Randahl FinkMay 2, 2025

Many countries celebrate when their countries were liberated from the Nazis. In Denmark for instance, we celebrate May 5.

But World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945, with Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in the presence of US General Sutherland (picture 1).

However, Trump thinks that because countries in Europe celebrate dates in May, that must be when the entire World War II ended (picture 2).

Show threadWesDym

@randahl It's particularly odd coming from someone in the US, which had a major role in both theatres; for Americans, the war in the Pacific was huge. It was, after all, the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought us into the war.

But T-ball is extremely ignorant, about almost everything. Subjects like history, even recent history, are murky to him. Moreover, he doesn't actually care. He's focused almost entirely on his own interests.

May 2, 2025 at 12:02pmWeb
Show threadBrian GrinterMay 3, 2025
@wesdym @randahl most allied nations were in both theatres
Some were also there from the beginning