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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump "didn't know people died from the flu." It killed his grandfather.
Trump continued: I never heard those numbers. I wouldve been shocked. I wouldve said, Does anybody die from the flu? I didnt know people died from the flu.
And again, you had a couple of years where it was over a 100,000 people died from the flu.
The president is correct. Seasonal influenza has killed 12,000 to 61,000 people in the United States every year since 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been several years where more than 100,000 Americans were killed by particularly nasty influenza strains.
One of those episodes was the 1958 pandemic, which killed 116,000 in the United States.
Another was 1918.
That is the year Trumps paternal grandfather died.
He died of the flu.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1440
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/27/the-story-of-donald-trumps-grandfather-who-came-to-the-u-s-as-an-unaccompanied-minor/
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)he didnt know
what else doesnt this moron know?
Have MERCY
3catwoman3
(24,031 posts)Neither does Trump. He has survival a=savvy and cunning, but knowledgeable he aint.
The meaning of that statement above feels different, depending on which word you emphasize, but is equally true no matter which way:
He/she doesnt KNOW anything.
He/she doesnt know ANYTHING.
He/she doesnt know ANYTHING!
elleng
(131,073 posts)both in nyc (as I suspect his was.)
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Very appealing to his voters, who like to think he's one of them.
RockRaven
(14,990 posts)Even with it being his grandfather's cause of death.
First of all, it was before he was born, and as far as Dolt45 cares, the world began the day he was born and will cease to exist the moment he dies.
Secondly, ignorance of, and indifference towards, even his closest relatives' infirmities and sufferings is EXACTLY what one ought to expect out of Dolt45 given all of his public behavior to date.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)RussBLib
(9,032 posts)everyone but you
asshole!
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Or heard about the electoral college win?
dweller
(23,651 posts)not accessible any longer
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