Trump Announces Victory Day For WWII But Gets The Date Wrong: 'A Complete Moron'
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The president said that America will celebrate Victory Day on May 8, seemingly unaware that the U.S. kept fighting for months.
President Donald Trump announced that the United States will join several nations in celebrating Victory Day on May 8, seemingly unaware that World War II only ended in Europe during that month in 1945 — as America continued fighting Japan until August.
“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 in World War II,” Trump wrote Thursday night in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.
“I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I,” he continued.
Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces on May 8, 1945, a little over a week after Adolf Hitler died by suicide inside his Berlin bunker. Russian forces had captured the German capital on May 2 after their former Soviet Union lost an estimated 24 million people to the war.
Victory Day is celebrated annually on May 8 by several former members of the Allied Powers, such as France, Poland and the United Kingdom (which calls it VE Day). Other nations, including Belarus and Russia, however, commemorate the end of hostilities from the Axis Powers on May 9.
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