Trump Fondly Remembers the Fake Civil War Battle That Took Place on His Golf Course
Well worth it to read the entire story
What a big story teller Trump is--even about a serious event in U.S. History!!
Trump Fondly Remembers the Fake Civil War Battle That Took Place on His Golf Course
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a54842/trump-civil-war-river-of-blood/
What do you mean you've never heard of the "River of Blood"?
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By Jack Holmes
May 2, 2017
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.............The Times article links to the paper's 2015 report on the incident, which recounted how Trump bought the course in Virginia—now renamed the Trump National Golf Club—back in 2009, and got to work getting it up to The Trump Standard. That included building a flagpole along the river complete with a plaque commemorating the "River of Blood," a dramatic name for a harrowing event that never happened. But the plaque begged to differ:
via NYTimes
"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.'"
This actually sounds like it was dictated by Trump, who in a phone interview with the Times called himself "a big history fan." Reporters from the paper told him they'd spoken with multiple local historians, all of whom said there was no Civil War event within 11 miles of the plaque. The exchange that followed was quintessentially Trumpian:
"That was a prime site for river crossings," Mr. Trump said. "So, if people are crossing the river, and you happen to be in a civil war, I would say that people were shot — a lot of them."
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..............The Trump administration's history with history is so bad because they spend their days trying to warp reality to their own devices. Sometimes that bleeds from the present to the past, and leaves you with a River of Blood.
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