Tweet nothing – a two-minutespeech is more Presidential

afriend really doesn’t like President Trump, especially the way he Tweets all the time.

“The US has gone from Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address to this Tweeter in less than a century and a half,” he snorted while we had a beer in the pub last week.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him I didn’t know what the Gettysburg Address was, so can you tell me more, Queries Man? – B.

I think what your friend was driving at is that Trump’s Tweets – messages posted in 280 characters or less – such as: “Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart” can be rather silly.

However, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address of 1863, known as one of the world’s greatest ever speeches, was just 272 words long.

The speech was delivered at the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest, most decisive battles of the American Civil War.

His carefully crafted address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose.

In just over two minutes Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the American Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle that would bring true equality to all of its citizens.

There is only one photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg and it’s thought that his speech was so brief, the photographers were caught unaware and failed to properly capture the historical moment.