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President Trump decorated the Oval Office with a portrait of Andrew Jackson (the driving force behind the Trail of Tears) and visited Jackson’s plantation early in his presidency. Trump has carefully cultivated the Jackson connection deployed so offensively in this tweet. 
The resurgence of Jackson's reputation amongst MAGA Republicans is quite noticeable. Here's a sympathetic review of a new Jackson book published by Regnery (a leading conservative press) and written by a prof at conservative Hillsdale College. theamericanconservative.com/articles/andre…
One of Trump's leading hype men on Fox, Brian Kilmeade, recently wrote (or more likely, ghost wrote) an admiring book about Jackson.
Here's a thread unpacking one particularly horrifying moment in Kilmeade's interview about the book with The Federalist Radio Hour.
Here's an interesting piece on the conservative historian (but not Trump supporter) whose work has helped fuel the Jackson revival in the Republican Party. Tom Cotton and Steve Bannon are particular fans of his work. politico.com/magazine/story…
Here's an article detailing Steve Bannon's key role in imposing the Jackson branding on Trump's presidency. The fusion of populism and racism is not a bug. thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-p…
Here's the coverage of Trump's March 2017 visit to The Hermitage (Jackson's plantation). Trump praised Jackson as "the people's president" and said he was a "big fan." tennessean.com/story/news/pol…
Then in May 2017, Trump went on an extended riff about how much he identified with Andrew Jackson and how Jackson could have prevented the Civil War. nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/…
And here's a nerdy thread on the relationship between Donald Trump, those ubiquitous advertisements for gold on @FoxNews, and Andrew Jackson's monetary policy.
