President Donald Trump once again insisted the 2020 election was rigged on Wednesday, leaning on one of his most questionable claims about his own popularity in the process.
The president has had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad last few days in the news cycle — so, while speaking at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, he chose to praise the way his administration handled the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
“We did a great job with COVID, but that was a horrible thing for the whole world,” Trump said. “The whole world suffered. Your countries suffered. Everybody suffered.”
Trump then noted how the pandemic affected him in unique ways, especially when it came to his poll ratings. The president told the audience that the day before he was told about the incoming pandemic, his pollsters shared some incredibly positive news.
“They said, sir, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln came back from the dead and they aligned, and they went for the president, vice president as a combination, you’d be beating them by 25 points,” Trump said.
