You want irony?

[malaise]

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-12-26/historic-white-house-jackson-magnolia-tree-to-be-cut-down
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An iconic tree on the west side of the White House is down to its last days. The historic Jackson Magnolia tree, which has been standing in its place since the 1800s, is scheduled to be cut down later this week.

The tree, too damaged and decayed to remain, is the oldest on the White House grounds. The towering magnolia extends from the ground floor, past the front windows of the State Dining Room on the first floor and beyond the second-level executive residence, CNN reported.

President Andrew Jackson brought the tree, which is said to be planted for his wife, Rachel, who died shortly after the 1828 election, to the White House from Tennessee in the 1820s.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/may/02/whats-up-with-donald-trump-andrew-jackson/
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If it were possible to have a bromance across the centuries, Presidents Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump would almost certainly qualify.

Repeatedly over the past year, Trump has invoked and praised his predecessor in the White House, who served from 1829 to 1837. In addition to various mentions in remarks and on Twitter, Trump placed a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office and made a pilgrimage to the late president’s tomb in Nashville less than two months after being sworn in.

Then there's this from n2doc's cartoons his morning


Groper Don the Con is rotten to the core

[kentuck]

1. History speaks to us down thru the ages.

Strange.

[malaise]

2. The Navajos have the last laugh

although I think the real last laugh will be the day America collectively tells this racist, fascist, short- fingered vulgarian 'You're Fired'!

[Motley13]

3. It was ok until the moron moved in, he poisons everything around him

I think seeds of the tree have been preserved

[malaise]

4. Well Jackson was his racist mentor

This is too good

[Martin Eden]

5. Excerpts from the article:

But Trump’s seeming fondness for Jackson comes at something of a low reputational ebb -- a historical moment when many Americans have begun to focus on the darker side of Jackson’s record.

High on this list are his personal history as a slaveholder and his implementation, as president, of a policy of "Indian removal" from eastern lands that culminated in the "Trail of Tears," which led to the deaths of an estimated 5,000 Cherokees.

In recent years, "Jackson's offenses against Indians and blacks and his propensity for personal gun violence have overshadowed his economic policies among liberals and progressives," Watson said.

"The Trump endorsement of Jackson follows from his very limited understanding of Jackson as a man of action," Cheek said. "He has no knowledge of the misdeeds of Jackson that are central to a complete understanding of his political career."

Seems to me the misdeeds of Andrew Jackson's darker side are more likely to be features than flaws to tRump.

[malaise]

6. Both are racist scumbags n/t