You have to watch whole thing. He is the dumbest man to ever obtain the presidency. He’s basically saying that Lincoln wanted to be famous and so he refused to negotiate and started the war. The entire comment is so incredibly ignorant, shallow and basically infantile it’s stunning:
Any “negotiation” he would have entered into would have ended up allowing slavery to expand to the entire country. That’s how good he is.
He cannot learn. This isn’t the first time he’s made an ass out of himself with this issue. Here he is from 2017:
“People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” Trump said in an interview with The Washington Examiner, according to a transcript released Monday. “People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”
Trump ruminated after lauding Jackson, the populist president whom he and his staff have cited as a role model. He suggested that if Jackson had been president “you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War. He said, ‘There’s no reason for this.”
Jackson had been dead for 16 years when the civil war broke out.
By the way, Putin was invading Ukraine during the entire Trump presidency. If he is president again he will also “negotiate” that one by giving western Europe to Putin. Who knows? Maybe Alaska too. As long as Putin says he’s great he’ll say he got a good deal.