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-- 2015 --
Undated: What are the chances of a civil war breaking out if Donald Trump becomes President and continues to express and act on his views according to his political campaign? What are the chances of Trump losing or winning the civil war?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-chances-of-a-civil-war-breaking-out-if-Donald-Trump-becomes-President-and-continues-to-express-and-act-on-his-views-according-to-his-political-campaign-What-are-the-chances-of-Trump-losing-or-winning-the-civil-war
November 24: When Donald J. Trump bought a fixer-upper golf club on Lowes Island ... for $13 million in 2009, he poured millions more into reconfiguring its two courses ... installing a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”
“Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ”
[Unfortunately for Mr. trump, there were no casualties at that spot, and the river never did turn red].
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html?_r=2
-- 2017 --
May 1: President Trump during an interview that airs Monday questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.
"I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn't have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart," Trump said during an interview with the Washington Examiner's Salena Zito.
"He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, 'There's no reason for this.'"
Jackson, the nation's seventh president, died in 1845. The Civil War began in 1861.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331349-trump-why-was-there-the-civil-war
May 1:
So could have Trump or Jackson or some other tactful negotiator “worked out” the North-South divides and prevented the Civil War? Historians say it’s unlikely.
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/05/01/donald-trump-wants-to-know-why-the-civil-war-could-not-have-been-worked-out-heres-why
August 14: Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?” The more relevant question after Charlottesville—and other deadly episodes in Ferguson, Charleston, Dallas, St. Paul, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, and Alexandria—is where the United States is headed. How fragile is the Union, our republic, and a country that has long been considered the world’s most stable democracy? The dangers are now bigger than the collective episodes of violence. “The radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century,” the Southern Poverty Law Center reported in February. The organization documents more than nine hundred active (and growing) hate groups in the United States.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war
August 17:
"How would they know that? Were they there?" Trump challenged local historians in 2015
August 18: Trump has an interesting history with the Civil War
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-civil-war-2017-8
August 24: Roger Stone: Trump Impeachment Would Lead to Civil War
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/24/roger-stone-tmz-president-trump-impeachment-would-lead-civil-war-us
October 26: The GOP civil war is bigger than Trump. A new study shows deep fissures on policy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?utm_term=.e30ff349d8cb
October 31: Trump chief of staff's Civil War comment sparks criticism
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s comment that the U.S. Civil War was sparked by a lack of “compromise” drew criticism and reignited a debate over Confederate monuments and the role of slavery.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-kelly/trump-chief-of-staffs-civil-war-comment-sparks-criticism-idUSKBN1D01WF
October 31: The White House defended Tuesday Chief of Staff John Kelly’s remarks that the Civil War happened because of “the lack of an ability to compromise” and that Confederate general Robert E. Lee was an “honorable man.”
Speaking at the daily press briefing, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders reiterated previous defenses of historical figures from the Confederacy which came up after President Trump made similar points in August.
“All of our leaders have flaws,” Sanders told reporters. “That doesn’t diminish their contributions to our country, and it certainly can’t erase them from our history. General Kelly was simply making the point that just because history isn’t perfect, it doesn’t mean it’s not our history.”
http://time.com/5004382/john-kelly-white-house-civil-war/
November 4: Trump's week: Russia probe, Civil War history lesson, and more
From the indictments of ex-Trump aides to the president's double standards on attacks, Al Jazeera highlights the key events the White House faced this week.
https://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/americas/2017/11/trump-week-russia-probe-civil-war-history-lesson-171104162155621.html
-- 2018 --
January 12: Donald Trump's start looks like 'civil war' warns former German MP ...
A FORMER German politician who worked alongside Angela Merkel has warned that the US appears to be on the verge of collapse under Donald Trump.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/753498/Washington-not-supporting-Donald-Trump-civil-war-German-MP-warns-Merkel-Putin
March 13: The Trump administration keeps getting its Civil War history wrong
Jeff Sessions recently compared California’s sanctuary policies to Confederate secession. It didn’t go over well.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/13/17101504/civil-war-history-trump-adminsitration-jeff-sessions
August 20: 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned
The years leading up to 1861 saw polarised politics, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Sound familiar? One of the US’s foremost historians reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now
For historians, Trump has been the gift that keeps on giving. His ignorance of American history, his flouting of political and constitutional traditions, his embrace of racist ideas and groups, his egregious uses of fear, his own party’s moral bankruptcy in its inability to confront him, have forced the media to endlessly ask historians for help.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/20/civil-war-american-history-trump
September 19: Donald Trump Says ‘You Can Understand’ Civil War and It Wasn’t As Bad as George W. Bush Invading Middle East
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-civil-war-bush-middle-east-1129522
October 12: Trump gives Civil War history at Ohio rally, describing Lee, Grant as ‘great’ generals
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/12/donald-trump-talks-civil-war-ulysses-grant-robert-lee-ohio-rally/1619764002/
October 14: NBC News issues correction after misquoting Trump remark about Civil War general
"CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as 'incredible' at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump's remark," NBC News' Twitter account said, along with a longer clip offering further context.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nbc-news-issues-correction-after-misquoting-trump-remark-about-civil-war-general
October 28: Civil War Era Site Camp Nelson Designated as a National Monument
Initially established as a Union Army supply depot and hospital, Camp Nelson became a key emancipation site and refugee camp for African American soldiers and their families during the Civil War.
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/civil-war-era-site-camp-nelson-designated-national-monument
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