Lincoln was a Republican, slavery is bad - and more discoveries by President Obvious - Dana Milbank
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer March 22 at 5:01 PM
Seeking and winning the presidency has been a magical voyage of discovery for Donald Trump.
Tuesday night, he divulged a most remarkable finding: Abraham Lincoln was — are you sitting down for this? — a Republican. “Most people don’t even know he was a Republican,” Trump told a group of Republicans. “Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.”
It’s possible that somebody doesn’t know that Lincoln, the first Republican president, was a member of the Republican Party, also known as “the Party of Lincoln.” But it has not been for lack of effort on Trump’s part. He has repeatedly tried to educate the populace on this little-known fact.
August 2016: “Most people don’t know this. The Republican Party is .?.?. the party of Abraham Lincoln.”
September 2016: “A lot of people don’t realize that Abraham Lincoln, the great Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican.”
October 2016: “A lot of people don’t know that it’s the party of Abraham Lincoln.”
Beyond this Lincoln revelation, Trump has happened upon many other things that people didn’t know. Such as the complexity of health care: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated,” he said recently. And the existence of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895: “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
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Even Willie Geist mocked him: they played a clip of 45 saying this, then WG whispered, "Pssst, that's why it's called the Party of Lincoln". 
