He was... any military historian will agree with that statement..
Trump spoke the truth about RE Lee being a great general. RE Lee was also a fine man.
Trump is right. Lee was a great general. Grant learned the hard way how to be a greater one.
We’re getting less than half a story here to make it look like he was defending the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee being a talented general and the reality that it was frustrating to President Lincoln and General Grant is simply a statement of historical fact.
Hell F yeah he was one of the greatest. Long live the Confederacy!
I always thought Lee was a fine General.
Rommel was a good generial. Giap was a good general.
Thinking Rommel was a good general does not make me a Nazi. Admiring the strategy of Mao or Giap doesn’t make me a commie. Appreciating the ruthlessness of Attila does not mean I want to burn down the next town over.
Some people need to think in thoughts a little deeper than spit on a hot sidewalk.
Obviously the word Context is not taught in Journalism School.
That being said, Robert E. Lee was one of the best General’s of his time. He was also a Man of Honor, another word not taught in Journalism School.
Lee was a great general. His greatest mistake was Gettysburg’s.
Grant was relentless, and in my humble opinion, a greater General than Lee. We as Americans our fools if we deny our past and history, good or bad, politically correct or not. We as Americans must understand our past to move forward. Trump proves once again that he is politically incorrect, but wise. We are all Americans, except those who will not accept the Constitution and rule of law......or should I just have said Democrats.
-PJ
He was.
Of course, Trump’s point is he was comparing himself to Grant. Not a perfect guy, but he knows how to fight and win - and that’s the guy you want.
Of course the unethical lowlife media deliberately tries to make Trump’s remarks look like something else.
Lee was brilliant, and they’re still “Fake News”
He is the history teacher. Oh my what a President
Trump’s making the point that it took Grant, a fighter, to beat Lee.
The story is famous.
“...I pressed upon him with all the earnestness I could command the immediate removal of Grant as an imperious necessity to sustain himself. As was his custom, he said but little...I appealed to Lincoln for his own sake to remove Grant at once...Lincoln remained silent for what seemed a very long time. He then gathered himself up in his chair and said in a tone of earnestness that I shall never forget: ‘I can’t spare this man; he fights.’”
To make liberals happy, you have to lie like them. Trump refuses to.
I agree.
It didnt help that Lincoln also had some truly awful, awful generals.
Lincoln replaced Gen. George McClella with Grant for one reason:
“He fights.”
Grant went on to lead the Union to victory against Lee. Anyone who has ever visited Appomattox Courthouse will know this, So Trump’s comments are historically accurate. And in their failed effort to make Trump look like a fool, the mainstream “reporters” once again have displayed their own insipid foolishness.
Yes, as controversial as it may be, Grant was a great general.
Stonewall.