Random Things That The Trump Administration Official Got History Completely Wrong (18 items)

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  (#7) Sean Spicer Straight Up Lies About Trump's Inauguration Crowd Size

  In more recent history, who can forget Inauguration-Gate? Oh those halcyon days when all anyone had to worry about was the size of Trump's inaugural crowd. The whole thing started when the Twitter feed for the National Parks Service tweeted a side-by-side comparison of Trump's inauguration crowd with President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Much to the President's chagrin, even Bernie Sanders got in on the fun. 

  .@realDonaldTrump They did. It wasn't. pic.twitter.com/xqt29RJPEr

  — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 25, 2017

  The day after the inauguration, the debacle was left to Sean Spicer to clean up, and instead of being honest about the crowd size, he threw down one of the first big lies to come from the Press Secretary's podium:

  “Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power and, as the president said, the transition and the balance of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States, some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting.”

  He went after The New York Times for tweeting photos of the crowd/doing their jobs, and then he dropped the lie that would become the basis for Trump's presidency: “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration—period—both in person and around the globe.”
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  (#13) Donald Trump Claims Few People Know Abraham Lincoln Was A Republican

  This is just a quick hit, and it's not really a lie, but it's so amusing that it has to be mentioned. In March of 2017, Trump gave a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee, and he informed the group that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Of Lincoln Trump said, "Great president. Most people don't even know he was a Republican, right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don't know that. We have to build that up a little more." To answer Trump's question. Yes, a lot of people know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, you dunce. 

  The cover of the 2017 Lincoln Day Dinner program for Republican Party of Palm Beach County tonight at Mar-a-Lago. @WPTV pic.twitter.com/SJPlB8V6qb

  — Andrew Lofholm (@AndrewLofholm) March 24, 2017

   
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  (#8) Donald Trump Claims That He Wasn't All For The Iraq War When He Definitely Was

  This lie technically happened prior to Trump's presidency, but it's so in your face that it has to be discussed. At a 2016 Indiana campaign stop, Trump claimed that he was against the Iraq war from the very beginning. He told his audience, “It should have never happened,” as Indiana Gov. Mike Pence stood by his side. “I didn’t want to go from the beginning, and I have proof – from the beginning. I didn’t want Iraq. I said you’re going to destabilize the Middle East, and that’s exactly what happened.” But here's the thing, in 2002, six months before the Iraq war, Trump appeared on The Howard Stern Show and said that said that he supported invading the Middle East. 

  This is also the guy who claims that he saw Muslims cheering during 9/11, so what else do you expect? If you want to drive yourself extra crazy, watch Donald Trump perform verbal gymnastics to Anderson Cooper in order to try and get around the fact that he was all for invading the Middle East. 

   
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  (#17) Donald And Melania Trump Mix Up Some Facts About Pearl Harbor

  National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - “A day that will live in infamy!” December 7, 1941

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2017

   

  On December 7, 2017, President Trump tweeted in recognition of the anniversary of Pearl Harbor: "A day that will live in infamy!" He was citing President Franklin Roosevelt's landmark speech, but he got it slightly wrong – Roosevelt called December 7 "a date which will live in infamy."

  As for First Lady Melania Trump, she tweeted, "Today we honor Pearl Harbor Heroes. 11/7/1941 Thank you to all military for your courage and sacrifice!" About half an hour later, the tweet was taken down and replaced with one showing the correct date.
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  (#1) Sean Spicer Claims Hitler Never Used Chemical Weapons

  On April 11, 2017, Sean Spicer didn't just shove his foot in his mouth. He somehow managed to swallow himself whole, leaving nothing more than a pin-sized hole where the former Press Secretary once stood. After President Bashar al-Assad of Syria used sarin gas to attack a village, Spicer claimed that al-Assad was worse than Hitler because Hitler, at least, didn't use chemical weapons.

  Spicer's statement ignores the fact that Hitler used gas chambers to commit genocide during the Holocaust. To make matters worse, Spicer said all of this in the middle of Passover. 
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  (#11) Donald Trump Thinks Andrew Jackson Would Have Stopped The Civil War

  In a Sirius XM interview from May 2017, Trump threw out some very weird alternate history. He claimed that if Andrew Jackson would have lived for a few more decades, then Old Hickory would have been able to put a stop to the Civil War. Trump said, "I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this.’” Trump continued to spread this idea that Jackson would have stopped the Civil War via Twitter: 

  President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2017

  The world would probably be a much better place if Trump had just become an Andrew Jackson fan fiction author instead of President of the United States of America.

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