Tempmanoa, I knew exactly what Trump was saying when I read the story.  Readers with little or no knowledge of US history, perhaps liberals, took Trump’s not-so-eloquent use of the English language and twisted it to fit their anti-Trump agendas.  I also believe that if the AP journalist had not twisted Trump’s comments and editorialized the story to suggest that Trump did not know Jackson died 16 years before the Civil War, most negative commenters would not have given the story a second look.  The story’s title should have been “AP makes puzzling claim about what Trump said about Jackson, Civil War.”