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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Back in 1867, Democratic President Harry Truman (1884-1972) tried to buy Greenland"
jesus fucking christ.
Link to tweet
tanyev
(48,516 posts)https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/danish-pm-says-she-was-surprised-learn-trump-canceled-trip-n1044771
Has he EVER called a man "nasty"?
Irish_Dem
(78,907 posts)I guess Trump has never been treated in a nasty way by most people.
What a spoiled entitled nepotism baby.
tanyev
(48,516 posts)Irish_Dem
(78,907 posts)Cha
(316,254 posts)Ocelot II
(128,707 posts)and Truman suggested it in secret, without being a dick about it. Here's the story: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753192368/fact-check-did-harry-truman-really-try-to-buy-greenland-back-in-the-day
CatWoman
(80,222 posts)KS Toronado
(22,703 posts)
Wounded Bear
(63,710 posts)Ocelot II
(128,707 posts)wnylib
(25,355 posts)I am old, but not that old.
Truman was not born yet in 1867.
Ocelot II
(128,707 posts)vanessa_ca
(611 posts)and negotiated for Greenland too.
Please tell me that was spliced... or that she misread her notes. Not that I have much room to talk because I didn't pay attention to the bad date.
wnylib
(25,355 posts)regard to history.
If I mention that my mother's parents were immigrants from Germany as very young children in 1888 and 1890, people ask if their families were Jews fleeing Nazis, or if they were Nazi resisters or Nazis themselves.
Even when I give dates for the Nazi party's development and rise to power, they don't get it until I spell out that my grandparents grew up in the US and were adult US citizens with American born children during the FIRST World and one of their adult sons fought as a US soldier AGAINST Germany in WWII.
harumph
(3,066 posts)Apparently, they were sleeping in class or didn't give a shit. Either way...
Cha
(316,254 posts)Fucking Nasty Ugly Demented Fascist Asshole.
LisaM
(29,460 posts)And it worked.
brush
(61,033 posts)Whoever that republican harpy is she's going on like she knows what she's talking about.
God, the ignorance has taken over.
Deuxcents
(25,213 posts)Sogo
(6,919 posts)How'd you do that, Harry??
question everything
(51,585 posts)CatWoman
(80,222 posts)vanessa_ca
(611 posts)Turbineguy
(39,752 posts)Obama tried to buy it in 1862.
JoseBalow
(9,061 posts)applegrove
(129,772 posts)I've noticed on the internet that AI is starting to state the wrong dates and the wrong places on posts. That is the degradation of space and time. Maybe Fox is into it too. People will not be able to fact check history at all if they have no sense of year or place.
Johonny
(25,218 posts)No one ever credits the importance of Washington's air superiority over the British.
Norbert
(7,509 posts)He became president of the United Stated 17 years before he was born.
struggle4progress
(125,285 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(6,720 posts)In 1867, seventeen years before he was born, Harry Truman tired to buy Greenland as president 78 years before he became president in 1945.
Thanks Fox.
CentralMass
(16,824 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,882 posts)... I noticed how quickly the others corrected her! I don't think she even had the President correct... at least not when there was a serious offer. History and historical context means nothing to them.
yellowcanine
(36,701 posts)end the Civil War!
Alternative history is fun!
Tommy Carcetti
(44,362 posts)Passages
(3,986 posts)Thanks for posting!
spanone
(140,862 posts)Johonny
(25,218 posts)And pretend we all aren't fucked