Some social media users shared the quote in early 2025 to express dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump's second administration.

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

but the prosecution of Jefferson Davis for treason would surely have taken the 19th-century title—if it had happened. The ex-Confederate president was released 150 years ago this month on $ ...

When the election of 1800 produced no clear winner, the House of Representatives decided the outcome. It voted for Thomas Jefferson as president and Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson called his ...