Terry Glavin: Is Trump's lionization of James Polk an ominous sign of things to come?

Terry Glavin: Is Trump's lionization of James Polk an ominous sign of things to come?

Shortly after his January inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump made the peculiar decision to remove a portrait of the great Thomas Jefferson from the Oval Office and replace it with a portrait of James Polk. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and the third American president. Polk, the eleventh president, launched the Mexican-American War and expanded the reach of American sovereignty from what is now Texas …