Trump Promotes Tweet Comparing Him To Lincoln
- 6 years ago
President Trump has promoted a tweet which compares him to former President Abraham Lincoln.
President Trump has promoted a tweet which compares him to former President Abraham Lincoln.
Trump retweeted the message, which features an interview clip of controversial conservative Dinesh D'Souza on NRA TV, and added the comment, "Very interesting!"
In the video to promote his film "Death of a Nation," D'Souza says: "I made this sort of outrageous decision to morph the images of Trump and Lincoln on the movie poster, and the reason I did that is it occurred to me that we cannot find any precedent for what is going on now in our lifetime."
"I think we have to go all the way back to 1860. Think about it: an outsider, a Republican, comes in out of nowhere, wins a close election and all hell breaks loose. And the northern Democrats are also going berserk. Some of them are calling for Lincoln to be assassinated, which happens later. The southern Democrats are so unwilling to live with the Lincoln presidency, they're ready to break up the country," he adds.
And, after criticizing the Republicans of Lincoln's day for wanting him to compromise on his campaign promises, D'Souza says, "It's an eerily similar parallel to what's going on now, and quite frankly, it's the same party--the Democratic Party--that is the culprits here. And all of these accusations of racism, fascism, all this manipulation of the legal process--all aimed at achieving what the Democrats could not achieve at the ballot box in November of 2016."
D'Souza has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, but he himself has been a polarizing figure in the conservative movement, facing accusations of racist views and getting convicted for a campaign finance violation in 2014.
That said, Trump has also previously compared himself to Lincoln.
During a Montana rally in early September, Trump told the crowd: "You know when Abraham Lincoln made that Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, you know he was ridiculed? And he was excoriated by the fake news. They had fake news then. They said it was a terrible, terrible speech. Fifty years after his death, they said it may have been the greatest speech ever made in America. I have a feeling that's going to happen with us. In different ways, that's going to happen with us."
President Trump has promoted a tweet which compares him to former President Abraham Lincoln.
Trump retweeted the message, which features an interview clip of controversial conservative Dinesh D'Souza on NRA TV, and added the comment, "Very interesting!"
In the video to promote his film "Death of a Nation," D'Souza says: "I made this sort of outrageous decision to morph the images of Trump and Lincoln on the movie poster, and the reason I did that is it occurred to me that we cannot find any precedent for what is going on now in our lifetime."
"I think we have to go all the way back to 1860. Think about it: an outsider, a Republican, comes in out of nowhere, wins a close election and all hell breaks loose. And the northern Democrats are also going berserk. Some of them are calling for Lincoln to be assassinated, which happens later. The southern Democrats are so unwilling to live with the Lincoln presidency, they're ready to break up the country," he adds.
And, after criticizing the Republicans of Lincoln's day for wanting him to compromise on his campaign promises, D'Souza says, "It's an eerily similar parallel to what's going on now, and quite frankly, it's the same party--the Democratic Party--that is the culprits here. And all of these accusations of racism, fascism, all this manipulation of the legal process--all aimed at achieving what the Democrats could not achieve at the ballot box in November of 2016."
D'Souza has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, but he himself has been a polarizing figure in the conservative movement, facing accusations of racist views and getting convicted for a campaign finance violation in 2014.
That said, Trump has also previously compared himself to Lincoln.
During a Montana rally in early September, Trump told the crowd: "You know when Abraham Lincoln made that Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, you know he was ridiculed? And he was excoriated by the fake news. They had fake news then. They said it was a terrible, terrible speech. Fifty years after his death, they said it may have been the greatest speech ever made in America. I have a feeling that's going to happen with us. In different ways, that's going to happen with us."