It Doesn't Get Any Better

And it's not going to.

President Trump gave the crowd a history lesson on former president Lincoln's party leanings while speaking on Mar. 21.

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“Most people don’t even know [Lincoln] was a Republican,” Trump told a group of Republicans. “Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.”

  WaPo

Makes you wonder when he found out.

Seeking and winning the presidency has been a magical voyage of discovery for Donald Trump.

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Beyond this Lincoln revelation, Trump has happened upon many other things that people didn’t know. Such as the complexity of health care: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated,” he said recently. And the existence of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895: “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”

Later, touring the new African American history museum in Washington, Trump discovered that slavery was bad. Spying a stone auction block, Trump said, according to Alveda King, a part of his entourage: “Boy, that is just not good. That is not good.” King also told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that upon seeing shackles for children, Trump remarked: “That is really bad. That is really bad.”

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[T]here are many other things Trump thinks people don’t know about.

Sunday school: “I talk about Sunday school and people don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore. It’s true.”

That Bill Clinton signed NAFTA: “A lot of people don’t know that.”

What a value-added tax is: “A lot of people don’t know what that means.”

That we have a trade deficit with Mexico: “People don’t know that.”

That Iraq has large oil reserves: “People don’t know this about Iraq.”

That war is expensive: “People don’t realize it is a very, very expensive process.”

That the country is divided: “People don’t realize we are an unbelievably divided country.”

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

I think he does it to cover the fact that he's clueless on so many things, and yet, as a true narcissist, can't allow it to seem so (and may not believe it, himself). He likes to be the know-it-all (even if it's incredibly transparent that the opposite is true).

“Nobody knows health care better than Donald Trump.”

“Nobody knows the tax code better than I do.”

“Nobody knows politics better than I do.”

“Nobody knows the politicians better than me.”

“Nobody knows the system better than me.”

“Nobody knows more about debt. I’m like the king.”

The king of debt, maybe.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.