Remember when Trump claimed the US Civil War could’ve been ‘negotiated’?

Donald Trump has really run his mouth in past year and made some pretty crazy blunders. His comments about the Civil War made us wonder if he failed history class in school! Click on to read all about it!

They say those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. They also say history is first repeated as a tragedy, and then as a farce. However, ignorance can be bliss. If you don’t believe us, just ask Donald Trump.

Three years after the events of the January 6 Capitol Assault, in which violence broke out for the first time in the US Congress, Trump gave his insight about the best way to deal with a nation divided.

“The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible — but so fascinating,” Trump said during a campaign event, as quoted by Business Insider.

“So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. All the people died, so many people died,” the former US President added.

Trump’s historical digression went on, arguing that Abraham Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, should’ve done more to avoid the bloodshed.

Yale University history professor David Blight criticized Trump’s comments on The Washington Post, labeling them as “historically ignorant” and “elementary school nonsense”.

Former Republican Representative Liz Cheney lambasted Trump, according to The Hill: “Which part of the Civil War ‘could have been negotiated’? The slavery part? The secession part? Whether Lincoln should have preserved the Union?”

“Question for members of the GOP—the party of Lincoln—who have endorsed Donald Trump: How can you possibly defend this?” pointed out Cheney.

The former US President isn’t the only Republican talking about the Civil War. CNN highlights that Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, Trump’s rival in the primaries, had to backtrack after she commented about what ignited the conflict.

Haley was accused of avoiding talking about slavery. According to CNN, the politician argued that she didn’t mention it because “it goes without saying” that it was one of the causes of the Civil War.

The US Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865, with a death toll north of 620,000 casualties. It was one of the defining moments of US history.

Many experts argue that negotiation was nigh impossible, given the deep fractures dividing US society in the decades before the Civil War.

In the heart of the conflict was the question of slavery, with many of the Southern states that made up the Confederacy stating it so in their official proclamations to secede from the union.

The legacy of the US Civil War, however, has been a matter of discussion and controversy pretty much since Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

In the past decades, symbols and monuments of the Confederacy, such as flags and statues, have been under the scrutiny of a more critical view, one that questions the legacy of secessionists and slaveholders.

With the image of confederate flags disrupting the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the civil war seems far from becoming irrelevant.

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