Trump: 1918 Spanish Flu 'probably ended' WWII, which happened two decades apart
So...the President Said this today:
So...the President Said this today:
tulc(heard the 1917 pandemic may have closed all the airports during the American Revolution as well)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 events took place more than two decades apart.
"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."