Trump: The USSR became Russia. Rus(sia) goes back 860 AD

[Botany]

https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-russia-soviet-union-history-rally-cincinnati-ohio-watch-video-9036691

We are now the largest energy producer in the world, bigger than Soviet Union, formerly...

Remember the Soviet Union when it was all together, the Soviet Union, when it was all together before they decided, we got to call ourselves Russia.

That was always their dream, to be the biggest in the world. Then it became Russia, and you know what they've done a good job with energy, and so has Saudi Arabia done a good job with energy, but we're now bigger than Russia.

[NightWatcher]

1. I've been screaming for years that Putin is trying to get the Soviet Union back together

Dumbass is getting his idiots used to hearing the words "soviet" and "union" together without freaking out (as everyone should be doing right now).

[Wounded Bear]

2. Actually, I think he's trying to reconstitute the old Russian Empire...

not the USSR.

[Aristus]

5. There are plenty of Russians nowadays who want to see the Tsar restored to the throne.

The Romanovs have been elevated, by many Orthodox fanatics, to the level of sainthood in the Orthodox Church, with icons and everything.

I'm guessing none of them are related to the thousands of people the Tsars murdered in the last few decades of their existence.

[Everyman Jackal]

8. All of the Russian teachers I talked to back at the Defense Language Institute

wanted a return of the Tsar, not democracy. I guess they would have all moved back to Russia if it had a Tsar.

[Wounded Bear]

10. There are two sides to the authoritarian phenomenon...

There are the leaders, who want to be the one in charge, and there are the followers, who want to be told what to do, and are actively afraid of being one of Bush's euphemistic deciders.

[Botany]

3. Rus(sia) goes back to 860 AD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_history

[uponit7771]

14. +1, USSR was Putins baby and he feels the West choked it to death in front of him

[FM123]

4. What WE? WE call ourselves America, not Russia!

Remember the Soviet Union when it was all together, the Soviet Union, when it was all together before they decided, we got to call ourselves Russia.

[Botany]

6. The man either never knew any history and or he is undergoing dementia

Good God in Butter when does this shit show stop?

[Wounded Bear]

7. The two conditions are not mutually exclusive...

Trump is the master of "When you don't know, just make shit up."

[Botany]

9. The man is a master of history

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/asked-about-anniversary-warsaw-uprising-trump-talks-about-trump

The anniversary of the Warsaw uprising is all about the Poles liking Trump.

[SlogginThroughIt]

11. WE????? WTF?!

[VOX]

12. Watch the clip again. Stable Genius said "Soviet Union" when he meant Russia. Then...

he backtracks on that faux pas with the pitiful mansplaining of history.

His awkward and infantile backtracking makes the slip even worse.

Of course, his cult still loves this moron, because he’s THEIR moron.

[unitedwethrive]

13. If it didn't happen during the rapists-in-chief's lifetime,

then apparently it didn’t happen.