On Saturday, Donald Trump held a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. This was his last big media event before appearing in a New York courtroom on Monday at the start of his first criminal trial for falsifying business records related to hush money payments to a porn star. So it’s only appropriate that Trump was determined to make his speech especially historic. And he succeeded.
When Abraham Lincoln dedicated the national cemetery at Gettysburg, his delivery was so unexpectedly brief that the photographer sent to capture the event didn’t manage to grab an image from the speech. But Trump, who has repeatedly claimed to be better than Lincoln, aced the 16th president out.
Lincoln spoke for around two minutes. It took Trump less than one to deliver a speech about Gettysburg that should go down in history as one of the most ridiculous, incoherent, and ignorant statements ever mouthed by anyone on a public stage.