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Dear Mr. President
“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” “People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?"
Donald trump. President of the United States.
Sigh.
Where to begin?
Mr. President, bibliographers estimate that about 65,000 books have been written about the American Civil War.
Tens of thousands of them explore the origins of the conflict and why it was not averted.
In addition, every High school student in American has a history course that explores the conflict.
In addition to that Colleges and Universities teach and do research on the subject every year. This involves thousands of educators, authors, historians both professional and amateur.
And they all study, discuss and debate the path to war.
My head may explode.
The idiocy has become unbearable 
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Re: Dear Mr. President
To be fair to Trump, this book did present a very favorable view of Andy Jackson
I think you're going to see a lot of different United States of America over the next three, four, or eight years. - President Donald J. Trump
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Re: Dear Mr. President
Goose wrote:
“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” “People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?"
Donald trump. President of the United States.
"People have been asking that question from the moment the war began. There are generations of answers. "
Judith Giesberg. Villanova University
Trump, when he thinks about events at all, is a proponent of the Great Man theory of history.
In Trump's mind, if there had just been a great man around, like Andrew Jackson (Or better yet, Donald Trump) he would have used his awesome deal making powers to avoid a war. I mean, how hard could it be? 
Of course, how a guy who can't even get a healthcare bill thru a Congress that his own party controls could have solved the slave issue, and prevented our greatest war is a mystery to me.
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Re: Dear Mr. President
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—
A class of fourth-grade students touring the White House on Monday had a chance encounter with Donald Trump and were able to answer several of his questions about the Civil War.
The students, on a field trip organized by their Bethesda, Maryland, elementary school, happened upon Trump outside the Oval Office and “cleared a lot of things up for him,” their teacher said.
After Trump invited the children into his office, the ten-year-olds briefed him on the causes of the Civil War, including slavery, states’ rights, and regional economic differences.
“It was really cool,” Tracy Klugian, who had done a diorama about the Civil War while in third grade, said. “Someday I’ll be able to tell my kids that I met the President and taught him about history.”
But another student in the class, Zach Dorrinson, said that his attempt to explain the abolitionist movement to Trump was not successful. “He needs to learn how to sit still for longer without fidgeting,” the fourth-grader said.
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