All posts tagged "Andrew Jackson"

A fiery debate broke out on a CNN panel after a Trump loyalist argued whose face belongs on money.

Members of a panel hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip reacted to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing that the Trump administration does not plan to put Harriet Tubman's face on the $20 bill. The Obama administration first revealed plans to immortalize the historical figure, who led slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad, and the Biden administration revived those plans.

"Look, you put faces on money to commemorate American icons," Trump loyalist Brianna Lyman said. "There are only a limited number of bills, one, two, five, ten, 20, 100, fifty, so there has to be a very selective process."...

President Donald Trump has been working at breakneck speed to eliminate federal programs, prompting an opinion columnist with The Washington Post to ponder, "Is there anything Trump won't destroy?"

Columnist Dana Milbank used the metaphor of Trump wielding an ax to chop down not only a 200-year-old magnolia tree at the White House, but the very Constitution on which the United States was founded.

Trump announced this week that he was getting rid of the tree planted by Andrew Jackson because, he wrote, it had become “a very dangerous safety hazard.” Milbank conceded that the explanation was "plausible," but what was Trump's justification for paving the storied Rose Garden into a “stone surface”?...