The president of the us, has stated on deneme bonusu Monday that the Spanish flu of 1918 had “probably put an end to the Second world War”.
Donald Trump does not seem comfortable with the contemporary history. The american president has tangled the brushes on the dates of the two world wars, during a press conference at the White House. Questioned the epidemic of Covid-19 in the United States, Donald Trump seemed to confuse the conflict in the world.
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“The thing that is closest to it, they say, it is the great pandemic of 1917. It was terrible to lose 50 to 100 million people, and this has probably put an end to the Second world War. All the soldiers were sick. It was a terrible situation”, he launched to the journalists. With this statement, Donald Trump is guilty of a double historical confusion. The Spanish flu widespread of 1918 to 1919, and did not officially put an end to the war. The entry into war of the Americans in 1917, combined with the defeats in germany, led to the signing of the armistice of 11 November 1918.
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Trump defends his handling of the crisis
Finally, this pandemic is, of course, declared at the end of the First world war (1914-1918), and not of the Second (1939-1945). Interviewed by USA Today, an official of the White House assures that Donald Trump spoke of the first world war. According to the Centre for the control and prevention of diseases, the deployment of soldiers during this war has likely contributed to the spread of the Spanish flu because of population movements.
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The United States is today the most affected country in the world in absolute value with 163 370 deaths, according to the counting of Johns Hopkins university. When asked about the management of the epidemic, Donald Trump defended his action. “I think what we have been able to do is great, if we had not closed our borders, we would have 1.5 to 2 million people already dead. We did things well, now (…) we understand this disease, nobody understood it because no one has ever seen anything like this.”
