Somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized

Meeting with black leaders in February, Trump said that Frederick Douglass was “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more”.

That’s a neat trick for someone who was buried 122 years ago, not that Trump has a clue that Douglass was an abolitionist newspaper publisher, pastor and orator. (The Guardian.)

Has Trump's saying “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more” implied that Frederick Douglass is alive?