Trump has a giant “tell” that everyone knows. Whenever he says “No one ever heard of _________ until I brought it up,” or “Until I said so,” Trump is conveying that he had no idea until someone told him. Obviously. So it was pretty ridiculous when Trump said that no one knew that Lincoln was a Republican until Trump brought it up. Trump doubled up on his “stupidity” in it because not only did he not know, he also didn’t know that practically everyone knows that the GOP is “the Party of Lincoln.”

TRUMP: “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.’” pic.twitter.com/QcfnPUhlOj

— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) July 10, 2020

Whenever Trump says “People say,” he – of course – is one saying it. He’s making it up. Trump said “I didn’t know that” at least to himself.

Obviously, there are a few other things about Lincoln that Trump has a hard time understanding. Lincoln was a hardcore progressive. Lincoln was so progressive that he believed in freeing the slaves even though he knew that the South might go to war to keep the institution. Lincoln thought it was the right thing to do. Moreover, Trump doesn’t realize that Lincoln was one of the most “big government” types out there. Lincoln believed in big government so much that he sent in the big-government army to defeat the traitorous Confederate army.

Lincoln was also famous for being honest. There isn’t much that Trump shares with the Republican Lincoln.

Some people had some thoughts about Trump’s statement:

https://twitter.com/Bytor1960/status/1281688884934410240

Trump won’t have a presidential library. They cost money, and they are for scholars.

1:People don't know that = I did not know that.
2: Republican (mostly north) and Democrats (mostly south) later switched platforms. So yes Abraham Lincoln was a republican but would most likely be a democrat today.
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— Hadrilion (@Hadrilion) July 10, 2020

Lincoln wouldn’t just be a Democrat, he would be supporting Black Lives Matter.

https://twitter.com/Frank_N_Meems/status/1281695647943454720

"Like pens. Nobody had ever heard of a pen until I came along, and nobody used one for a long time until I did again. And a lot of people, many, many people, don't know that a pen contains ink. I knew it contained ink before they called it ink, believe me, folks, believe me…" pic.twitter.com/lLTtna0QkH

— Jay Barker 💙 (@buf2srq2) July 10, 2020

The only people who say “I didn’t know that” are John Miller, John Barron, David Dennison and Carolin Gallego.

— DeeDee (@NashvilleDeeDee) July 10, 2020

Dude has never read a history book

— RSales (@RaySalesWord) July 10, 2020

All children that don't have others take their tests for them know this.

— Barb (@barbo40) July 10, 2020

Good grief, just because a mentally defective fake president doesn't know Lincoln was a Republican, he thinks the rest of the country is equally as ill-informed? Unbelievable.

— J. Smith (@TheLawgiver3) July 10, 2020

Trump always announces common sense information that EVERYONE knows as if it were an arcane intellectual achievement to know it. EVERYONE except Trump knows Lincoln was a Republican; we also know that since 1968, the GOP has been the racist party of the south. #TrumpTaxReturns

— Artemesia (@Artemesia44) July 10, 2020

Exactly.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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