Trump claims 'nobody ever heard' Abraham Lincoln was a Republican until he pointed it out

[Nevilledog]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-abraham-lincoln-president-doral-golf-resort-venezuela-a9613666.html?fbclid=IwAR1T-A_7pZh3xvFxJBXjEcZIRoufLlFvwQ9yX4GvcPSI1DsHycmo7Jbte6M


Donald Trump has claimed that until he became US president “nobody ever heard” that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

The US president’s improbable claim came during a roundtable discussion on Venezuela at his Doral golf resort in Florida, in which he largely ignored the issue of the South American country and instead praised his administration’s handling of a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans.

“The Republican Party has grown incredibly from when it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican Party,” Mr Trump said on Friday.

“Like people don’t remember, nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time, or they didn’t use it at least, I use it all the time: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. You know you say that and people say, ‘I didn’t know that’, but he was Republican, so we’re doing a great job.”

*snip*


Lincoln responds:

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[dchill]

1. Meaning, Trump had no idea.

[malaise]

13. Ding ding

That's the truth -he knows nothing about anything

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Embarrassing

Not just him, but that 39-42% are still planning to vote for this idiot!

[wryter2000]

3. What he means is

He just found out. He is his entire world.

[empedocles]

4. Now trump doesn't know his base-base. The most backwards rw, racist

trump baser, knew to 'not vote Republican - the party of Lincoln.'

'Stuff' gets more bizarre every day.

[keithbvadu2]

25. The party of Lincoln.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Obviously, he's never listened to a Republican

They pull that Abe Lincoln bullshit every time they're caught doing something dumb and rightwingish.

[MythosMaster]

6. Sad day for a political party

When you are reduced to invoking a president the was killed over 150 years ago by a wrong wing anti domocracy racist.

[spanone]

7. what that really means is that trump didn't know until a year or so ago

[yellowcanine]

8. His traitor flag waving base still doesn't know it.

[LakeArenal]

9. Ripon Wisconsin would beg to differ, Donwad.

[RKP5637]

10. Two idiots standing in front of Lincoln! n/t

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Explain again to the adults and experts, baby-Donnie.

Dr. Birx must be smiling, so proud of her big boy!

[doc03]

12. I remember he made that claim a couple years ago.

I am glad he discovered that who would have known. I wonder if he figured out Herbert Hoover was also a Republican.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. .

[Maeve]

15. Good lord, we learned that in grade school!

Not even as smart as a DUMB 5th grader....

[Towlie]

16. There's one Trump quote in that article that's very true:

“The Republican Party has grown incredibly from when it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican Party,” Mr Trump said on Friday.

It has grown incredibly more evil and corrupt.

[Shrike47]

18. Yep, a whole different group of people. None of the original members survived. Only 150+ years.

[gulliver]

17. It's like a pile of dog crap on a dinner plate telling someone they used to have a steak.

And they get a warm feeling remembering the steak, then finish their dinner.

[rurallib]

19. Just thinking how proud Abe would be to see a Republican president defending the traitors

that tore the country apart and led to one of America's bloodiest conflicts.
I am sure Lincoln would embrace Trump for that. for the humor impaired

[WyattKansas]

20. Will someone around Donald Dumbass just slap him up side the head when he says this crap?

No average American can listen to the imbecile and not realize the asshole lies every time he opens his blowhole.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. It's painful just reading the crap he spews, can't imagine listening to it in real time.

[struggle4progress]

22. That's probably true for his fan-base

"The Continental is named after some Republican guy? Wow! I didn't know that!"

[LuckyCharms]

23. I knew that at age 6, President Smegmabrain.

[chriscan64]

24. When he gets to 5th grade

he'll find out Lincoln tried to take out his favorite confederate generals. Not the statues, them.