Trump Oddly Names Reagan His Favorite President When He Was ‘Little,’ Says Lincoln Should’ve ‘Settled’ Civil War

Former President Donald Trump named Ronald Reagan his favorite president when he was “little” and dinged Abraham Lincoln’s handling of the Civil War.

Appearing on set on Friday’s Fox & Friends , Trump fielded a recorded question from a child.

“President Trump, I’m Daniel, and I’m 10, and I’m from Tennessee,” the boy said. “What was your favorite president when you were little?”

In case Trump did not hear the question, host Brian Kilmeade repeated it.

“So, I liked Ronald Reagan, Trump said of the president who was inaugurated when Trump was 34 years old. “I thought he was– look, I didn’t love his trade policy. I’m a very good trade– I’ve made some great trade deals for us.”

The former president then cited the 16th president.

“Lincoln was probably a great president,” he added. “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.

“Well, half the country left before he got there,” Kilmeade said, noting that many slave states seceded to join the Confederacy by the time Lincoln took office in March 1861.

“Yeah,” Trump replied before pivoting to a completely different topic. “But you could almost say like, why wasn’t that– as an example, Ukraine would’ve never happened and Russia if I were president.”

Trump has gone so far as to claim he was treated worse than any president in U.S. history, including the four presidents who were assassinated. Lincoln, who settled the Civil War by defeating the slaveholding Confederate states, was assassinated in 1865.

“Andrew Jackson, he was treated very badly and a few others, and I haven’t seen the new list,” Trump said in January. “But if I’m not number one over Abraham Lincoln, I will be very disappointed because I don’t believe any president’s ever been. And they do that because their policies can’t work. This is the only way.”

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