Jesse Watters, the host of Watters’ World and co-host of The Five on Fox News, spoke at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida, and told a story about former President Donald Trump to the crowd. Watters told the MAGA crowd that Trump told him that his “Twitter account is the modern-day equivalent of the Gettysburg Address.”
Former President Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863. Somehow, Trump thinks his tweets are the modern equivalent to “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Trump, the most toxic and divisive president in recent U.S. history, must be imagining himself as someone that united the masses. Lincoln said in 1863, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” And Trump’s “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” tweet that he unleashed after midnight in 2017 is somehow comparable to one of the most celebrated speeches in history.
Watters told the crowd of Trump telling the Fox pundit, “Jesse, you know, some people say my Twitter account is the modern-day equivalent to the Gettysburg Address.” Remarkably, the crowd laughed as if Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder is a funny thing.
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Jesse Watters says that Trump showed him the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln Bedroom and said, “Some people say my Twitter account is the modern day equivalent of the Gettysburg Address.” pic.twitter.com/sdlJrlnMZn
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Twitter users piled in:
His twitter account is the modern day mein kampf
— reply guy (@ItsHicham) July 19, 2021
Whenever Trump used the line: “Some people say” it means that no one ever said it. Fixed it.
— James (@JamesSNYC) July 19, 2021
Right. And my bowel movements are the modern-day equivalent of the Michaelangelo’s David.
— Goggles Pisano Against the Machine 🇮🇹🇺🇲 (@G0gglesPisan0) July 19, 2021
me: name one person
— Dad Jokes Panda (@TrashPandaFTW) July 19, 2021
— Schteve H. 🍜🐈🐕📚🎸 (@SchteveH) July 19, 2021
Some people = Himself
— Bike Commuter (@BikeCommuterPH) July 19, 2021
Sure, Trump’s twitter is like the the Gettsyburg Address. That’s why it looks like this now. 😂😂😂 https://t.co/f3Hb4TlcSI pic.twitter.com/Rvm7W92aQj
— Nicoletta (@MissNicoletta) July 19, 2021
This is just another version of one of Trump’s ‘sir’ stories. And if Lincoln were the president instead of Trump at the end of his term in office, he wouldn’t have tried to create a Civil War on Jan. 6 by attempting a coup simply because he sustained a massive narcissistic injury in November.
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