Trump continued: “I never heard those numbers. I would’ve been shocked. I would’ve said, ‘Does anybody die from the flu? I didn’t know people died from the flu.’ … And again, you had a couple of years where it was over a 100,000 people died from the flu.”

In fact, Donald Trump’s own grandfather died of a very special flu, not just “any” flu, but one associated with the last great pandemic. I will give you a hint, grandpa Trump died in 19018 – ring any bells?

In 1918, Friedrich Trump was a successful, 49-year-old businessman, husband and father of three living in Queens, according to Gwenda Blair in her 2001 book “The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire.” One day in May, he came home from a stroll feeling sick. He died almost immediately.

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Note the month. May.

Trump’s grandfather died from the Spanish flu in May, or right about when the virus is supposed to vanish, “miraculously,” as the weather gets warmer.

Trump really should have read some family history … I’ll wait until you’re done laughing, he doesn’t care about his family’s past, only that they got the will right … but had he read some of his family’s history, he would have learned that his grandfather died in May from the first wave. A second more deadly wave hit in the fall and killed far more.

All told, the Spanish flu killed 50 million people around the globe, in a world that didn’t have the medical technology we have now, so there’s that. But none of that technology will do anyone any good when having to line up to even get into the ER, with no ventilators or nurses there to help care for someone when they do get in. And it will be in no small part due to this man …

“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”

He has no natural ability to understand how stupid he sounds, or how little he actually knows, like the fact his grandfather died of the flu.

“You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump.”

Annie Leibowitz – Vanity Fair photographer.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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