Former President Donald Trump told the authors of a new book that he believes he would have had a good chance of winning a presidential election against George Washington, even with Abraham Lincoln as Washington’s running mate. Abraham Lincoln ranked first, and Washington came in second. “George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in, before the China plague,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, using the racist term for COVID-19. “Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump ... with the exception of Abraham Lincoln,” he declared while debating Joe Biden during their presidential campaigns. Trump has also mused about his own giant image carved in stone alongside the notable presidents on Mount Rushmore, which include Washington, Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Source: Huffington Post July 18, 2021 03:33 UTC