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  1. How can Trump make America great again, when he doesn't even know American history. Trump's take on the Civil War: "the whole thing could have been avoided; President Andrew Jackson was upset by the war. And why didn't someone stop it anyway?" This is odd, when consider that Jackson passed away 16 years before it began. And then there was the time he thought Frederick Douglass was still alive, and the time he bought a "fixer-upper" golf course that was once home to a Civil War battle site that never took place. 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: "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 battle within 11 miles of the plaque. The exchange that followed was quintessentially Trumpian: Trump: "That was a prime site for river crossings. 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." 😂 "People crossed there, so surely, if there was a war, people were shot while crossing. It just makes sense." "How would they know that?" Trump asked when told that local historians had called his plaque a fiction. "Were they there?" "How else could they know? It's not like there are writings and contemporary accounts from the time, and anyway, who would read them?" 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.😂 Then he said the historians had spoken not to him but to "my people." But he refused to identify any underlings who might still possess the historians' names. "Write your story the way you want to write it," Trump said finally, when pressed unsuccessfully for anything that could corroborate his claim. "You don't have to talk to anybody. It doesn't make any difference. But many people were shot. It makes sense." 😂😂
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