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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Oct 20, 2021, 01:09 PM Oct 2021

TFG Gets Taken To School After Botching Basic U.S. History In Latest Rant

Donald Trump once again flunked history, this time getting a basic fact wrong about Thomas Jefferson.

New York City announced it was moving a statue of the Founding Father and nation’s third president out of its City Council Chamber due to his history as a slaveholder.

It’s not yet clear where the statue will go, but Trump predictably threw a fit over Jefferson ... even if he’s a little hazy on what, exactly, Jefferson did.

Trump called him “a principal writer of the Constitution of the United States.”

Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, but did not contribute to the writing of the Constitution, nor did he attend the Constitutional Convention as he was in France.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-gets-taken-school-botching-025448647.html

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TFG Gets Taken To School After Botching Basic U.S. History In Latest Rant (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
Good thing he's not still president. They would change all the history books to match his ignorance Walleye Oct 2021 #1
It's alternate history, equally valid Retired Engineer Bob Oct 2021 #2
TFG would breakout his black sharpie and correct all history texts. kairos12 Oct 2021 #3
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