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(4,175 posts)
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 08:33 AM Aug 2020

Trump's Brain Breaks On National TV As He Claims The Spanish Flu Ended World War II

Trump said, “I think it’s been amazing what we’ve been able to do. If we didn’t close up our country, we would have had 1.5, 2 million people already done. We’ve called it right. Now we don’t have to close it. Now we understand the disease. Nobody understood it, because nobody has seen anything like this. The closest thing was in 1917, they say, right? The great pandemic certainly was a terrible thing where they lost 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the Second World War. All the soldiers were sick. It was — that was a terrible situation. And this is highly contagious. This one is highly, highly contagious.”


https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/10/trump-spanish-flu-world-war-ii.html

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vsrazdem

(2,177 posts)
2. Trump best bet would be to keep his mouth closed between now and the election, because every
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 09:16 AM
Aug 2020

time he opens it, the stupid just flows forth.

brush

(53,784 posts)
9. Yep! We struck the dunce jackpot when we got this ignoramous as president.
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 10:46 AM
Aug 2020

He knows nothing of history.

Wrong year. Wrong about it ending the war.

And WWll?

God!

Chainfire

(17,542 posts)
3. Such an uninformed and ignorant clown
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 09:18 AM
Aug 2020

The Spanish Flu did not end the First World War either, so it can't be just a slip of the tongue......

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
6. Obviously loves the sound of his own voice. Babbles incoherently and thinks he nails it everytime.
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 09:48 AM
Aug 2020

And why not, mostly he is never called on his bullshit.

flor-de-jasmim

(2,125 posts)
7. He'd be a bit closer to the truth if he said the pandemic probably lowered the number of ...
Tue Aug 11, 2020, 09:49 AM
Aug 2020

... soldiers available to fight in WW2!

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