Trump Claims Even George Washington Would Have Backed Him, Puts Himself on Par With Lincoln

Don­ald Trump told the audi­ence that his “Amer­i­ca First” vision reflect­ed exact­ly what George Wash­ing­ton would have want­ed, even claim­ing the nation’s first pres­i­dent would have vot­ed for him.

Speak­ing at the Amer­i­can Cor­ner­stone Institute’s Founders Din­ner, held at Washington’s his­toric Mount Ver­non estate, Trump declared:

“On the world stage, we are once again putting Amer­i­ca first. That is what we do — we help oth­ers, but we have to put Amer­i­ca first. Exact­ly as George Wash­ing­ton would have want­ed. He would have vot­ed for us.”

With those remarks, the for­mer pres­i­dent not only aligned him­self with Washington’s lega­cy but also placed him­self among the great fig­ures of Amer­i­can his­to­ry, sug­gest­ing his polit­i­cal move­ment car­ries on the vision of the Found­ing Fathers.

Trump ranks him­self with Wash­ing­ton and Lin­coln

“We have a man who rat­ed me the num­ber three pres­i­dent of all time,” Trump said. “He said only super­seded by George Wash­ing­ton and Abra­ham Lin­coln. And the host of the show said, ‘Are you in trou­ble! Trump is going to be so angry at you when he hears he‘s num­ber three.’ But we will take that. I don‘t know how many have done that.”

The pres­i­dent com­pared him­self to Wash­ing­ton ear­li­er this year, too. Dur­ing his address to Con­gress back in March, Trump bragged that his sec­ond-term kick­off beat out even the first pres­i­dent

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“It has been stat­ed by many that the first month of our pres­i­den­cy… is the most suc­cess­ful in the his­to­ry of our nation,” he said then, And what makes it even more impres­sive is that, do you know who num­ber two is? George Wash­ing­ton. How about that? I don’t know about that list, but we’ll take it.”

Dur­ing his first run in the White House, Trump once told an Ohio ral­ly, “With the excep­tion of the late, great Abra­ham Lin­coln, I can be more pres­i­den­tial than any pres­i­dent that’s ever held this office.”

That said, while pat­ting him­self on the back, Trump also hand­ed out a prize. He announced that his for­mer HUD sec­re­tary, Dr Ben Car­son, will be receiv­ing the Pres­i­den­tial Medal of Free­dom. Car­son and his wife, Can­dy, found­ed the Amer­i­can Cor­ner­stone Insti­tute in 2021 to pro­mote con­ser­v­a­tive val­ues, and the think tank even sat on the advi­so­ry board of Project 2025.

When Stallone crowned Trump ‘the second George Washington’

Back in Novem­ber, Hol­ly­wood leg­end Sylvester Stal­lone him­self called Trump the “sec­ond George Wash­ing­ton” while speak­ing at the Amer­i­ca First Pol­i­cy Con­fer­ence at Mar-a-Lago.

The 78-year-old action star described the open­ing scene of the first Rocky film, where the cam­era pans from a mur­al of Jesus in an old church-turned-gym as Rocky Bal­boa gets socked in the face, with the words “Res­ur­rec­tion AC Club” hang­ing in the back­ground.

At that moment, he was a cho­sen per­son, and that’s how I began the jour­ney,” Stal­lone told the Flori­da crowd. “Something’s gonna hap­pen, this man is gonna go through a meta­mor­pho­sis and change lives

Stal­lone wasn’t shy about how much he admires Trump. He called the then-Pres­i­dent-elect a “myth­i­cal char­ac­ter” and admit­ted he was “awed” by Trump’s elec­tion-night vic­to­ry.

“This indi­vid­ual does not exist on this plan­et. Nobody could’ve pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe,” he said.

The tough-guy direc­tor even com­pared Trump’s cam­paign to the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion itself. “When George Wash­ing­ton defend­ed his coun­try, he had no idea that he was going to change the world. ‘Cause with­out him, you could imag­ine what the world would look like,” he said.

“Guess what? We got the sec­ond George Wash­ing­ton. Con­grat­u­la­tions,” Stal­lone gushed as he wel­comed Trump on stage.