John,

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous Gettysburg Address during the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery.

At the time, our nation was facing an unprecedented crisis. We were in the midst of a deadly Civil War that tested whether our country and our democracy "could long endure." Lincoln's words that day proved he was the leader our country needed to get through this difficult time.

But just last year, our country faced another devastating crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep the nation and claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Take a look at how differently Donald Trump handled tragedy:

Lincoln:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Trump:
"It is what it is." (Regarding the number of Americans who have died from COVID-19)

Both Trump and Lincoln were our nation's leaders during times of unprecedented crisis. Both saw hundreds of thousands of Americans die during their presidency -- with COVID-19 deaths officially surpassing the 750,000 killed during the Civil War. Yet while Lincoln delivered one of the most stirring speeches in honor of the lives lost, Trump simply said "It is what it is."

That's not real leadership.

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