TRUMP SUCKS UP TO THE RACISTS

Bomber Trump loves the Godfather of the Confederacy, President Andrew Jackson, hanging a portrait of Jackson in The Oval Office, and saluting Jackson's rotting corpse at The Hermitage. So is it any wonder that Trump is opposed to bringing down statues of Confederate 'heroes', most of which were erected during times of racial tension in the USA.

Posing as a lover of history, culture and beauty is ludicrous and implausible for someone most famous—before the 2016 election campaign—for hosting a reality TV program and erecting vulgar monuments to his own wealth and celebrity.

Moreover, by equating Washington and Jefferson, leaders of one of the great liberating struggles of mankind, the American Revolution, with the military leadership of the Confederacy, a slaveowners’ rebellion, Trump demonstrates that he knows nothing about American history.

...The vast majority of Confederate memorials were erected, not in the aftermath of the Civil War itself, but during the era of the imposition of Jim Crow segregation, from 1895 to 1930, and later during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. In both periods, they were directed against demands for equal political and civil rights for African Americans, the descendants of the slaves freed by the Civil War.

[source : Trump deepens appeal to fascist right with defense of Confederate monuments, WSWS, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/18/char-a18.html, 18th August 2017]