Abe and George might have their faces on Mt. Rushmore, but they didn’t “put out eight wars,” says Trump.
President Donald Trump couldn’t help but favorably compare himself to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in a rambling speech in the Rose Garden on Tuesday.
“Hey, they didn’t put out eight wars, nine coming,” he said. “We put out eight wars, and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.”
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Trump then recalled a person “on television” who said he was the “third best president” behind Washington and Lincoln.
“I got extremely angry at this man,” Trump, 79, admitted.
Trump Says He’s Got Lincoln and Washington Beat as POTUS
Abe and George might have their faces on Mt. Rushmore, but they didn’t “put out eight wars,” says Trump.