President Trump today made a declaration during his roundtable at Inglesia Dural Jesus Worship Center in Dural, Florida that Abraham Lincoln was a republican, a fact that shocked no one in attendance.
“The republican Party has grown incredibly from where it was, and we have a whole different group of people in the republican Party,” Trump proclaimed.
[FACT CHECK: Immediately after Trump’s inauguration, 31% of Americans self-identified as republican, according to Gallup. In its last poll running through June 4th, 2020, just 25% of people identified as republican. 25 is less than 31.]
"Nobody ever heard of it before I came along … Abraham Lincoln was a Republican" — Trump thinks he discovered that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican pic.twitter.com/akd8A6MwCy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2020
“Like, people don’t remember, nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time or they didn’t use it, at least–I use it all the time–Abraham Lincoln was a republican. Y’know, you say that and people say, ‘I didn’t know that,’ but he was a republican,” Trump stated.
[FACT CHECK: Many people know Abraham Lincoln was a republican. It’s taught in schools and included in text books. His Party affiliation is on his Wikipedia page. And local GOP organizations traditionally hold a “Lincoln Breakfast” around the anniversary of his birth date.]