Lord knows there’s no shortage of Donald Trump gaffes out there. So we’re honestly not sure why WaPo’s Aaron Blake is working so hard to conjure one up here:
"I remember Pearl Harbor" — President Trump to Japanese PM Shinzo Abe during a tense meetinghttps://t.co/ZXIVVmsmF1
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 28, 2018
Pearl Harbor happened 5 years before Trump was born. https://t.co/6XHnNpv0Im
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 28, 2018
And, therefore, he … shouldn’t’ve known about it?
One of those weird events where if you didn't live through it, you have no idea that it happened.
— A Ban For All Seasons (@Michigan_P1) August 28, 2018
Area reporter thinks that when Texans say, "Remember the Alamo," what we mean is to recall our contemporaneous accounts. https://t.co/tLrs9uRj2I
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) August 28, 2018
So we had to be alive to remember events? Crap. I guess he Civil War never happened. Or the Great War. Or the Apollo missions. Or the Wright brothers famous flights. Or….
— Aztec Death Whistle (@speshalist1) August 28, 2018
Every American should know what happened, and remember, at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. I remember Pearl Harbor, but wasn't born until 18 years after. That doesn't reduce my ability to have memory of the terror attack.
— Willie Vanderbrink (@OilFart1) August 28, 2018
True, I don't remember it ever being covered in history class https://t.co/goSOeB0Hwv
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) August 28, 2018
It's a day that lives in infamy. Anyone who sat in history class will remember Pearl Harbor. Stop trying so hard.
— Uncommon Common Sense (@John_Demp83) August 28, 2018
I remember Pearl Harbor too. Lots of people remember history without having been present at the event or alive when it happened. Stop picking at every. Single. Syllable. It’s obnoxious.
— slainte40 ❌ (@Jeannie39203963) August 28, 2018
Remembers history, try it sometime.
— Anna (@DelawareBarbie) August 28, 2018
While you’re at it, try not being such a shameless hack.
Aaron, you’re a partisan hack.
— Ryan Casey (@RyanCas27366112) August 28, 2018