Trump Puts Himself in Lincoln’s Company in Speech to Republicans
- Says senator told him he’s greatest president in U.S. history
- Boasts he’s kept ‘far more promises than we promised’
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President Donald Trump extolled his own performance in a speech to Republican lawmakers on Thursday, celebrated the tax plan they together passed into law, mused about a sequel, and suggested he could have won office without the party’s leaders.
The speech, at the annual congressional Republican retreat, was trademark Trump: meandering and boastful.