WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump erroneously stated Monday that the Spanish Flu of 1918 ended World War II, incorrectly citing both the year the pandemic occurred and the year that the Second World War ended.
"The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic. It certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people, probably ended the Second World War," Trump said."All the soldiers were sick. That was a terrible situation."
I think there should be massive investment in public schools...
He probably believes that!
And you wonder how he passed Wharton business college. Trump needs a script writer and TelePrompTer more the ever. E can’t put facts and event together. “Illiterate Trump” leader of the GOP!
Such a non-educated, basic shit
You spelled stupidly wrong.
Trump does not know anything different that the news and the journalists who criticized him! Tweeting is what he had done in 4 years and of course misleading USA people! More than 267000 USA’s deaths due to Trump late & disastrous response to pandemia. Vote blue!
Do you really expect him to say something accurate?
realDonaldTrump HeIsAMoron dumptRump
America is a debt-ridden and crisis-ridden country, so the rich should put pressure on the people, but the American people will not tolerate this injustice and will soon have new jobs and governments, elections for several new American countries.
Wharton is screwing with us.
Idiot!!
Trump: 'Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?' The Press: 'Forget it, he's rolling!' Come on CNN CNNPolitics MSNBC FoxNews washingtonpost nytimes call him out on his bulls**t! TrumpIsAMoron TrumpPressConference InterruptTrump
The Spanish Flu started in the US.
the drugs are killing d. trump. they need to get him off of them !
Get it right and start packing!
48Gailschwerdt Anyone else the opposing party should be demanding brain scans.
When you are that far advanced in age it is hard to moved from a style that you believe is the best for you. Being an elder statesmen is not a title & honor bestowed upon all. Biden & him are the same age range, yet he speaks of advanced aging and memories. All made mistakes.
We all know he made a mistake as seen by the international world. He needs researchers, speech writers and then most of the ability to read and deliver the content accurately. Greater attention to detail is needed. Can someone in the white House sit with him and help him please!
The President of all people should know his History! Instead of being on Twitter every night! He needs to read about our History and have the knowledge and understanding of it. Just saying
What stopped the plague? The most popular theory of how the plague ended is through the implementation of quarantines. The uninfected would typically remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary, while those who could afford to do so.
While the global pandemic lasted for two years, a significant number of deaths were packed into three especially cruel months in the fall of 1918.Mar 3, 2020
He says 'two' instead of 'one', as in WWI was probably ended by the Spanish Flu. (WWI ended in 1918.) But you guys are okay with this:
But sleepy Joe
Nobody knows better than me...fake news! Next!
boris3324 Deliberate.
Come on ProjectLincoln do your thing
He just slipped, it happens. American society is obsessed with WWII after all.
Well, he always means what he says, per his press scy- we should never have to assume we know what he “meant”. He is a liar, couldn’t pass high school history nor could he pass the citizenship test. “It is what it is” he’s dumb 🤯🤬
Covefe flu!
He’s dumb
And Obama said there are 57 states and misspelled RESPECT Stop with the Gotcha reporting
Where are you, USA Today when Biden does this? You, two faced hypocrite!!
POTUS I don’t understand why you’re not just smiling and waving or back in the bunker at this point 🤐
gll1956 *1918 in the United States. If that's the benchmark, the world should be battling COVID-20
FYI: Spanish Flu first broke out in 1917. My Great Uncle came down with it shortly before he was due to deploy to Europe in 1917! Get your facts straight!!!!!
SleepyDonald '1917 Spanish Flu ended WW2' D.Trump realDonaldTrump
Hero of the stupids.
He has referenced WWI dozens of not hundreds of times in the past. You know this was innocent misspeak. Only a child would attack for this comment
IsTrumpSmarterThanA5thGrader I am not so sure DrunkHistoryTrump
LochnerWalter Trumpyboy is sick! whenYou knowAbout a virus &Let itGet out of controlCutPrograms thatCould of helped & do nothing,LetPeople dieYour golfy game & rallying is more imporrtantThen theAmericanPeople! YourDuty is helping the AmericanPeopleNot HurtingThem InEveryWayYou can2distroy 😠
NEWS Flash: Trump is right
This guy is truly a madd man.
u2_randy He’s very ignorant about history, we all know that. He’s a failed businessman though too, that’s also something we know but turn a blind eye to as we watch him financially destroy America. His selfish narcissism is a public health issue.
Make sure little Donnie returns to school with the other kids.
His own grandfather died in the Flu epidemic apparently. That's another interesting layer to how little this guy cares about anything or how limited his intelligence is.
Open that mouth and let stupidity spill out!!!!!
he really set his supporters up to believe anything he says. he can spew lies all day long and they’ll just say he “misspoke” or defend what is obviously a lie
Who SenatorCollins always backs, it makes me very concerned. Maine do better vote for SaraGideon VoteOutSusanCollins VoteOutCorruptGOP GOPCorruptionOverCountry GOPcowards GOPBetrayedAmerica VoteOutCollins SaveTheUSPS DrunkTrumpHistory VoteTrumpOut Follow USPS
Meanwhile, Joe Biden doesn’t know the difference between his sister and his wife.
Oh good one ! You really got him! 🙄 He obviously misspoke. He had the date right, but said second instead of first. But sure, let's have another day of Trump is stupid, Trump is bad. Your journalistic integrity and acumen are awe-inspiring.
I heard that too, when he said it, I was like that is totally untrue. Sometimes I wonder did he really attend school. Some of the things he says are just silly and unlearned. I’m amazed a guy of his stature is so ignorant amount a number of things. Baffling!
Oh my god I’ve never witnessed a more stupid person in a position of power
he is way past being ashamed or embarrassed at showing how REALLY REALLY STUPID HE IS!
Oops, a little slip of the 👅.. Certainly not a Master of Disaster like Joey’s normal diatribe!! 😂
And then there were those big bombs that ended the Second World War, just in case anyone forgot
Quite the “Jenius” figurehead of the GOP hahahahaha Brains? Nah. Intelligence? Is that a new MickeyD’s food item? This guy needs to be relieved of duties requiring a rational mind, he doesn’t have one and lacks the brains and intelligence of a responsible Potus. DebauchedDon
And bye the bye and I’ll post on multiple places it was no more ‘Spanish Flu’ than it is currently ‘China flu’. It was simply what the press called it. But everyone seems happen to let that inaccuracy slide. Another benefit of history I guess ?
With everything going on you want to write about a gaffe? Wow! You be you!
VickyisGrateful 🤦🤦🤦
To be fair, I know many people who get confused with history... granted they are elementary kids, but whatevs.
He just does not know what he is doing nor talking about!!!!!!!!!
How can Republicans continue to support this idiot?
Cute how you jump all over this and Biden says nutty stuff all day everyday and nothing
I have a spare copy. Any ideas who I can give it to ?
TYPICAL TROUBLED TRUMP INADEQUACY!
Now do Biden!
TRUMP HAS HIS SENSE OF HISTORY JUMBLED LIKE CRAZY.. IF THAT'S HOW HE THINKS, I PREDICT HIS DEBATE WITH MR JOE BIDEN, WILL BE THEN. . . SUCH AN UPSETTING EMBARASSMENT!!!
Fake years.. trying to discredit his stable genius
All you dockbirds and wharf rats that have never misspoke, I hear you. If you're a human though... you've screwed the pooch citing facts. Come on man!!!!
Shit for brains
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no
Not to many adults could have screwed up this one!
csin1957 Gotcha! You worry more about trump’s mistakes re: history rather than calling him out for his lies & probable criminal behavior! Please, get your priorities focused upon reporting the news that MATTERS! All news orgs need to do this, esp. in the days leading up to the Election.
he’s so embarrassing
He really is that dumb!!!!
...kind of like Obama saying there are 51 states...or Biden flubbing up the Preamble...
He’s just a dunce.
Oh my-really? This is news to USA Today. 😴
He actually said the *1917* Spanish Flu, which makes it even worsr
Well maybe a Trump created WWIII will end Covid19.
Funny how you analyze every single word he says, looking for a mistake. Yet Joe Biden speaks nothing but mistakes and you ignore it completely. You people are a joke.
I wonder was that a question on Melania’s US citizenship exam
He’s an idiot. He didn’t misspeak, he wasn’t joking... he’s just stupid.
Yes Trump knows History really well, NOT!
When is it safe to call this man a stupid person?
If you do your research, then you wouldn’t call it the Spanish flu. Smh...
He has to be the DUMBEST person to ever to have made it to the oval office
Haha, I guess you do learn something new everyday. I had no idea
Trump, of course, meant, World War I. It ended on November 11, 1918 and is observe each year as Armistice Day in the UK and Veterans Day in USA. Trump participates in those observances and knows when WW1 was fought. Whether Obama knows we don't have 57 states is another matter.
You know Trump makes fun of this exact crowd! And you all just proved him right! Is it that hard to be adult about this? He made a mistake, its a minor one. He has done and said far worse. This makes everything look pathetic
Wow, and he questions Biden’s mental fitness? LoserTrump
sounds like something Biden would say.
American soldiers spread 1918 flu from Kansas where started to Europe and world. 50 million mistake? Or need to make money with weapons trade? Now Sturgis spreaders will kill our economy for another 6 mos. Shut it down.
He's the absolute dumbest!
He also says 50 to 100 million people were lost. Estimates are it was 20-50 million.
To the American public, this is your president, he is not very intelligent, something is definitely wrong, you the people will suffer the consequences, the fact that 60 million are blind to the characteristics of the worst president signals a deep rooted problem in USA.
Expect No facts no truth from a tyrant.
Needs to do the Montreal test again
Maybe Trump should revisit that cognitive test he did so well on.
False news! It's just a big flu. It'll be gone by June.
Always making excuses for his dumb lies and mistakes. Face the facts he has no clue what he is talking about.
17 is the cue for qann folks. That's the reason.
Turning into Joe!!!
the spanish flu’s first KNOWN recorded case was in 1916- the worst of it was in 1918
How are trumper's gonna explain away this? Like they did with the injecting disinfectants gaff.
Oh you know those that drink Trumps KOOLAID will defend him Disinfectant Don is just plain STUPID !!!
Is the reason Trump always refers to Spanish Flu in 1917 instead of 1918 in any way related to the death of his grandfather, Frederick Trump.
The Liar in Chief's brain is missing or is it another one of his alternative facts?
And Joe Biden thinks he running for senate so there’s that
.DoTardDonny Trump
If you spent 1/2 the time fact checking yourselves as you do the President you could possibly no longer be calked fake news. If course that means actually doing your job.
.Dotard
Did he really? 🤦♂️
This President is a Total Moron! Doesn’t even know his Own Country’s History!! It’s Time For Him To Go!! Mr. Trump Your Fired!!!👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼
Ehhh manistream media! you dont behave yourself. Lets talk about Obamagate, Spygate, Uranium Gate?
Every single day it’s something. Tump is a national embarrassment.
Does the man ever study historical information?
About sums it all up...
Kayleigh McEnany trying to figure out how she’s gonna fix this
The Ministry of Truth begs to differ
Do expect him to claim today he ended WW2 and WW3.
Person, woman, man, camera, 1917
Once again UPenn shakes it’s head in disbelief that this moron is an alum.
Tell your president 😅
Wait, what. I thought the Spanish Flu only affect Spanish people and that two guys, Fat Man and Little Boy, met with Enola Gay on a Boxxcar and that caused the Great Depression. I should have gone to Wharton Business School cuz then I’d be POTUS smart.
The listening public is well aware that this president has a below average education
So stupid
That was on his test and nobody told him I guess.
50 min presser and this is the story? Goodness, do better media.
McHale003 Impeach him he misspoke.
SalVadacchino1
Could be a lot worse... 🤷♂️
DavisLilian A better caption: “Man born less than a year after the end of WW2 doesn’t know when WW2 ended.”
Just stop. He lied and continues to do so. So some respect to your readers who aren’t morons or sycophants. Do better
President of the US doesn’t even have a grasp of 5th grade civics. That’s what his supporters want? An imbecile?!?
All I know is, the continental army took over the airports and the Spanish flu of 1918 ended WW2.
Cognitive difficulties
Maybe Trump thought that Spanish Flu was the name of the guy who signed Japan's surrender documents aboard the USS MISSOURI in August, 1945
Well yeah, dude has shit for brains
It's shocking that a American doesn't know history
And Joe Biden gets things wrong? An unwillingness to learn keeps Trump making these mistakes, or is he beyond learning at this point?
Bit hard the SS shooting someone just to stop corrupt perverted trump from digging his hole any deeper!
Just say Trump lied again.
No wonder'Trump' won't Show'College Transcripts'!!!!!!
He was sarcastic
President Trump does not make mistakes. He has alternative facts
When rapey Joe Biden makes a mistake it's all chuckles and supportive hugs from the media. Not as much for Trump.
The left are so thick, they have to have Trumps error slowly and carefully explained to them.
Why does he speak about Biden talking nonsense? He doesn’t know history if it hit him in the face.
Staggering human toll... a virus with a 99% survival rate? 😂😂 COVID19 coronavirus Plandemic Scamdemic NWO TheGreatReset TheGreatAwakeningWorldwide
Uneducated in history. Uneducated in life😪
The dementias popping out
He want WW111? What a nonsense this guy is uttering! Simply diverting attention form his administrative failures.
He meant WW1, big deal!
He knows a lot about flu's and history. Probably more than anyone else. A lot of people say that...
Oh no, realDonaldTrump made a mistake. Breaking news
The Spanish flu, which originated in Kansas, bit the Spanish were the first to report on it
If the “Chinese virus” is racist, what about the “Spanish flu”?
Might have been an honest mistake?
Erroneously you say and I say the man never sat one day in school past the 6th grade.
WWI ended in 1918.
Don’t you people see what his doing come on news .. be smart he says 1 date wrong and that’s all on over twitter.. he knows what his doing playing everyone. Be smarter stop with the small stuff go after the big and unforgettable things he does. Come on!
😐
Wow. You caught Trump with the kind of mistake that senile Biden makes every time he opens his mouth, yet you never report or point them out. Shame on you, FakeNews.
Can’t wait to see Trump destroy Biden in a debate. 😆
He is real sleepy Trump not Biden!
More tests required for this one and I don’t mean COVID-19.
It was also the `US flu` it started in Kansas.
But Joe Biden has dementia is the new but her emails. Trump looks like an idiot daily.
USA today never goes after Biden's mistakes, only Republican.
For being so highly educated (sic), he seems to have serious problems... just saying.
The stable genius Trump has the intelligence level of a corn cob.
He probably was saying that to see if we were all following (he was also joking at the same time), not because he doesn’t know jack shit about anything but pretend to.
Talking gibberish, addled brain nonsense.
DrunkHistoryTrump idiot
If Trump wins a 2nd term, we will know beyond doubt that he cheated.
You gets what you votes for ! it is what it is. BAFFOON not fit to sit as President.
It prolly did
You know very well what he ment. How many times people think right but say incorrect things, all its needed friendly reminder...There is no need making mouse into elephant...And its true, during wars many people die, not from bullets, but from diseases
Comparing COVID to Spanish Flu over 100yrs old, travel back then was not as easy
Especially egregious considering the 75th anniversary of dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki literally just passed -- like days ago
Even the ‘what he meant to say’ excuses don’t make sense
AND. NOT. ONE. REPORTER. CORRECTED. HIM. ALL WH Pressnshould resign, no balls and all fear. Ignorant on facts too. All, no exceptions, all are terrible.
LMFAO. 🤣 Even better: the so called spannish flu was actually brought in Europe by GI in 1917. It was called so because Spain was the only country where information was not censured and let it know about it.
🤪🙄
Fucking joke
How is this news? Propaganda
Thank you for explaining what most thinking Americans already knew. When is this psychopathic farce of a human being going to packed up & swept out of the Whitehouse?
To be fair, he’s a babbling idiot.
It didn’t even ‘end’ WW1 and was almost certainly spread by the mass movement of Troops returning home
PersonWomanManCameraTV
So clueless
He’s an idiot.
I’m shocked that he is saying things that are probably false.
'The President is an Idiot' There, I fixed it for you.
What he did?
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