I don't think it's necessarily an error --- if he wants May 8 to (for whatever reason) commemmorate the end of the entire war, then one of the most iconic images of the war in the Pacific makes perfect sense.
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It is an error. You don’t have to pretend you don’t understand just so they can pretend they didn’t screw it up.
may 8, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
The Pacific part of the war was still ongoing, that's 100% a mistake.
may 8, 2025, 3:44 pm • 3 0 • view
My point is just the mistake is the President trying to convert May 8 into an overall victory celebration - that's the historical anachronism, but having aggresively and wrongly decided to do that, using a Pacific image isn't inconsistent with *his* concept for the "holiday."
may 8, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't really care for this kind of Trump Whisperer nonsense where you see something that Trump did that's clearly incredibly fucking stupid and then try to twist it in a way that makes sense of it. No, he's just dumb and malicious.
may 8, 2025, 3:54 pm • 5 0 • view
Fair enough. I don't think this is sane-washing so much as suggesting a possibility that the image was chosen to advance his stated goal. But it was an offhand comment not really worth futher debate. To each their own.
may 8, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I think it's useful to figure out *which* mistake Trump made and *how* he made it, so long as it doesn't slide into "and therefore he's kinda right, if you think about it", which you didn't do.
may 8, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t be a melt. May 8th is called VE Day (Victory in Europe Day). The Pacific War ended later. That image is specifically from the Pacific campaign. It makes zero sense.
may 8, 2025, 4:23 pm • 6 0 • view
Yeah. Post a picture that has zero to do with the end of the war in Europe. Perfectly sensible....
may 8, 2025, 3:01 pm • 5 0 • view
He only posted it because it had an American flag. I’ll bet that Trump could not tell you (if asked) what Generals Montgomery, Eisenhower, Patton, Marshallor McArthur did during WW2, nor what Admirals Halsey or Nimitz commanded.
may 8, 2025, 3:12 pm • 8 0 • view
If only President George Herbert Walker Bush and Senators Robert Dole and Daniel Inouye were still alive and mentally alert to roast Trump over the coals over this reimagined WW2 timeline. Those of us whose fathers or mothers served in WW2 need to call out this stupidity.
may 9, 2025, 1:47 am • 1 0 • view