"Why was there a Civil War?"

So asked our president recently, adding “Why could that one not be worked out?” Yes, staggering ignorance on both the historical and moral planes, topped only by his assertion that Andrew Jackson “was really angry” about the Civil War, the former President (evidently) having said: “There’s no reason for this.”

Actually, there’s no reason Jackson would have said anything about the Civil War, having died sixteen years prior to its start.

(Ladies and gentlemen: the Trump Administration.)

BILL