WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump saluted and laid a wreath at the tomb of President Andrew Jackson in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday. But Trump’s honoring of the former president ― part of a pattern he has displayed ― is troubling to descendants of the Cherokee people, who were violently removed from their land by Jackson’s policies. Jackson was “an extremely dangerous man, and a destructive man, to not just Cherokee people, but Native people in general,” said Betsy Richards, an activist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The president has also hung Jackson’s portrait in the Oval Office, and his White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has compared Trump’s movement to “Jackson’s populism.”On the surface, it’s not hard to see why Jackson appeals to Trump and his supporters. “It was during the revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite.

Source: Huffington Post March 15, 2017 22:50 UTC