Trump claims his job-approval rating among Republicans is better than 'Honest Abe' Lincoln's
- President Donald Trump, in an interview with a British newspaper on Thursday, said he believes he is "the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party."
- During his interview with The Sun, Trump claimed his approval rating among Republicans landed at 92%, "beating [Abraham] Lincoln."
- "I beat our Honest Abe," Trump said. A Gallup poll published last month found Trump's approval rating among fellow Republicans was 90%.
President Donald Trump claimed he is "the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party," during an interview with a British newspaper on Thursday.
During a conversation with The Sun, Trump insisted his approval rating among Republicans landed at 92%, "beating [Abraham] Lincoln."
"I beat our Honest Abe," Trump said.
A Gallup poll published last month found Trump's approval rating among fellow Republicans was 90%, the highest intraparty rating of any first-term Republican president since George W. Bush, The New York Times reported on June 23.
While it wasn't immediately clear which poll Trump was referring to in his mention of Abraham Lincoln, Gallup's presidential approval ratings only stretch back to the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953. Lincoln died in 1865.
A day earlier, the Pew Research Center found that former President Barack Obama tops the public's list of best presidents, alongside Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan.