Trump’s budget proposes to abolish the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, one of the world’s leading think-tanks on global affairs.

While Trump loves Andrew Jackson, he is cool to Woodrow Wilson, father of the League of Nations. “Does that sound familiar to you? I wonder why they keep talking about Trump and Jackson, Jackson and Trump.

“Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite,” Trump said in Nashville. He also owned slaves and brutally displaced native Americans. Jackson did see a corrupt system, sought a new order and took on the banks. Unlike Trump, he believed in public service. Jackson was a decorated general who won the battle of New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812, with a long career in government as jurist and senator. There was Trump, the populist taking on the establishment, like Jackson in the 1830s. Instead, Trump pointedly attended a ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jackson, America’s seventh president, in Nashville. National Capital Region's Top Employers.