The Great Negotiator Strikes Again

On the third anniversary of the white nationalist insurrection, Donald Trump talked about another insurrection, the Civil War. Trump wondered why it couldn’t have been negotiated.

Trump said, “I’m so attracted to seeing it,. So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated to be honest with you. … I was reading something and I said, ‘This is something that could have been negotiated … that was a that was a tough one for our country… If you negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was … but that would have been OK.”

Trump said if the Civil War was negotiated, then you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was, who Trump only recently found out was a Republican. The thing is, Donald… just because you suck at history doesn’t mean everyone else sucks at it.

Donald Trump who negotiated the withdrawal of Afghanistan so that the Taliban could retake the nation after all of their prisoners were released thinks the Civil War could have been negotiated.

Donald Trump, who called Putin a genius for invading Ukraine, thinks we could have negotiated the Civil War.

Donald Trump, Who negotiated a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria that left our Kurdish allies vulnerable to an attack by Turkey, which slaughtered thousands, thinks we could have negotiated the Civil War.

Donald Trump, who negotiated losing $25 million to former Trump University students he grifted wonders why the Civil War wasn’t negotiated.

Donald Trump, who shut the government down for 35 days and then lost the negotiation to Nancy Pelosi with none of his demands being met wonders why the Civil War wasn’t negotiated.

Donald Trump tells us he’s a great negotiator and the best deal maker didn’t even write his own book, Art of the Deal.

Perhaps Trump is fascinated with the Civil War because just like all those insurrectionists who fought for the Confederacy, he too is unqualified to serve in any government office according to the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. And that’s another example of how fucked up this nation is, or at least the southern part. We disqualify thousands of insurrectionists from ever serving in office again but build statues, and name schools, streets, and military bases in their honor.

If Donald Trump had negotiated to avoid a Civil War, there’d probably be a statue in Washington, D.C. today of the Dukes of Hazard and Paula Deen. After all, he called Jan. 6 insurrectionists “patriots” on Saturday while calling immigrants “terrorists” and “gang members.”

Donald Trump, who once said the Russian war in Afghanistan started because Afghanistan invaded the U.S.S.R., sucks at history. Forget about him knowing what happened 160 years ago, he can’t remember what happened three years ago when this nation was attacked by his insurrectionist goon squad.

Trump couldn’t have negotiated a peaceful resolution that would have prevented the Civil War. He couldn’t even get his goons not to attack on January 6, or to stop their attack. If anything, it was all his fault and he sent the mob of white nationalist terrorists.

Trump thinks we may not remember Abraham Lincoln if the Civil War didn’t happen, but most historians rank Lincoln as our very best president because he kept the nation together and ended slavery. Those same historians consistently rank Donald Trump among our five worst, which I think is generous and very unfair to James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren Harding, and Franklin Pierce. Personally, I think the only president who refused to leave office peacefully and ordered an attack against his own nation so he could remain in power should rank dead fucking last.

What scares me about this nation is the basic understanding of history among my fellow countrymen. Will they forget the disastrous four years Trump was in the White House (sic)? Will they forget Donald Trump is a national security risk? Will they forget that Trump ordered white nationalist terrorists to attack our nation to install him as an unelected dictator?

People who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it, and that scares the hell out of me.

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