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Donald Trump claims the Declaration of Energy Independence was signed in 1776 – the only 5 responses you need
Donald Trump’s grasp of history – or the present, for that matter – has never been the strongest.
For example, he has claimed that –
US soldiers during the Revolutionary War of the 1770s took control of the airports.
The Spanish Flu of 1917 (which actually happened in 1918) ended the Second World War (which was from 1939 to 1945).
President Andrew Jackson was angry about the Civil War – which started 16 years after he died.
Here’s how that Spanish Flu comment happened.
Even recent history goes over his head – like when he confidently stated that he was at the World Trade Centre just after it fell on 9/11 – which he wasn’t – but he called it 7-Eleven, which is a convenience store.
That time Donald Trump remembered the heroes of 7-Eleven #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/DiWYgORllb
— Laura Martínez ® (@miblogestublog) September 11, 2020
Despite not yet being an official contender for the 2024 election, Trump is well and truly in campaign mode – which means more public appearances.
At the Save America rally in Pennsylvania, the state in which the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, he decided to just shove an extra word into that declaration, so it would fit his narrative of Biden-bashing.
Trump: Pennsylvania is the commonwealth where our founding fathers declared American energy independence. Think of that. We were the first ones… pic.twitter.com/0cdaz6wYvr
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 7, 2022
That good old Declaration of Energy Independence that Americans celebrate every 4th of July, by leaving all the lights on in the house and running the hot water tap in defiance of the British.
These five reactions nailed it.
1.
OH MY GOD 🥴🤤🤦🏻♂️ https://t.co/DjYKXeMVdW
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) May 7, 2022
2.
William Penn: “I will not heat my home with your logs of oppression.”
— Woodrow Peel (@WoodyLuvsCoffee) May 10, 2022
3.
This is why Alex Baldwin stopped impersonating him on SNL. He realized he could never be as funny, or sound as inane, as the real thing. https://t.co/GB9L8ejRHO
— Eric: Antifa CRT Teacher and NFT dealer (@NotBadgers) May 7, 2022
4.
America: Sticking it to Big Horse and Big Lantern since 1776… https://t.co/b56x2xbRMW
— NeuroPsychoPhD (@SethN12) May 7, 2022
5.
England got so mad at us when we refused to buy their oil anymore. https://t.co/99nMyyz9aA
— YesBiscuit (@YesBiscuit) May 7, 2022
We’re grateful to @robglee for filling in some historical detail.
The Declaration of Energy Independence was signed by George Washington’s limo driver right after the Battle of Scranton Airport, where the Colonial Army used the atomic bomb and jello shots to defeat the British.
— Optimistic but Running Out of Patience. (@robglee) May 7, 2022
#TrumpHistory
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