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Salon
Salon
Politics
Kirk Swearingen

Donald Trump, Honest Abe and Joe Biden

The worst president in American history is back at it, comparing himself to the best. But this is nothing new — the endless repetition of falsehoods is how propaganda works.

Last week, in his now-infamous appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, Donald Trump first questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity and then literally claimed he was “the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln.”

Trump started comparing himself with Lincoln at least four years ago. During the 2020 campaign, he began regularly informing us that Lincoln was a Republican — his ever-so-endearing way of boy-splaining a basic and well-known fact he thinks he has discovered.

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