The Worst Thing Trump Did on 8/4/25

For the record, the Confederates were the villain.  They seceded from the Union and murdered hundreds of thousands of American citizens, so that the wealthiest white Southerners could keep black people as slaves.

And yet, Trump shows us he would have been rooting for the South during the Civil War.

The Trump Administration has ordered the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to be reinstalled in Washington, DC.  

Pike's statue was a long point of contention, with people wanting it removed in the 1990s.  Finally, in 2020, the citizens of the city took matters into their own hands and ripped the statue down.  I do not condone violence and vandalism, but I sure as heck wouldn't be trying to get the statue put back up.

And Pike was a horrible general.  Go look for yourself, but he was bad. The Freemasons had requested the statue be built as Pike was a longtime leader of their organization (tells you about them), but the deal was that he had to be portrayed in civilian clothes, which he was.  Regardless, this would be like having a statue of Himmler installed in the middle of New York City, in civilian clothes, because he was a huge fan of Broadway.

Confederates suck, Nazis suck, Trump sucks.