Here are some photos of Donald Trump being interviewed by Fox News at the Lincoln Memorial over the weekend. I forgot that this happened, but it did and of course Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln.
After admitting US coronavirus deaths could hit 90,000, President Donald Trump is bemoaning his own plight — complaining that he has been treated worse by the press than Abraham Lincoln. Trump’s comments, at the memorial in Washington to a president assassinated after emancipating the slaves during the Civil War, are likely to further polarize the raging politics of a current crisis that is stretching national unity.
“I am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen,” Trump said at the Fox News town hall Sunday night.
“The closest would be that gentleman right up there,” Trump said, pointing to the 16th President’s statue. “They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.”
I still can’t believe this happened. And I can’t believe that most people forgot that it happened because there are like fifty WORSE stories, all of which happened in the past 48 hours. This political timeline continues to be the worst. Say what you will about Richard Nixon (for real), but even Nixon respected the memory of Lincoln too much to ever say anything remotely like this. Nixon went to the Lincoln Memorial to pray and to speak to Lincoln.
So what other stories are there? Take your pick. Donald Trump hates Fox News now and the Trumps are betting on OANN to take down Fox. Trump’s pick for his new intelligence chief, John Ratcliffe, is following a ton of QAnon and 9/11 Truther accounts on social media. Trump staffers keep floating the “theory” that Covid-19 was created in a Chinese lab. And the Trump Administration’s internal numbers on the virus infection rate are startling.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Lincoln was assassinated ffs. What’s worse than that?
I said the other day that he probably doesn’t even know that. He’s knows nothing about history.
Assassinated after a Civil War. Pretty sure those southern newspaper editors were not very complimentary leading up to and through the war.
If only we were so lucky for you to be treated worse than Lincoln, you makeup-caked murderer.
Have you seen the ad that @projectLincoln * is airing? It was apparently on during Huckster Carlson’s show…and it had #TangerineTwitler up ALL night rage tweeting. The ad is titled “Mourning in America”. Here is the link to it’s twitter page, if allowed (if not, please remove, and Google it by the title) : https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1257348720988913666
*what I DON”T get though, is this group is run by George Conway, who is KryptKeeper Kelly Ann’s husband, and I’m sure I read he was part of that Federalist group…? Unless they feel that Twitler’s gone “rogue” with all this “power” going to his head, and they want him out (now that they’ve packed the courts with unqualified judges…?).
I watched this video in bed this morning and it was a perfect perfect perfect video capturing just what a (in his words) loser excuse for a president he is. Just the worst. So bad. Very bad. Big loser.
I posted the ad On CB yesterday. I invite all here to look up all the ads Project Lincoln has run against trump. They are savage.
The Lincoln Project consists of George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson, and to answer your question, yes they despise trump. Their reasons for despising him may be different from ours or they may overlap in many instances. Whatever, I am happy to see that they are doing this, because their ads are the most devastating I’ve seen. They also drive trump even more insane than he already is-he has a crazed tweetstorm anytime an ad runs.
PS on at least one occasion George has retweeted something that shaded Kellyanne.
Oh he shades her ALL the time. What I don’t get is that they are STILL married. I’ve heard they don’t live together, but they are STILL married. I don’t trust either one of them, to be honest.
Gotta wonder if they’re trying to pull a Carvel/Matalin and work both sides against the middle, politically. Some are even saying SHE wrote that book as “Anonymous”.
Do not trust George Conway as far as you can throw him and Kellyanne combined. True, he does not support Trump but he is a Republican Party operative. When Trump’s time is over, both Conways will be cosying up to whichever Republican seems most viable to them. George is keeping all options open for them. This is what they both do for a living
They’re “low taxes” Republicans. They see the threat that Trump poses to our country. Yes, when this walking disaster is removed, we’ll go back to disagreeing with the Lincoln Project people about policy details. But for now, they correctly see that Trump is the biggest threat to the American people and he needs to go. It’s a truth that crosses party lines, as it should. Their ads are devastating and effective.
We know that in normal times we are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but in the current hellscape we have a common enemy. They’ve all stated they’re voting for and donating to Biden, no Third Party nonsense. Once trump is gone I’m sure we’ll be back to our opposing sides.
Not yet you’re not.
Because really, no matter how bad things are getting for the world and his own citizens, there’s still plenty of time to bemoan how bad HE’S got it.
It’s going to be sickening to see how low Fox News is going to stoop to get back in his good graces. I didn’t think they could be any farther up his ass than they already are, but they’ll do pretty much anything to stay in the lunatic fringe good graces.
Oh, Boo-bloody-hoo. Act like an arse and people will treat you like an arse. Be a twat, and people will mock, ridicule, criticise, denigrate and hate you. How has he not yet worked this out? What a moron.
Hasn’t this happened before? Maybe not the direct comparison made by trump out loud but he’s been bitching about “presidential harassment” this whole time and people have always been like “um, have you heard of President Lincoln?” I’m not phased one bit by this particular gaffe but I do have my fingers crossed it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now that he’s said those stupid, disrespectful words infront of a hallowed memorial he deserves to get the full Lincoln treatment, or at the very least some kind of poltergeist situation. Either way.
I love his beef with Fox. Maybe some crays will realize they’re not his level of cray.
It’s not just a disagreement. Like all things Trump, there is an unethical, financial incentive. Junior has invested heavily in OANN’s parent company.
Good. Maybe by the end, he’ll have alienated everyone in the planet.
He’s treated worse than the dude who was assassinated? Sure, Jan.
wat?
That’s all I’ve got.
So he makes those 90,000 possible deaths all about him and how horribly he’s treated? Of course he does, he’s the biggest narcissist and hates that he gets called out daily.
All of the deflection cannot change how bungled and self-serving the response has been. Does the virus not realize it’s *his* re-election year?
I cannot fathom that the US will not have 100K deaths before the end of May. The early reopenings combined with an alarming amount of disregard for masks and distancing is just going to worsen the spread. People are getting mixed messages instead of using common sense.
The Lincoln Project has put out some fire ads over the past few months. To me the only group who has surpassed them are the folks from Eleven Films. Watching Trump melt down against Lincoln Project is going to be epic. Rick Wilson and I may not agree on much politically, but the man can throw insults like nobodies business and I ALWAYS enjoy watching him tear down the orange menace.
Truthfully, the Lincoln Project has given me a *sliver* of hope that maybe *some* republicans can FINALLY start to acknowledge how their policies gave us Trump and a populace who would rather march than wear masks and how maybe we can come together enough to get rid of Trump and his corrupt money laundering ant farm.
The old republican operative Stuart Stevens is releasing a book called “It Was All A Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump” and I’m really looking forward to the reactions, excuses, and meltdowns from his many republican former colleagues. I mean, the rest of us have known this for YEARS but whatever it takes.
They want Trump out so they can put somebody even worse (but competent, cold, and calculating) in his place. Get the crazy guy out and put in a standard issue red-blooded American handsome man to get Gilead really going. And the Dems in power will fall for it. Everything is going exactly as planned.
This is what keeps me up at night.
Because as horrific as tRump is….the tea party and their followers are truly the demise of life as we know it.
I think he’s obsessed with Lincoln because he’s the only past prez he can remember.
oh, no…he SURE AS HELL remembers the Mighty O. his whole presidency has been about UNdoing what O did.
O (haha), him too!
According to the Vanity Fair article linked here, the Trumps are focusing on establishing their own television station post-presidency. That just displays how deep their narcissism and obtuseness runs. Considering the number of federal and sate investigations that are just licking their chops for the day Trump is out of office, if I were that family I would be focusing on the best legal strategies to avoid the harshest sentencing. Then again, I’m probably more self-aware then they are.
You guys, Trump totally thinks he is comparable to Lincoln. Can you imagine being THAT delusional? And THAT stupid to not realize that he is the antithesis to Lincoln?