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President Donald Trump delivers remarks in support of farmers and ranchers in the Roosevelt Room at the White House May 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump gets real trying to spin history

Meryl Phair
Newt Gingrich and U.S. President Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Newt Gingrich: He was Trump before Trump

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President Barack Obama, with first lady Michelle Obama, waves as they walk from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. The Obama's were returning from New York where the president addressed the United Nations General Assembly for his final time as president. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Josh Lederman
Martin Luther King Jr.; David Oyelowo in "Selma" (AP/Paramount Pictures)

"The rightness of the cause"

Joan Walsh
Barack Obama (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama's ranking doesn't matter

Elias Isquith
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. and Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

LBJ: Misunderstood by history?

Elias Isquith
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