Altogether fitting and proper? Trump repeatedly compares himself to Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, is not on the ballot this fall
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Four score and seven years from now, the mystic chords of memory may recall the way Donald Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, lauded him one day and lambasted him the next. It is altogether fitting and proper that our descendants would examine why the 45th president, who hopes to be the 47th, keeps mentioning the 16th.
“This is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite president of all time, better than Lincoln, better than Washington,” Trump said in a video introducing “Trump digital trading cards” in December 2022, shortly after announcing his third run for the presidency.
The Republican has often raised the Great Emancipator's name and compared himself or others to him — he's been treated worse than Lincoln, he's done more for Blacks than anyone since Lincoln, and so on. It has become a recurring refrain in Trump’s unique brand of oratory, the meandering stream of random cultural references, dire warnings about the dangers of electing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, personal grievances and self-promoting stories that he’s come to describe as “the weave.”
In California on Oct. 13, Trump invoked Lincoln in castigating Harris.
