Trump Announces Victory Day For WWII But Gets The Date Wrong | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump introduced that the United States will be a part of a number of nations in celebrating Victory Day on May 8, seemingly unaware that World War II solely resulted in Europe throughout that month in 1945 — as America continued combating Japan till August.

“Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result in World War II,” Trump wrote Thursday night time in a prolonged submit on his Truth Social platform.

“I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I,” he continued.

Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces on May 8, 1945, a bit over every week after Adolf Hitler died by suicide inside his Berlin bunker. Russian forces had captured the German capital on May 2 after their former Soviet Union misplaced an estimated 24 million individuals to the battle.

Victory Day is well known yearly on May 8 by a number of former members of the Allied Powers, comparable to France, Poland and the United Kingdom (which calls it VE Day). Other nations, together with Belarus and Russia, nevertheless, commemorate the top of hostilities from the Axis Powers on May 9.

Trump, who’s reportedly keen to carry a 4-mile navy parade on his birthday in June, argued Thursday in his submit that the U.S. “never” publicly marks its wartime victories — and appeared in charge present or former leaders for this supposed lack of patriotism.

He wrote: “We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything. That’s because we don’t have leaders anymore that know how to do so! We are going to start celebrating our victories again!”

Frustrated social media customers have since identified that Nov. 11 would apparently not honor all U.S. veterans below this newly introduced plan, nevertheless, as has been the case for 70 years now, and solely be devoted to those that served throughout World War I.

Former President Woodrow Wilson declared Nov. 11 Armistice Day in 1919 to have fun the top of WWI after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The date was formally changed by Veterans Day in 1954 below former President Dwight Eisenhower.

Trump himself has by no means served and reportedly prevented the Vietnam War draft with a prognosis of bone spurs in his foot. The daughter of the physician who offered the prognosis later mentioned he had made that willpower as a favor to his landlord — Trump’s father, Fred.

The Victory Day announcement has sparked outrage and confusion on X, previously Twitter.

“We won World War II on August 15, 1945 when the Japanese surrendered. Trump is a complete moron,” wrote former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, with one other person asking: “Why is Trump … erasing all post WWII veterans and their accomplishments.”