Presidential Message on the Birthday of President Andrew Jackson, 2025
www.whitehouse.gov
Today, we celebrate the birthday of our seventh Commander-in-Chief, Andrew Jackson, “the People’s President.” Throughout his life, Andrew Jackson was a

Trump has a weird hard on for Jackson, best guess is because of this story:

https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll33/id/73/

(in fairness, the story is kind of badass):

“On January 30, 1835, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, produced two pistols and fired upon Andrew Jackson on the steps of the United States Capitol. Both pistols misfired and an outraged Jackson beat Lawrence with his walking cane. Lawrence was tried for attempted murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was committed to a number of institutions until his death in 1861.”

  • countrypunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    “My Administration is proudly upholding the vision of President Jackson’s historic movement by reining in unwieldy government spending, advancing a strong manufacturing base, and restoring a Government that answers to the American People.”

    Does that vision include the trail of tears and genocide that they conviently forgot to mention he was responsible for?

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Or, you know, brutally beating his slaves.

      https://www.history.com/news/andrew-jackson-presidency-controversial-legacy

      "During his lifetime (1767-1845), Jackson went from poverty to wealth because he personally embraced the institution of slavery. Enslaved workers grew his cotton, built and tended his house and helped him gain a social foothold in Southern society. Jackson owned as many as 161 enslaved people, buying and selling them, using their labor to build his fortune and even bringing them to the White House to work for him.

      Records show he beat his enslaved workers, including doling out a brutal public whipping to a woman he felt had been “putting on airs.” And when any of them ran away, he pursued them and put them in chains when they were recovered. In an 1804 newspaper advertisement for a 30-year-old runaway named Tom, he offered an extra $10 for every 100 lashes doled out to the escapee."