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No legitimate American historian would call any of Trump’s behavior during his chaotic occupation of the White House Lincolnesque.

Its founder, Job Harriman, was a Lincolnesque preacher and lawyer from Indiana.

It is equally difficult to apply Lincolnesque lessons to the smaller conflicts, so unlike the Civil War, that have dogged our presidents since then — except to assume that Lincoln would have steered clear of them.

Quiet and scholarly, this “grim, Lincolnesque” man, as a writer once described him, seemed to be the antithesis of a celebrity maestro.

The White House defended President Trump’s “gut” instincts on hiring advisers such as John R. Bolton who later turn on him, saying the president seeks a Lincolnesque “team of rivals” in the West Wing.