Donald Trump on Monday blamed the Spanish Flu for ending the Second World War — which didn’t start until two decades later — during a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic.The president mixed up his world wars, misstating the year of the Spanish Flu and doubling the estimated death toll from that pandemic while trying to factually compare it to COVID-19.“Nobody’s ever seen anything like this,” Trump said during the briefing. “The closest thing was in 1917 they say, right?
The Great Pandemic — and it certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. It probably ended the Second World War.