Trump keeps trying to pick a fight with a dead president

Systemic Error Podcast · Oct 12, 2026 · 4m

What happened

AlterNet reports that President Donald Trump has repeatedly compared himself with Abraham Lincoln, often casting Lincoln as the lone rival to his claim of presidential greatness. The examples include Trump predicting that history would vindicate him as it did Lincoln, claiming the media treated him worse than any president since Lincoln, and suggesting even a Washington-Lincoln ticket would have struggled to defeat him in 2020 without the pandemic.

The article, drawing heavily on Intelligencer senior editor Margaret Hartmann’s compilation, says those comparisons became more…