No, you’re better ... ‘What about Lincoln? What about Abraham Lincoln?’ ... Nope, I'm better,” Trump recalled, according to USA Today. “He said I’m tougher on the border than Abraham Lincoln, right, than Honest Abe,” he added. Plus, so many died in the war. Many more people were killed by Trumps flub of covid than died in the civil war. During a recent appearance on Fox News, Trump said: “Lincoln was probably a great president. Although I’ve always said, why wasn’t that settled, you know? I’m a guy that — it doesn’t make sense we had a civil war.”