… Trump opposes placing Harriet Tubman on $20 note

The Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said he opposes plans to replace former president Andrew Jackson with anti-slavery campaigner Harriet Tubman on the face of the $20 bill, telling NBC’s Today Show the move was an act of “pure political correctness”. Trump said he would prefer to leave Jackson on the bill and place […]

The Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said he opposes plans to replace former president Andrew Jackson with anti-slavery campaigner Harriet Tubman on the face of the $20 bill, telling NBC’s Today Show the move was an act of “pure political correctness”.
Trump said he would prefer to leave Jackson on the bill and place Tubman’s image on another denomination. “Maybe we do the $2 bill or we do another bill,” he said.
He said Tubman, who helped free more than 300 slaves and died in 1913, was “fantastic”, but that Jackson has “been on the bill for many, many years” and “really represented somebody that really was very important to this country”.

Culled from the guardian.co.uk