"I've been treated worse than Lincoln", Trump said today

[bripat9643]

If Trump didn't lie so much and unfairly attack everyone who criticizes him he would get far less bad press. The press has an obligarion to report when he lies. Period. The press has an obligarion to report when he attacks his critics. Period. Trump is suggesting it's unfair for news organizations to report the news.

All the so-called "journalists" he has attacked have deserved it, in spades.

Your opinion, but free speech, and free press allow those he attacks to respond and defend themselves. The problem is Trump and his supporters like you can't handle reality and it's making Trump and trumpoholics meltdown and whine. Honeymoon is over dick breath.

You're the one who is whining about Trump's attacks on the press, so who can't handle it? I'm simply pointing out that they got what they dished out.

 

[bripat9643]

What should he have done sooner than he did?

Stockpiled PPE.

ROFL! Did Obama do that?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Lincoln was highly controversial, journalism was blazing yellow

And according to you, so is Trump. Also if you do historical and comparative analysis about press treatment of a sitting president during a time of crisis, one can just as easily assert the press was just as yellow now as it was in Lincoln's time.

but unlike Trump I don't think Lincoln relentlessly and obsessively attacked the media or frankly lied in the daily, hourly way Trump does.

Unlike Trump, Lincoln, as did the rest of 1860's America did not have the luxury of social media. Lincoln was prosecuting a civil war, Trump is directing a response to a health crisis. Lincoln could not reach his constituents the way Trump can now.

More importantly, news travels almost real-time now, which was not the case in Lincoln's time.

The comparison you make is flawed, just as much so as the comparison Trump made about "being treated worse than Lincoln."

The president's fault is not being concise. Yours is not being honest in your comparisons.

 

[bripat9643]

No, they are based on the "hate Trump all the time" DNC narrative.

What? I could have sworn they asked questions based on the IMPOTUS's previous assertions about COVID-19.

You're suffering from brain damage.

I'm so pleased he's your leader and not mine. The blessing of merciful gods.

You're crying over that tub of lard getting exactly what she asked for?

 

[cnm]

I'm simply pointing out that they got what they dished out.

You mean questioning him based on his own words? The bastards.

 

[bripat9643]

I'm simply pointing out that they got what they dished out.

You mean questioning him based on his own words? The bastards.

Trump attacked them based on their own words, douchebag.

 

[cnm]

ROFL! Did Obama do that?

Are you saying the IMPOTUS shouldn't have stockpiled PPE early? Or is it some other deflection?

 

[Coyote]

Why is the President sitting in front of a picture of the Lincoln Memorial? Is that supposed to mean something? It was a virtual townhall. He wasn't actually sitting in that rinky dink chair in front of the Lincoln Memorial, was he?

Nice Try, Fox or Mr. Trump or whoever had this great idea, but sitting in front of Lincoln does not make me associate Trump with one of our greatest Presidents.

What a pathetic attempt at making this guy look good!

Trump has often attempted to compare himself to Lincoln...pretty arrogant imo.

President Donald Trump declared on Thursday night that the "fake news" media "excoriated" former President Abraham Lincoln for his Gettysburg Address.

"You know when Abraham Lincoln made that Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, you know he was ridiculed?" Trump said during a rally in Billings, Montana, referring to the speech delivered by Lincoln in Gettysburg during the Civil War in 1863, reported The Hill.

"And he was excoriated by the fake news. They had fake news then. They said it was a terrible, terrible speech."

Trump then goes on to compare himself to the former president, saying that Lincoln's speech only became respected 50 years after he was assassinated in 1865.

"Fifty years after his death they said it may have been the greatest speech ever made in America," Trump continued. "I have a feeling that's going to happen with us. In different ways, that's going to happen with us."

Following Trump's speech, several critics took to social media to point out the inaccuracies in Trump's Gettysburg claim.

"The coverage of President Lincoln's address in The New York Times was quite favorable, actually," Washington lawyer George Conway tweeted, alongside links to archived Times articles from 1863.

Former President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on a battlefield in 1863, months after the Union armies defeated the Confederacy armies at the Battle of Gettysburg. The 272-word address is now one of the best-known speeches in American history.

During the address, Lincoln carefully cites the principles of human equality guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and explained that the Civil War was a struggle that would bring true equality to all Americans.

 

[OldLady]

Why is the President sitting in front of a picture of the Lincoln Memorial? Is that supposed to mean something? It was a virtual townhall. He wasn't actually sitting in that rinky dink chair in front of the Lincoln Memorial, was he?

Nice Try, Fox or Mr. Trump or whoever had this great idea, but sitting in front of Lincoln does not make me associate Trump with one of our greatest Presidents.

What a pathetic attempt at making this guy look good!

Has to be photoshopped. He's dumb, but not that dumb...

...hhmmm maybe....

In a video attached to the article from The Hill, it says he was seated in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. In the interview, he said "I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump said, sitting in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. "The closest would be that gentleman right up there. They always said Lincoln, nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse."

Geeezus God, he's sickening.

 

[cnm]

Trump attacked them based on their own words, douchebag.

Here you go, fuckwit.

 

[cnm]

Jesus. Reading deplorables defend the IMPOTUS is like watching a car crash COVID-19 briefing in that reality is treated as an abstract notion.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Indeed. All the deranged Trumpsters coming to his defense. Honestly. Treated worse than Lincoln? SERIOUSLY? And then attacking Bush when Bush suggested we come together as a nation over the virus?

Then again, I am observant enough to know how Lincoln was treated while he was running for/became president, excluding the part where he was assassinated.

You know, because there was a time when he was alive.

Trump is a master of overstatement, that doesn't mean he's wrong.

There is a HUGE difference between Lincoln and Trump on many levels. Lincoln was highly controversial, journalism was blazing yellow, but unlike Trump I don't think Lincoln relentlessly and obsessively attacked the media or frankly lied in the daily, hourly way Trump does. Trump might be badly treated but unlike others he contributes to it because he is so thin skinned he can't let it go like his predecessors did.

And to reply to your post as a whole...

Do you honestly believe the liberal press always tells the truth about Trump? Always?

Are you (and I don't mean this in a derogatory way), gullible enough to believe everything they say?

Or are you simply to biased against him to know when they are telling outright lies about the President?

 

[skye]

They always said Lincoln, nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse."

In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump makes it at all about himself again.

Trump says he’s been treated worse than Lincoln by the press

President Trump on Sunday complained that he has been treated worse by the media than any previous president, including Abraham Lincoln.Trump defended his frequent clashes with the press durin…

thehill.com

God, you are stupid.

In the middle of a pandemic, YOU, and the LEFT made it about Trump.

I couldn't agree more!

 

[eddiew]

They always said Lincoln, nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse."

In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump makes it at all about himself again.

Trump says he’s been treated worse than Lincoln by the press

President Trump on Sunday complained that he has been treated worse by the media than any previous president, including Abraham Lincoln.Trump defended his frequent clashes with the press durin…

thehill.com

God, you are stupid.

In the middle of a pandemic, YOU, and the LEFT made it about Trump.

Yeah we did because that moron while patting himself on the back is responsible for 1000,s of needless deaths for lack of acting quickly and in the american peoples best interests

What should he have done sooner than he did?

Take action build up the depleted supplies by going to companies like he did 2 months later start preparing for shutdown NOT bullshit to the people that it's only 15 people that it'll disappear like magic The pos is just trying to protect his election possibility not our citizens

 

[TemplarKormac]

Jesus. Reading deplorables defend the IMPOTUS is like watching a car crash COVID-19 briefing in that reality is treated as an abstract notion.

There would be car crashes if we weren't on constant lockdown like we are now. Right now, the streets are empty, vacuous, as is your head.

 

[Winco]

Trump will also be hailed as a great president.

Not this con man.
History will be truthful and trump will be humiliated.
Well, he'll be dead, but History will be very truthful and unkind to this stain of a baby-man.

lol.

 

[bripat9643]

Republican/rightwing press hate machine

You mean just Fox News? He had a whole battery of news organizations and press outlets coming to his defense, in lieu of acknowledging any truth that might be told about him.

No, not just Fox News. We have gone well beyond the days of main stream news outlets and cable - news is now blogs, internet, FB and countless other sources. That pick up and spread each others fare. Trump has never had his citizenship questioned, his patriotism, his loyalty to America, his stated religion, his school records, his birth certificate. Pretty damn major things.

Except for the citizenship issue, he has experienced all of that. He has been attacked for many other things. The media has called him a traitor too many times to count.

It's hilarious watching you weep for the president that got his ass kissed more than any president in history.

Really? They've called Trump a Muslim? They've claimed his school records are sealed and he's hiding something? That we don't know anything about him? That he has brought in the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House? That he wasn't born where he said?

I missed all that.

The press never called Obama a Muslim, dingbat. You're confusin what USMB forum members say with what the press says.

Obama's school records are sealed. He's obviously hiding something. Otherwise, why are they sealed? There's an awful lot that we don't know about Obama.

As for the Muslim brotherhood, he did support them in their takeover of the government of Egypt.

 

[eddiew]

They always said Lincoln, nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse."

In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump makes it at all about himself again.

Trump says he’s been treated worse than Lincoln by the press

President Trump on Sunday complained that he has been treated worse by the media than any previous president, including Abraham Lincoln.Trump defended his frequent clashes with the press durin…

thehill.com

God, you are stupid.

In the middle of a pandemic, YOU, and the LEFT made it about Trump.

I couldn't agree more!

And no one ever deserved it more

 

[Camp]

If Trump didn't lie so much and unfairly attack everyone who criticizes him he would get far less bad press. The press has an obligarion to report when he lies. Period. The press has an obligarion to report when he attacks his critics. Period. Trump is suggesting it's unfair for news organizations to report the news.

All the so-called "journalists" he has attacked have deserved it, in spades.

Your opinion, but free speech, and free press allow those he attacks to respond and defend themselves. The problem is Trump and his supporters like you can't handle reality and it's making Trump and trumpoholics meltdown and whine. Honeymoon is over dick breath.

You're the one who is whining about Trump's attacks on the press, so who can't handle it?I'm simply pointing out that they got what they dished out.

What Trump and you do is whining. What I do is called bitch-slapping.

 

[bodecea]

They always said Lincoln, nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse."

In the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump makes it at all about himself again.

Trump says he’s been treated worse than Lincoln by the press

President Trump on Sunday complained that he has been treated worse by the media than any previous president, including Abraham Lincoln.Trump defended his frequent clashes with the press durin…

thehill.com

God, you are stupid.

In the middle of a pandemic, YOU, and the LEFT made it about Trump.

So you agree with lard donnie that he's been treated worse than Lincoln. (not a question)