Sounds like The Donald was watching a history channel special and wanted to show the interviewer his deep knowledge on the subject.

Top article on reddit politics. Liberals always have to take it too far.

While there's a lot of hysteria in that statement that's over the line, he in the last 24 hours states the Civil War could have been stopped by a single man and also called the constitution Archaic and a big problem for the US and his regime. I don't think we're at the steps of a revolution but some scary rhetoric coming from the current whitehouse for sure. Who knows the long term effects of eroding checks and balances, i shook my head when i saw so called conservatives cheering at the nuclear option to get in Gorsuch. Pretty short sighted when there's a chance that the next 2-3 appointments could be flaming liberals.

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I wouldn't be too worried about trump staging a coup. It would be on par with the turkey attempt. Except he would be on twitter talking about it every step of the way.

IDK he's not the type of guy to telegraph his moves, not like BARACK OBAMA and HILLARY CLINTON. O wait, is he now doing everything he criticized the "Founders of ISIS" for and calling everything he claimed would be easy "a lot harder than i thought"..... yeah nvm then.

Liberal bedwetters still don't understand how to interpret Trump... he has basically no filter, he says whatever comes to mind at the time. One day he loves the Constitution, the next day he'll criticize it because he can't get legislation through. If this was a normal president I might actually be worried.

the filibuster has become an overpotent and overused tool of obstruction that contributes a lot to the washington gridlock.
this point aside, it's very likely that the next supreme court judges to be replaced will be ginsburg, breyer and/or kennedy. so say trump gets elected out of office in 2020 and replaced by a democratic president - even then chances are high that this president will only replace liberal judges and not really be able to tip the balance of the court. should one of them die or be forced to resign before the end of trumps term, which isnt super unlikely either, trump could replace a liberal or centrist judge with a conservative and tip the balance to the right.

so essentially, republicans have the "strategic upper hand" on supreme court nominations for the forseeable future. Imho, ginsburg and breyer speculated that clinton would win and planned on resigning during her term. instead of resigning when they could during obama's tenure, they took a gamble and it backfired spectacularly.

oh god....just when i thought that the most recent bullshit about the "ok sign" being a sign for white supremacists wasnt bad enough

Reddit is 90% Marxist. SAD!

Donnie's doubling down on the Andrew Jackson derp.

"President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/859209801175269376