Trump is fixated on Abe Lincoln

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Yes, Lincoln was "probably a great president," Trump said on Fox News in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign.
83% : "He [Trump] is certainly the best I ever met.
71% : Trump, too, seems fascinated with Honest Abe.
65% : " What we do know is Trump has a particular interest in outliers.
63% : "President Trump has complete confidence that in any situation, he can enforce his will and bring about a positive outcome," Bannon said.
58% : What people will remember is Trump and the MAGA movement.
56% : What stood out, the adviser said, was the amount of time Trump spent on the topic: "That's the longest conversation I ever had with him.
53% : None of this is knowable, but Trump relishes these sorts of counterfactuals.
52% : Back in his first term, Donald Trump was talking to a senior White House aide, Steve Bannon, about potential films to show in the building's movie theater.
51% : At that, Trump mentioned how once he had been flipping through the channels at his home in Bedminster, New Jersey, saw that the nine-part series was airing, and watched the whole thing, Bannon recounted in an interview.
47% : Trump was last, leaving him some work to do to catch up.
45% : The other is the scion of a wealthy New York real estate developer, and a TV-star-turned-politician whose self-branded contribution to presidential discourse is "the weave.
41% : " "Historians will look at this era as the Age of Trump," Bannon added.
32% : Trump "gives everything to the office in his estimation, and that's what Lincoln did," said Brandon Rottinghaus, a University of Houston political science professor and co-director of the project that ranks the presidents.
32% : Trump hasn't laid out how a peaceful settlement could have been reached, but at least one historian says the price of a settlement would have been leaving slavery intact.
31% : One of the pollsters Trump name-checked, John McLaughlin, said in an interview that Trump may have been the one who first said he could have beaten the Washington-Lincoln ticket.
30% : " One Trump adviser recalls a phone call with Trump in which they spent 15 minutes discussing whether Lincoln could have forged a peaceful end to the conflict between the North and South.
13% : He might have brought it up, and I might have said, 'Sure.'" Could Trump have come up with the deal that eluded Lincoln, averting the Civil War altogether?
11% : Still, Trump may feel a certain kinship with Lincoln, having faced assassination attempts in his second presidential campaign and, like Lincoln, having pulled off an upset in his first.
8% : Trump says his pollsters told him could have defeated a ticket of George Washington and Lincoln had the two men whose faces are carved on Mount Rushmore come back from the dead and run against him in 2020.

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