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Hours after President-elect Trump offered a salute to the statue of Abe Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to start his inauguration welcome ceremony, civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton urged the president-elect to have a conversation with the 16th president to get a better grip on what is wrong and right.

Speaking to thousands of anti-Trump protesters gathered in New York City on Thursday, Sharpton assailed Trump for getting upset at Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, for questioning the legitimacy of Trump's Election Day victory after U.S. intelligence concluded Russian hackers meddled in the election process.

He said that after Trump spent years attempting to smear President Obama as "not a legitimate president," now Trump is having a "temper tantrum" about an election allegedly tainted by foreign influence.

"Your politics started by trying to 'delegitimize' the sitting president's nationality," Sharpton said.

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Calling attention to Trump's appearance before the Lincoln Memorial, Sharpton said to Trump: "You need to talk to President Lincoln."

He said Lincoln would explain to Trump that slavery and oppression is wrong and that "states' rights whether it's on healthcare, on teachers on education is wrong."

"We're not going backwards," Sharpton declared, before raising up a smartphone and daring Russian hackers to target it.

Other speakers at the rally Thursday evening included liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and actors Robert de Niro and Alec Baldwin, who has made several unflattering turns impersonating the president-elect on "Saturday Night Live."

Many of the speakers encouraged attendees and Americans across the nation to take part in "100 days of resistance," a movement started by Moore to push back against Trump's policies.

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