The FLOSS Fucks Up V-E Day

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation designating Thursday as a day for the United States to celebrate victory in World War II as countries in Europe already do.
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“Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II. I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I,” he said last week on social media. “We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything — That’s because we don’t have leaders anymore, that know how to do so! We are going to start celebrating our victories again!”

He can't open his mouth without revealing his deep ignorance and shallow understanding of anything whatsoever. Let's detail a few, shall we?

• Fighting was going on in the Pacific and would until the Japanese surrendered in August.
• The Soviet Union had a small campaign going on against the Germans, in which they suffered something like sixty times the casualties of the United States.
• When the Allies named a supreme military commander in World War I, it was French Army General Ferdinand Foch. American troops didn't show up on the battlefield until the spring of 1918. More damning, American commanders adopted the "hey, diddle, diddle, straight up the middle" frontal assault tactics that the more-seasoned commanders in other armies, by that time in the war, knew were ineffective and which did little except produce high casulaties. American troops did supply the edge in both fresh units and morale that helped defeat the Germans, but the bulk of the fighting and the commanding was done by the British and the French.

Trump knows as much about history, or anything for that matter, as the average housepet. If he had gone on the show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader", he would have been flayed.

And this, of course:

Trump is on the side of fascism, as was his party in the 1930s. It's kind of bitterly amusing that he is so keen on taking credit for what people in his party originially called "Mister Roosevelt's War" and who did everything they could to defund both the American military and deny aid to the Allies, whether out of naïve isolationism or a desire to see fascism win is still debatable.

With his affinity for Hitler and Nazi Germany, it's a safe bet that Trump believes that we fought on the wrong side of the war.