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Let's talk about Trump renaming holidays_ Veterans Day edition....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

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🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump renaming holidays_ Veterans Day edition....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again. So today, we're going to talk about

0:07.3

Trump renaming holidays and his understanding of history. Trump took to social media to announce

0:14.8

a major shake-up in American holidays, particularly those dealing with the military. Let me just say, I have a lot of questions.

0:24.6

Veterans and history majors, you might want to cover your ears for this. His late night post said

0:31.1

quote, many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other country

0:39.4

by far in producing a victorious result on World War II. I'm hereby renaming May 8th as

0:46.9

Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I. We won both wars. Nobody was close to us in terms of

0:57.2

strength, bravery, or military brilliance. But we never celebrate anything. That's because we don't

1:04.1

have leaders anymore that know how to do so. We are going to start celebrating our victories again.

1:10.8

We're just going to start celebrating our victories again.

1:16.1

We're just going to go through this item by item.

1:19.7

May 8th as Victory Day for World War II.

1:21.1

I get it.

1:23.0

That's when the Germans surrendered.

1:26.0

Our European allies celebrate that day.

1:31.2

But that's because many of them weren't also fighting the Japanese.

1:39.8

That's why we have VE Day, Victory in Europe, on May 8th, and VJ Day, Victory over Japan.

1:41.8

That's September 2nd.

1:47.5

Using the May 8th date as Victory Day for World War II, it seems wrong.

1:54.2

I guess the troops at Okinawa just don't matter, because that was still going on. You know,

2:00.4

there were also those two major world-altering events in two Japanese cities that occurred on August 6th and 9th.

2:02.6

This is a historical and just weird.

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