You may have heard that President Trump displayed an incredible lack of knowledge of U.S. history today when he wondered out loud why nobody has talked about why the Civil War had to happen. There were lots of good tweets about this today, and this one is as good as any:
Incidentally, “Why was there the Civil War?” is also one of the questions on the U.S. citizenship test. pic.twitter.com/wJosbOgJLB
— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) May 1, 2017