‘A Man of Violent Passions’: Andrew Jackson, Along With Trump, Is Back in the Oval Office

The return of the portrait of the seventh president is a reminder of certain resemblances between the two. Jackson’s demeanor, like Trump’s, appalled his predecessors.

Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons
John Wesley Jarvis's portrait of Andrew Jackson, circa 1819, detail. Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.

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