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Did Trump know what D-Day was before the German prime minister brought it up? (Original Post) milestogo Jun 2025 OP
No Johonny Jun 2025 #1
Donald Day IronLionZion Jun 2025 #2
He know enough to call those Men 'Suckers and Losers" Turbineguy Jun 2025 #3
He probably has heard of DDay but has no idea what it is, or what happened that day. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #4
He doesn't see it beyond a tortured sports analogy EYESORE 9001 Jun 2025 #6
Yes everything is a game to him. Irish_Dem Jun 2025 #10
No. But he knows all about Arnold Palmer's dick. Walleye Jun 2025 #5
Unless you count porn as movies. milestogo Jun 2025 #17
Well, yes and I guess porn is important. But I'm talking about important, movies, history, etc.. Walleye Jun 2025 #20
I'm sure he did. JohnnyRingo Jun 2025 #7
Yeah I think that's it. milestogo Jun 2025 #9
Trump: "D day is the one day a year SocialDemocrat61 Jun 2025 #8
I doubt it. SheltieLover Jun 2025 #11
Dividend Day! /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 2025 #12
Probably. karynnj Jun 2025 #13
Vaguely, I presume. To our shame, trump was president for the 75 year anniversary... Wounded Bear Jun 2025 #14
yes, but remember, donnie is a bigot through and through. he thinks of groups as individuals. unblock Jun 2025 #15
Just like the concept that most of America hates living under TSF and look forward to being liberated from him. milestogo Jun 2025 #16
yup. but similarly, he thinks what's good for him personally is what's good for america. no difference. unblock Jun 2025 #18
Since he attended D-Day remembrances in the past, it is very likely he was aware sarisataka Jun 2025 #19
No, but he figures the "d" stands for usedtobedemgurl Jun 2025 #21

Irish_Dem

(79,722 posts)
10. Yes everything is a game to him.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:12 AM
Jun 2025

Someone wins, someone loses.

The loss of life or patriotism mean nothing to him.

Walleye

(43,807 posts)
5. No. But he knows all about Arnold Palmer's dick.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:04 AM
Jun 2025

He’s not only never read a book. Apparently he’s never even watched a movie.

Walleye

(43,807 posts)
20. Well, yes and I guess porn is important. But I'm talking about important, movies, history, etc..
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:38 AM
Jun 2025

And I guess you can learn from pornography. I don’t know never been that into it.

JohnnyRingo

(20,493 posts)
7. I'm sure he did.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:07 AM
Jun 2025

I just think he said something stupid. So stupid he should not be in a position of power.

In his over simplistic binary mind he saw that we won and Germany lost, so he was extending some kind of acknowledgment that it was a bad day for Nazi Germany. Too stupid to realize the current government is unconnected to that regime.

Any normal person would have shrunk in embarrassment, but he's too stupid to even recognize it.

karynnj

(60,775 posts)
13. Probably.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:25 AM
Jun 2025

The error more likely could have been assuming all Germans, including those not alive in 1945, identify with the Nazis as their side.

This might be another part of the authoritarian mindset that he and most Republicans have. As has been noted here many times, Republicans tend to line up behind their leaders. Democrats are more likely to question their country when they think it is wrong.

Trump is 100 percent an authoritarian.

Wounded Bear

(63,822 posts)
14. Vaguely, I presume. To our shame, trump was president for the 75 year anniversary...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:28 AM
Jun 2025

and traveled to France to "honor" it.

unblock

(55,903 posts)
15. yes, but remember, donnie is a bigot through and through. he thinks of groups as individuals.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 08:43 AM
Jun 2025

obviously, he thinks negative stereotypes about minorities and women apply to members of those groups. that's basic bigotry. but donnie is in for that logic completely, for any group. he's far too stupid to differentiate within groups.

new york didn't vote for him? punish new yorkers (when he pushed to limit the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes) doesn't matter to him that there are lots of republicans in new york, doesn't even matter to him that that limitation disproportionately affects richer new yorkers, who are more likely to be republican.

a few people on a small admissions committee didn't admit barron, so he wants to destroy harvard in its entirety.

maine's governor hurt his fee-fees so he froze funds for food for maine schoolchildren. because "maine" was mean to him, so he hits back at maine.


so, d-day was a bad day for germany because it was the beginning of the end for germany in the war, and he's talking to the leader of germany, so it was a bad day for germany and a bad day for him.


the concept that most of germany hated living under hitler and they were happy to be liberated from that is completely lost on him. he's far too simplistic for that.

milestogo

(22,545 posts)
16. Just like the concept that most of America hates living under TSF and look forward to being liberated from him.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:01 AM
Jun 2025

unblock

(55,903 posts)
18. yup. but similarly, he thinks what's good for him personally is what's good for america. no difference.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:22 AM
Jun 2025

he's a "l'etat, c'est moi" kind of guy.

"make america great again" means "make donnie rich and powerful". same thing.

he *is* america, in his own mind.

anyone who disagrees is unamerican and should be in prison or exiled.

sarisataka

(22,216 posts)
19. Since he attended D-Day remembrances in the past, it is very likely he was aware
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:27 AM
Jun 2025

I find it more alarming that he sees the current German government a spiritual successor to the Nazi regime

usedtobedemgurl

(1,927 posts)
21. No, but he figures the "d" stands for
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:09 AM
Jun 2025

Democrat and just wrote an EO barring D Day from our country!

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