Trump suggested that Abraham Lincoln should let the South keep a little slavery
Donald Trump appeared on Fox News this morning, where, in a particularly strange interview, he suggested that Abraham Lincoln could have avoided the Civil War by cutting a deal with the South – which serves as a reminder , wanted slavery to remain legal.
When asked by a 10-year-old boy who was his favorite president when “he was a kid,” Trump began by saying he “liked Ronald Reagan.” (Note: Trump was 34 when Reagan first took office and 42 when he left office.) Then he turned to Lincoln, whom he believed was a great president—but who might have been even better if he “ resolve” Civil War.
“Great presidents?” Trump said. “Lincoln was probably a great president, although I always say, why hasn’t that been resolved? You know, I’m the one that—it just doesn’t make sense that we had a Civil War…. You’d almost say, like, why wouldn’t it be like that? [settled]? For example, Ukraine would never have happened, and Russia, if I were president. Israel will never happen; As you know, October 7 will never happen.”
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It is unclear exactly what Trump thought Lincoln should do to “resolve” the dispute between the North and the South, which had seceded from the Union largely because it wanted to continue enslaving its people. Does Trump think Abe should have come to the negotiating table, The art of negotiation–style, and let the South keep some slaves? Because that’s what it sounds like.
As for the idea that “Ukraine would never happen… if I were president,” or October 7 for that matter, these are claims he has repeatedly made without any evidence prove them. He do suggest Yet on Thursday he would end the war in Ukraine by siding with Russia, bizarrely claiming that Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy “let that fight begin.” (In fact, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.)
Elsewhere in Trump’s chat with Fox, he stated that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To be “very concerned about women’s health,” that thing Kamala Harris To be “a person with low IQ,” and that during Harris’s presidency, “you There will be no more cows.”
