The Jackson Portrait: Did President Trump Know About 2020 All Along?

Topic: Perspective

I have always felt that some of the neatest factoids and stories from The Bible are those describing historic events that are often talked about outside of churches and studies, especially those in which a large chunk of time elapsed between two points in fulfillment. Take the kingdoms prophesied to come by Daniel, or maybe the story of Alexander the Great’s Destruction of Tyre, which was prophesied in Ezekiel, as a couple prominent examples.

History remains an immaculate guide for the present and future and is a living, breathing study for us to draw from. In stunning fashion, yet another indirect fulfillment of a previously foreshadowed saga has come to pass with the reemergence of Donald Trump as President. Throughout President Trump’s first term, 2017-2021, he displayed a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Immediately, the political grievance industry took exception to this, pointing out Jackson’s treatment of Native Americans, his slave ownership, and of course, the fact that he was a Democrat, as if these were the true reasons the portrait found prominence in the President’s office.

Years ago, Newt Gingrich expressed his belief that a unique connection between Jackson and Trump was forged in the way both campaigned against a corrupted political bureaucracy run by the self-important elites of their times. Trump made it clear he felt a bond with Jackson over his appeal to the forgotten men and women of America, and in doing so, created a new movement that overran the plans of the political creatures who brought the country to the brink of destruction. In short, both men were something new to the political scene and forever altered the presidency moving forward.

Jackson biographer Jon Meacham writes: "Jackson believed the country was being controlled by a kind of congressional-financial-bureaucratic complex in which the needs and concerns of the unconnected were secondary to those who were on the inside." This is comparable to Trump's view that a "deep state" of elitist sympathizers is embedded in the federal bureaucracy and is eager to destroy his presidency and thwart his agenda. He has pledged to root them out, just as Jackson confronted his own adversaries.

That is what we were led to believe as the explanation for Trump’s affinity for Jackson. Then, the crisis of 2020 emerged, and that year’s election was rigged before our eyes, with no stone left unturned as relates to the enormity of the public manipulation that took place. In 2023, I wrote a piece in these pages dubbed “2024 is the new 1828” – that piece outlined the stunning similarities developing between Jackson and Trump that we knew nothing of prior to the Corrupt Bargain of 2020, which used a fabricated health crisis as cover for forcing the Biden administration upon a nation that wanted to turn its back on that coalition just four short years before.

For some background, Jackson, who in 1828 would become the first Democrat presidential nominee, first ran against John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay for the open presidency in 1824. He won the most popular and electoral votes, but falling short of a majority of electoral votes, was shafted in a contingent election in the U.S. House thanks to an arrangement between Clay and Adams that gave the presidency to the latter. In turn, Clay became Adams’s Secretary of State. An excerpt from my 2023 piece:

Since no candidate achieved an electoral majority, the U.S. House took up the task of electing the next president in keeping with the 12^th Amendment. Clay was dropped from consideration, leaving Adams, Jackson, and Crawford in the House’s contingent election, held on February 9, 1825. Each of the 24 states’ congressional delegations were given one vote each.

Jackson, having won not only the popular vote, but the most electoral votes, expected the House to choose him as the winner and thereby confirm the choice of the electorate. However, the Kentuckian Clay, a shrewd political operator, or career politician, persuaded delegates of the three states he carried (Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri) to throw their support behind Adams, while three delegations from Jackson-won states (Maryland, Illinois, and Louisiana) did the same.

I correctly predicted in 2024 that Trump would channel Jackson’s rage against the machine after what history now refers to as the Corrupt Bargain of 1824, even though many in polite Republican society were begging him to move on from 2020. Wisely, Trump never let go of his belief that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and by extension, from the forgotten men and women of the United States. Trump, like Jackson, successfully harnessed the animosity of the people and to this day, even while back in the White House, is backed by a majority of Americans who agree with him about 2020, but relish the strengthening possibility that that corrupt bargain may have doomed Democrats for a generation.

President Trump, beginning in the early stages of the COVID hoax and extending to and beyond Election Night 2020, maintained the Democrats would try to steal the election. My question, now that Andrew Jackson’s portrait once again resides in the Oval Office, is a simple one.

Did Trump know all along that he would overcome a stolen election and return to vanquish the elites who foisted their own corrupt bargain upon the nation?

Is that the true reason for the Jackson portrait?

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Seth Keshel, MBA, is a former Army Captain of Military Intelligence and Afghanistan veteran. His analytical method of election forecasting and analytics is known worldwide, and he has been commended by President Donald J. Trump for his work in the field.