May 6, 2017 1 min read

The so-called president of the United States once again proved that he couldn’t get past the first round of the history category of the TV show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”

He asked why there was a U.S. Civil War, and said that our fine President Andrew Jackson should have done more to prevent it. Never mind that President Jackson, who owned many slaves, passed away 16 years before the war started.

Maybe Donald Trump should have used his pal, slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass, for a lifeline to answer that question. That would be the same Frederick Douglass who passed away in the 19th century and whom the horrifyingly historically challenged charlatan-in-chief spoke of as if he were still with us.

And then he can get his Italian opera buddy, Luciano Pavarotti, who died 10 years ago, to perform a Ouija board operatic solo called “All the president’s best friends have long pasta way.”

Vin Morabito

Scranton