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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T20:46:48.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Jesse Jackson",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Republican Party",
    "Republicans",
    "United States",
    "Black Americans",
    "Civil Rights",
    "African-Americans",
    "account",
    "tribute post",
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  "textContent": "Donald Trump has gone on a posting binge following the death of civil rights activist and Democratic politician Jesse Jackson, even though Jackson opposed and criticized Trump.\n\nTrump posted 12 photos of himself and Jackson from decades ago on his Truth Social account after he made a hollow tribute post to the late civil rights Tuesday morning, criticizing former President Barack Obama and Democrats in the process. The photos, some of which are in black and white, depict the two standing together at various events decades ago.\n\nBut Jackson and Trump did not get along in recent years. Jackson criticized Trump for fueling the birther movement that pushed the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, urging Black voters in 2016 not to vote for Trump. His criticism continued during Trump’s first term, as he attacked Trump’s efforts to build a border wall with Mexico and called his immigration policies “Germanesque.”\n\nJackson pulled back from political activism in recent years due to health issues, but in an August 2023 interview with David Masciotra for _The New Republic_ , he said that “Trump wants to pull us back into white supremacy.” In May 2024, he would defend students protesting the Israeli massacre of Gaza in a column for the _Chicago Maroon_. All of this contradicts the image that Trump is trying to portray of Jackson as someone he saw eye-to-eye with.\n\nEven the issues Jackson championed as a left-wing presidential candidate in the 1980s are at odds with Trump: universal health care, tuition-free community and state colleges, paid family leave, subsidized childcare, and raising the minimum wage to a living wage. His message was much closer to that of Senator Bernie Sanders (whom Jackson endorsed in 2020), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani than it ever was to Trump, no matter how many pictures Trump posts.",
  "title": "Trump Posts Old Photos With Jesse Jackson in Bid to Rewrite History"
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