Douglas Brinkley: ‘Idiotic’ What Trump Said About Andrew Jackson

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BRINKLEY: "I can’t believe the media rollout of Donald Trump over the last 24 hours, the confusion about Andrew Jackson and getting people — giving a non-history lesson of — it was idiotic what he said about Jackson. But more to the point — that could be another Trump misstatement — the way he’s praising the North Korean dictator right now, it’s nauseating to me when you really know what that man does to human lives, the squelching of the whole human rights policy of the United States since FDR till today, willy-nilly praising the strong man of the Philippines, on and on. And he seems to be unhinged in a way that’s — I’m starting to find it a little bit frightening. I’ve had for a while but over the weekend I just had enough."