“Trump repeatedly compares himself to Abraham Lincoln”

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“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”

“A Tennessee 10-year-old called into “Fox and Friends” to ask who Trump’s favorite president was when he was little. Trump mentioned GOP exemplar Ronald Reagan, even though he was in his 30s when Reagan was first inaugurated in 1981. He then pivoted to Lincoln, but tempered his praise with some belated second-guessing about the war that broke out six week’s after Lincoln’s first inauguration.”

“Lincoln was probably a great president, although I’ve always said why wasn’t that settled?” said Trump, you know, “I’m a guy that — it doesn’t make sense. We had a Civil War.”

“There’s a whole history of presidents referencing other presidents in these kinds of ways,” said presidential scholar Justin Vaughn of Coastal Carolina University. “Trump’s approach to doing so is unique, as is everything with Trump. It’s often less nuanced or delicate.”

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. But Donald Trump, the 45th president who's running to be the 47th, keeps mentioning his name.

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Interesting how Trump cites one of the greatest Presidents in American History given historians rank Trump as one of the worse in American History (https://presidentialgreatnessproject.com/),

But you can’t do anything but chuckle at Trump’s unique understanding of history, he has a lot in common with those “uneducated he loves,” and it says a lot about the MAGA who are always harping that the education system doesn’t educate when you got their Messiah out there flubbing American History

 

[Nordberg]

We call a lot of Trump's blatant lies, hyperbole. They are not. There is no truth in what he says. He makes it up. Viewers say WTF is he talking about? His statements do not need roots. He will have new lies and crazy statemets for us tomorrow.

 

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We call a lot of Trump's blatant lies, hyperbole. They are not. There is no truth in what he says. He makes it up. Viewers say WTF is he talking about? His statements do not need roots. He will have new lies and crazy statemets for us tomorrow.

As I noted elsewhere, I don’t think he makes it up, rather, it is all orchestrated, part of his schtick, for nine years he has been out there lying his ass off in an effort to numb facts. Just as has purposely muddled respect for traditional institutions he is also doing the same for facts in a similar manner

 

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This is a man we need Leading the Country: he thinks himself better than Lincoln and he admires Hitler.

Is this what florid psychosis looks like?

 

[Daylight63]

As I noted elsewhere, I don’t think he makes it up, rather, it is all orchestrated, part of his schtick, for nine years he has been out there lying his ass off in an effort to numb facts. Just as has purposely muddled respect for traditional institutions he is also doing the same for facts in a similar manner

This almost makes it sound like Trump is running some "strategy". I honestly don't think he's capable of actual strategy (I mean his business strategy once resulted in his own actions destroying the business for another of his casinos, so strategy does not seem to be his "forte"). I fear Trump is more like a wild animal with fascist instincts. He doesn't necessarily know why he's saying what he's saying, it just is what he would normally say. Admire Hitler? The fact that another adult had to tell Trump that he should NEVER say that is evidence enough that it isn't like it is structured thought for Trump.

Trump just Trumps. He can do no other. He knows no other way.

I don't know if that makes him more or less dangerous or if it doesn't matter.

 

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This almost makes it sound like Trump is running some "strategy". I honestly don't think he's capable of actual strategy (I mean his business strategy once resulted in his own actions destroying the business for another of his casinos, so strategy does not seem to be his "forte"). I fear Trump is more like a wild animal with fascist instincts. He doesn't necessarily know why he's saying what he's saying, it just is what he would normally say. Admire Hitler? The fact that another adult had to tell Trump that he should NEVER say that is evidence enough that it isn't like it is structured thought for Trump.

Trump just Trumps. He can do no other. He knows no other way.

I don't know if that makes him more or less dangerous or if it doesn't matter.

He is, he isn’t stupid, narcissistic, but not dumb.

He has learned from his years tangling with the NYC social media and his years in show biz that it is the image that people swallow, not the message nor the way it is delivered. As he himself endorsed, getting bad publicity is even more important than getting no publicity

 

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[Daylight63]

He is, he isn’t stupid, narcissistic, but not dumb.

I might respectfully disagree. It feels that Trump actually is kind of dumb. Not in an insulting way just based on his track record. He has managed to take a giant inheritance and over the space of 40 years using his amazing business acumen to barely beat Wall Street. Meaning he really didn't bring anything to the table that just investing the money wouldn't have gotten him. And then there's the time when he built a super expensive casino in Atlantic City and then built another one down the street which sapped the revenue from the super expensive one leaving it to crater. I'm not sure how bad a business man has to be to run a casino into the ground but I suspect it's pretty bad.

Then there's times he tries to explain simple concepts that everyone knows about and you wonder if this is the first time he's ever heard about it. Like his repeated claims about people not thinking much about the Civil War or how "not many people know about <insert common knowledge thing here>".

He has learned from his years tangling with the NYC social media and his years in show biz that it is the image that people swallow, not the message nor the way it is delivered. As he himself endorsed, getting bad publicity is even more important than getting no publicity

Trump is, if nothing else a SAVANT when it comes to media and populism. The man really should have left real estate decades ago and become a major TV producer. He zeros in on the basest desires of the viewing public. Playing to the most peurile desires of the masses. He is a SHARK in that arena. And it seems to come VERY naturally to him.

But it's like he's a predator that has been engineered to be attractive to some prey.

 

[Daylight63]

Regardless of the debates raging over what a "fascist" is, there is only one way to look at Trump and that is through the lens of the strongman dictator model. That's who he's always praised, that's who he always admires, that's who he always references.

So regardless of if he's a fascist in the strict technical definition or not, he's still a serious danger.

I cannot understand so many Americans who were raised by the Greatest Generation could somehow think that everything our fathers and grandfathers fought and died for is to be so easily tossed out the window just to "own the libs".