I wonder who did the research for trump*'s speech on Babe Ruth. It's pretty, umm, inacurate.

[Siwsan]

You know it's bad when 'The Daily Mail' prints a lengthy article on how bad it was. These are just the high points (or low, depending). The article has the details. I wonder if he messed up Elvis as badly as he did The Babe.

President Trump bizarrely claims people 'don't know Babe Ruth was a pitcher' during Presidential Medal of Freedom tribute, then incorrectly states he played on four MLB teams

The tribute kicked off on a bizarre note when President Trump stated that 'most people don't know that [Ruth] was a pitcher'

The White House incorrectly stated that he played for four major league teams during his career as well during the ceremony

Trump also wondered aloud what Ruth's father was like at one point in his remarks just before stating that he spent his formative years in an orphanage

It was claimed that Ruth hit more home runs than the entire American League one season and has pitching records that stands to this day, which is not true

Trump did accurately state facts about Ruth's home run record and all-time slugging percentage

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6398989/President-Trump-claims-people-dont-know-Babe-Ruth-pitcher-says-played-four-MLB-teams.html?src=rss

[Submariner]

1. 'don't know Babe Ruth was a pitcher'

[yonder]

2. In tRump's mind, the Sultan of Swat only played batter.

[Guppy]

3. Rumor has it

That the babe had lot's of African American ancestry. If Trump found this out would he call him dumb?

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. ALL Baseball fans know it, but like everything else with rump, he is a complete and total

empty box.

No clue about anything at all, not one issue of history or life does he know about other than a few paragraphs he struggles to read and reread from Mein Kampf.

PS

He doesnt know a little about business, he knows NOTHING about business and that is why he has failed more miserably than any human being in history and why he has NOTHING and still owes putin 4 billion.

[LWilliams]

5. I bet he wrote it all by himself.

I bet he wrote it all by himself.

Just like the answers to Mueller's questions.

[NewJeffCT]

6. In 1927, he did hit more home runs than every other *team* in the American League

except his own - the Yankees had close to 100 home runs without Ruth's 60. No other team had more than 58.

He did the same in 1920 as well,when he hit 54 home runs and no other team had over 50.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1927.shtml

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1920.shtml

That said, Ruth played for 3 teams - The Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and one bad year with the Boston Braves, who had one of the all-time worst seasons ever - only 38 wins and 111 losses.

[rurallib]

7. "born in 1895 .... traded to the Yankees in 1920 at age 19...."

Trump forgot to mention the Babe's discovery of anti-aging drugs ----------

[RockRaven]

8. Trump's got a verbal tell

" (A lot of) people don't know..." = "I did not know"

He does this all the time, and the "unknown" things are always things anyone with a marginal familiarity with the topic does in fact know.

[Docreed2003]

9. Ugh...Trump is a fucking moron.

First, anytime that orange shithead says "Most people don't know" X, Y, or Z....what he really means is he didn't know. Anyone who is a serious fan of baseball knows Ruth was a pitcher for the Red Sox when he was traded.

Second, does no one proofread this shit for him?? I mean this shit wouldn't pass a middle school history presentation!

[Siwsan]

10. I wonder if the other presentations were as flawed

And maybe the writing was accurate when given to him, but then he had to put his own special "touch" on the facts.

[Docreed2003]

11. Perhaps

But it's just as likely he just went off script

[MiniMe]

12. He must have thought Babe Ruth was a DH

Yes, I know there was no such thing back when the Babe played. tRump's stupidity just gets on my nerves.

[struggle4progress]

13. "I wanted to give a medal of freedom to Snickers as well, but my whole staff threatened to resign"

[krawhitham]

14. It was claimed that Ruth hit more home runs than the entire American League one season

He hit more HR in 1920 (54) than any AL team hit that year


Ruth in 1920
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1920.shtml


League
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1920.shtml