Some of the details pouring forth from “I Alone Can Fix It,” by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig are extremely disturbing, others are genuinely needed as Friday afternoon comedy.

This morning we reported on the possibility (probability?) that Trump and some in the Secret Service conspired to get Pence out of the Capitol during the counting of ballots, this afternoon we are reporting on fact that before Trump got his ass kicked by Biden, he thought he could beat a ticket with Washington as president and Lincoln as vice-president.

According to the Guardian, the book notes that Trump told reporters:

“I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice-president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me,” Trump told them, according to the Guardian.

Fascinating. This, coming from a man who twice lost the popular vote, is truly a special sort of narcissism. We know one thing, he would lose a debate to the top teams from the nearest high schools named “Washington” or “Lincoln.” One should go back through a generation of presidents, all of them still alive, and ask them if there is a compelling reason that they would want to beat a Washington-Lincoln ticket, or if they were just fine with what they did accomplish.

It would seem to us like most people who ran for president would rather work on a Washington-Lincoln campaign team than compete against them, wanting the best for the country and all. We sense a difference between Trump and most presidents. Puzzling.

But given how little he thought of Joe Biden (“I can’t fcking get beat by this guy”) it is just beyond wonderful that he couldn’t beat the next guy/gal in line, never mind Washington-Lincoln.

In fact, from all the evidence before us, he would lose to a Biden-Washington ticket, or a Biden-Lincoln ticket. While we are doing past presidents, we might as well point out that he’d also lose to a Biden-Obama ticket. But now we’re just rubbing it in.

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