Trump Shares Lincoln Memorial Image With Second Inaugural Quote
Trump posts a bronze rendering of Abraham Lincoln inscribed with the 16th president's 1865 call for “malice toward none” and “charity for all.”.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump shared an image of a bronze Abraham Lincoln memorial inscribed with words from the 16th president’s Second Inaugural Address.
The rendering depicts a full-length standing statue of Lincoln in 19th-century formal attire, set within an arched niche framed by columns and an American flag in bronze relief. The plaque names Lincoln as the 16th president, gives his dates as 1809 to 1865, and carries the closing appeal of his 1865 speech. Lincoln delivered that address in Washington five weeks before his assassination.
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “PLUSH ONLY ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE; WITH CHARITY FOR ALL; WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT.” on August 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM ET.
This is Trump’s 14th message released today. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
The post falls into an uncategorized bucket for Trump’s messaging, with 28 of his 455 posts over the last 30 days landing in that same group.
The quoted passage comes from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, spoken on March 4, 1865, near the end of the Civil War. The words urged national reconciliation as Union forces neared victory over the Confederacy. An assassin shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865, and he died the following morning, six weeks after the speech.
The Abraham Lincoln memorial is pictured at Washington D.C. on 08/01/2026.
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The words “PLUSH ONLY” appear as overlay text on the shared post but not within the memorial image itself. The phrase matches the branding of a music sync licensing company co-founded by twin brothers Shareef and Tyreef Nealy, according to plushhonly.com. The firm places songs from indie artists and producers in television shows, films, and advertisements, according to plushhonly.com. The post stated no connection between that company and the Lincoln image.
For an average reader, the post carries no policy directive, no spending figure, and no announced action. It sits among a steady stream of daily messages from the president, who has posted 16 times so far today.
This is not the first time Trump has invoked Lincoln in his messaging. He has repeatedly cited the wartime president as a Republican forebear and reference point, drawing comparisons that historians have debated. The Second Inaugural remains among the most quoted presidential speeches in American history, carved into the north wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
No further action or statement tied to the post has been announced, and no date for one has been set. The image stands as a standalone tribute rather than a formal declaration.
Lincoln’s words have outlived their author by more than a century. He wrote the Second Inaugural in the final weeks of a war that killed an estimated 620,000 soldiers. The speech ran barely 700 words, one of the shortest inaugural addresses ever given. Its call for binding the nation’s wounds guided the early debates over Reconstruction, a reunification effort that stretched from 1865 to 1877 and reshaped the defeated South.
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This is Trump’s 14th Truth Social post today, out of 16 total today.
On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
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