JFK assassination, UFOs and depression: 6 highlights from Trump's interview with Joe Rogan
Abraham Lincoln’s depression
Trump noted how in awe he was to be living in the same house where former President Abraham Lincoln once lived and mentioned the mental health struggles both Lincoln and his wife suffered during the Civil War.
Of the entire three hour Rogan-Trump interview, the most fascinating part to me is when the former president talks about the awe he had walking into the White House for the first time, and specifically the Lincoln Bedroom.
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) October 28, 2024
He goes into detail about the bed and the original… pic.twitter.com/sIqfnVslOl
“Lincoln had a, I don't know. I've never read this, I heard it from people in the White House who really understand what was going on with the whole life of the White House,” he said. “But Lincoln had the yips about, in a way, as the golfers would say, he had a phobia about [Confederate Gen.] Robert E. Lee. Said, ‘I can't beat Robert’ because Robert E. Lee won many battles in a row.”
"He was a very depressed guy, and she was a very, very depressed woman," Trump said about Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, who lost three of her four children. "They also lost their son, whose name was Tad.”
Trump faced criticism for confusing Thomas “Tad” Lincoln, who died at 18 after his father’s death, with William “Willie” Lincoln, who died at 11 in the White House during Lincoln’s presidency.
