Donald Trump vs. World history

Donald Trump claimed the '1917' pandemic ended World War II. Here's a look at world history... according to the president.

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00:00we have to understand our history because if we don't know our history

00:03it could all happen again have to know our history

00:11the closest thing is uh in 1917 they say right the the great the great pandemic

00:19certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people

00:25probably ended the second world war

00:36the united states and italy are bound together by a shared

00:38cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to ancient rome

00:44in june of 1775 the continental congress created a unified army

00:58out of the revolutionary forces encamped around boston and new york our army manned the airport

01:05it ran the ramparts it took over the airports it did everything it had to do

01:14so they say a wall is medieval well so is a wheel a wheel is older than a wall

01:36i inherited a situation where the european union which was formed partially for this reason i guess

01:42for a lot of reasons it was formed but partially to make better or take advantage of the united

01:50states

02:09now the kurds are fighting for their land just so you understand they're fighting for their land

02:14and as somebody wrote in a very very powerful article today they didn't help us in the second

02:19world war they didn't help us with normandy as an example they mentioned names of different battles

02:32miss frederick douglas is an example of

02:35somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more i notice

02:44had andrew jackson been a little bit later you wouldn't have had the civil war

02:47he was he was a very tough person but he had a big heart and he was he was really angry

02:59that he saw what was happening with regard to the civil war

03:07history and culture so important

03:17you