Trump: 'Fake News' Ridiculed Lincoln for Gettysburg Address

[DonViejo]

President Trump says his speeches will go down in history for being as great as the Gettysburg Address—which he says was lambasted by “fake news” way back in 1863. Speaking to supporters in Billings, Montana, late Thursday, Trump defended his fitness for office and said his long campaign rallies “often without any notes” are proof of his mental sharpness. He went on to compare himself to President Abraham Lincoln. “You know when Abraham Lincoln made that Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, you know he was ridiculed?” he said. “And he was excoriated by the fake news. They had fake news then. They said it was a terrible, terrible speech,” he said. “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.”

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[Harker]

1. Please.

Make it stop.

[Ohiogal]

2. Well, he's got it half right.

His speeches will be remembered -- as a laughable example of the incoherent ramblings of an unfit imbecile who was installed into power by Russia.

[Croney]

3. I think he's right, I remember reading that it was excoriated on

CNN and other stations at the time.

His idiot audience would believe that in a minute, and worship their goon for using big words that they have no need to look up because who cares.

[PatSeg]

4. Oh groan

[Maeve]

5. Actually, it was Lincoln who denigraded his own speech

"..the world will little note nor long remember what we say here..."

45 has no idea what he actually sounds like.

[lpbk2713]

6. He heard someone say 'excoriated' recently.

He looked it up and decided he would use it in his next speech.