Trump tweets thread

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(06-13-2020, 04:08 PM)GMDino Wrote: I actually kind of defended DJT on this one.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/12/trump_lincolns_contribution_to_black_community_questionable.html

TRUMP: I think I’ve done more for the black community than any other president. And let's take a pass on Abraham Lincoln, because he did good. Although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result.
 
HARRIS: Well, we are free, Mr. President. He did pretty well.
 
TRUMP: We are free. Well, you understand what I mean? You know, I got to take a pass on a Honest Abe, as we call it.
 
HARRIS: But you say you say you've done more than anybody.

I *think* what he meant was that Lincoln got assassinated because of his freeing the slaves.  I *think* that somewhere in that addled brain of Trump he was *trying* to make that point but he lacks words and the ability to think clearly at all so he just throws out a bunch of sounds and hopes for the best .  That worked before the dementia really started to kick in.  Not so much now.

Not sure he was referring to Lincoln's assassination. Can't rule that out though.

If one doesn't know much about Eisenhower or Johnson, and segregation history, then Trump's claims might seem plausible. A new law here and a little funding there = sending in the US military to enforce B v B, or signing the Civil Rights Act, which eventually altered the composition of the two major political parties by putting Dems firmly down on the pro-integration side, and ended legal segregation.

One aspect of the post-truth age of Trump is that so many people don't do analytical comparisons very well. Any pretext creates equivalence. Biden's gaffs are as bad as Trump's; Trump's done more for the black community (remember that one criminal justice thing no one else could do?) than Johnson.  Maybe Lincoln. NO! give Lincoln, honest Abe as they say, a pass. We are ALL free now.