Donald Trump mentioned him a lot. He spoke about Andrew Jackson in his speeches, wrote about him on social media, and even in 2017 hanged his image in the Oval Office in the White House.
As the first president since Ronald Reagan and 14th overall – immediately, at the beginning of the first word – visited Jackson's tomb in Nashville. He vanished over it, said he was the president of the people, suggested that he himself was similar.
America may have found that the seventh president of the United States is his idol and hero, and the publicists and historians rapidly began to outrun each another in comparisons. "Is Donald Trump to Jackson of the 21st century?", "Trump as fresh Jackson?", "Is Trump to Andrew Jackson of modern times?" were asked.
When Trump first won the presidential election, Rudy Guliani, his advisor and erstwhile mayor of fresh York City, even said that "it's like Andrew Jackson's victory." due to the fact that he's decided the people's voice again.
That's why today, erstwhile Donald Trump goes crazy, erstwhile the planet – and even any Republicans – grabs its head without knowing its actions, let's see what and who it might have inspired.
With Andrew Jackson, who ruled America from 1829 to 1837, he shared almost 200 years. They're both populists, not many in U.S. history. Both with the opinion of rioters, unpredictable leaders and outsiders fighting the elite. They both survived the assassination attempt. Jackson was the first U.S. president to experience this (1835).
But let's focus on populism.
Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States, Trump's idol
Andrew Jackson is the first populist in the White House.
Before him, the Presidents of the United States were representatives of elite and aristocratic families. In 1828 he made a historical breach here. He competed as a Democratic candidate, during the run he organized rallies and meetings with voters in public places, which was previously unusual. He campaigned in a brutal and attacking way – a immense novelty for those times. And he presented himself as a man of the people. He mobilised masses and told them that power should belong to average citizens.
When he won, part of the country was glad that "the working people had yet been heard" and won with the aristocracy – it was a big, big, celebration with parades. But the another part of the country was terrified. Jackson was considered a threat to the country – like Donald Trump in the 21st century.
For the elite it was shock, shock, disbelief. Trump himself said it was like an earthquake to them. Jackson was referred to as deficiency of experience, competence and – unlike Trump – education. "A barbarian who could not compose a single grammatical conviction and could barely compose his own name" – this assessment about him, attributed to John Quincy Adams, erstwhile president and political opponent Jackson, went to history.
Then Jackson divided the country for the first time, but it was only the beginning. He ruled 2 terms and had for a reason the nickname "Old Hickory" (old nutcracker).
He was hard, uncompromising, had a populist kind of governance. The most crucial thing was to accomplish political goals and to show that he was a defender of the people from the elites. You could say, all the moves are allowed.
Jackson cast state offices with his loyal supporters. He ignored court decisions. More frequently than his predecessors utilized veto rights. He was besides accused of questioning the authority of state institutions and strengthening executive power.
Like Trump – he threatened and sometimes did what he wanted.
Andrew Jackson and his uncompromising actions
He's had a heated dispute with Congress. But his war with the Bank of the United States came to history. He felt that the central bank was an institution that favoured the wealthy elite, so he vetoed the bill to extend his license. The bank went bankrupt.
When South Carolina wanted to nullify national duties, it threatened to usage military force, which was then an different action by the president (the alleged Nullification Crisis).
In 1830, the controversial Indian Removal Act signaled the forced displacement of Indian tribes from their lands in the southeast to territories west of Mississippi. The way of forced relocation went to past as the teardrop Trail. This happened despite a different assessment by the ultimate Court – here we can callback Trump's fight with immigrants.
He besides had disputes with France about compensation for the confiscation of U.S. ships, threatened to confiscate its property, led to a break in diplomatic relations.
He besides utilized well-known rhetoric about sovereignty and protection of US interests. He was an expansionist who saw the U.S. at far greater borders. Of course, the situation was different, the US was just born, there was not even a civilian War yet.
He himself did not do much, but it is believed that his policy started later changes on the US map – he supported, for example, the Texas annexation, but did not want to war with Mexico, he acted cautiously (until the annexation yet took place in 1845).
And here's an example from before he became president. Jackson, a well-deserved military and general (national hero in combat with the British and Indians), in 1818 led a military expedition to defend the borders of Florida, which was then a Spanish colony. However, he entered Florida and attacked the Seminoli tribes there. His actions sparked an global scandal, but led to the US expanding by 1821.
And he became Florida's military commissioner.
Andrew Jackson as a grower from Hermitage
Today Trump fights the full planet and the neighbors differently. However, threats, populist rhetoric are similar.
Unlike him, however, Jackson had a difficult, mediocre childhood. The father died a fewer weeks before his birth, parent – erstwhile he was 14. erstwhile he was 13, he went to war for independency and even went into captivity. After the war, he started to rise. He graduated from law school. He became a prosecutor and justice of the Tennessee ultimate Court.
He besides became a grower, and slaves worked on his Hermitage plantation. It's hard to compare it to Trump's business work, but for those times Hermitage was 1 of the largest and most celebrated estates in the state of Tennessee.
There is his tomb that Donald Trump visited. According to him, Andrew Jackson was 1 of the large American presidents.
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