Former president and current Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump excels at self-pity, and nowhere did he demonstrate this more than when he announced that he had been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated.
“You know, in history, they say the president who was treated the worst was Abraham Lincoln. But he had… the little civil war going on… I didn’t see the new list. But if I wasn’t number one on Abraham Lincoln, I would be very disappointed.”
Donald Trump:
“You know, in history, it’s said that the president who was treated the worst was Abraham Lincoln. But he had… the little civil war going on… I didn’t see the new list. But if I wasn’t number one on Abraham Lincoln, I would be very disappointed.”
Dear Republicans, it is… pic.twitter.com/LKpTDLDN0a
— Republicans Against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 28, 2024
The sixteenth president of the United States, President Lincoln, was shot in the head by a Confederate sympathizer while at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. on the evening of April 14, 1865.
It’s almost like being found guilty of sexual assault and fraud and facing 91 felony charges and inciting an insurrection against your country, except… NOT.
Donald Trump works against the United States, while Lincoln worked in its favor. Lincoln was assassinated for his efforts to fight people like Trump, who wanted a civil war because they believed they had the right to keep human beings as slaves.
Nothing demonstrates Trump’s lack of genuine care for the United States more than his attacks on the border, while he has forced strong-armed Republicans to scupper a real policy to address the border.
Donald Trump didn’t even have success with the border while he was president, other than the help he received from the Covid pandemic that closed the border. When that temporary measure expired in May 2023, the Biden administration warned that they needed more funds to accommodate the expected surge.
Guess who refused to give him that money? Right. Republicans.
Border problems arise from factors completely unrelated to the desire to address them. President Biden wants to deal with it, he just wants to deal with it in a humane way and it costs money to screen people, to send back people who crossed illegally, to process people – it all costs money.
Republicans would rather “shoot” migrants, install inhumane barbed wire that cut and/or trapped a pregnant woman and children, and separate families as a matter of policy: all measures they support will punish and discourage migrants who try to enter in the United States.
Of course, these things don’t work, because the people who come here are fleeing conditions unfathomable to uneducated Americans.
Donald Trump was not assassinated because he was a good president, as Lincoln was. Donald Trump is not president right now. Donald Trump is – finally – held accountable for a few of his actions and screams like a guilty man who feels above the law.
Donald Trump is a man of self-pity and ego fragility. He simply cannot bear to be challenged and he cannot bear to lose. He is so incapable of dealing with defeat as an adult that he incited what FBI Director Wray called an act of domestic terrorism against his own country in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election that he lost.
Now he publicly complains that he should get the Greatest Victim award, and his supporters cheered and laughed, even as they spent years mocking anyone with feelings and compassion like snowflakes.
Donald Trump is not a victim. He just doesn’t like being treated like a grown man who is expected to obey the law.
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