Lincoln's Ghost Has Surprising Response To Donald Trump's Gettysburg Speech

"It reminded me of my address."

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton may now be ignoring Donald Trump in the run up to the presidential election.

But the “ghost” of former President Abraham Lincoln still has something to say about the current GOP nominee. The specter of the Republican Party’s first president made a spooky appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday.

And he gave a surprising reaction to Trump’s speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday — the same town where Lincoln gave his celebrated Civil War address.

Trump was supposed to have been using the platform to lay out what he’d do in his first 100 days if elected president. Yet he opened the speech with a threat to sue his sexual assault accusers.

“It reminded me of my address,” Lincoln’s ghost exclaimed to an astonished Colbert, before claiming that his advisers actually made him tone his first draft down.

Find out what Lincoln’s ghost had to say in the clip above.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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