In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History

[Jarqui]

Source: New York Times

Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.” “Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ” The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump’s full name, concludes: “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”

Like many of Mr. Trump’s claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked. “No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there,” said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site. “The only thing that was remotely close to that,” Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed. “The River of Blood?” he added. “Nope, not there.”

.. But no one died in that crossing, historians said, or in any other notable Civil War engagement on the spot. .... Mr. Trump repeatedly said that “numerous historians” had told him that the golf club site was known as The River of Blood. But he said he did not remember their names.
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Members of what he renamed the Trump National Golf Club, and some former employees, said the plaque generally drew laughter or eye-rolls, much as when Mr. Trump periodically descends from his helicopter to walk one course or the other. One member, a former history professor and a co-author of four Civil War novels, called the monument merely “strange.”

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President Trump "Today, I nuked Moscow and Mecca, America. Someone, I can't remember who, tweeted they saw Russian jets coming to get us and the Muslims were jumping up and down, laughing about it. I just retweeted to NORAD with the order ... "Get them the HELL outta here!!" ... Like I said to Bill O'Reilly "Am I gonna check every tweet?" ... "

[Gregorian]

1. I can see it now...tracing the origin of the phrase to a drunk racist 90 year old in a cabin.

[Botany]

2. Oh my Dog! Trump Built a Monument to a Fake Civil War Battle on His Golf Course

Unfortunately for any Trump National members looking to spoil a good walk with some history,
“The River of Blood” is something somebody just made up.


http://gawker.com/trump-built-a-monument-to-a-fake-civil-war-battle-on-hi-1744416454?sidebar_promotions_icons=testingon&utm_expid=66866090-67.e9PWeE2DSnKObFD7vNEoqg.2

[roguevalley]

3. donald trump's dad's business practices. the acorn fell close to the tree

In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division filed a civil rights suit against the Trump organization charging that it refused to rent to black people. The Urban League had sent black and white testers to apply for apartments in Trump-owned complexes; the whites got the apartments, the blacks didn't. According to court records, four superintendents or rental agents reported that applications sent to the central office for acceptance or rejection were coded by race. A 1979 Village Voice article quoted a rental agent who said Trump instructed him not to rent to black people and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. In 1975, a consent decree described by the head of DOJ’s housing division as "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated," required Trump to advertise vacancies in minority papers and list vacancies with the Urban League. The Justice Department subsequently complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity."

And this ditty:

According to a New York Times article published in June 1927, a man with the name and address of Donald Trump's father was arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y. In an article subtitled "Klan assails policeman", Fred Trump is named in among those taken in during a late May "battle" in which "1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all." At least two officers were hurt during the event, after which the Klan's activities were denounced by the city's Police Commissioner, Joseph A. Warren.

“The Klan not only wore gowns, but had hoods over their faces almost completely hiding their identity,” Warren was quoted as saying in the article, which goes on to identify seven men “arrested in the near-riot of the parade.” Named alongside Trump are John E Kapp and John Marcy (charged with felonious assault in the attack on Patrolman William O'Neill and Sgt. William Lockyear), Fred Lyons, Thomas Caroll, Thomas Erwin, and Harry J Free. They were arraigned in Jamaica, N.Y. All seven were represented by the same lawyers, according to the article.

The final entry on the list reads: “Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica, was discharged.”

In 1927, Donald Trump's father would have been 21 years old, and not yet a well-known figure. Multiple sources report his residence at the time—and throughout his life—at the same address.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Just today:

NYT: "But he said he did not remember their names."

NBC: "Amid Latest Controversy, Trump Claims 'World's Greatest Memory'"

Which one is it, trumpet? Don't remember? Or world's greatest memory? Pick one.

[Fritz Walter]

5. The River of Unmitigated Gall

That flows swiftly around The Isle of Hubris.

Or did he study history with Ben Carsonoma?