In a week when you thought Donald Trump had reached maximum offensiveness, he proved there’s always a little more disgusting to be had—even if it takes going to white nationalist fantastyland to find it.

x Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017

What is Trump talking about? He’s going back to a story he told during the campaign.

After the war, Pershing served as governor of the heavily Muslim Moro Province between 1909 and 1913. This period was notable for its continuing insurgencies. "They were having terrorism problems, just like we do," Trump said, according to an account in the Washington Post. "And he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs’ blood — you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem. Okay? Twenty-five years, there wasn’t a problem."

Twenty-five years. Thirty-five years. It doesn’t really matter because the whole damn story is a lie. It never happened. Similar stories have been told about other military leaders, and though details vary, the thing they all seem to have in common is that they’re not true. But Trump’s hate for people not like him? That’s all too real.