President Donald Trump announced Monday night that the ‘1917 ‘flu pandemic ended World War II, misrepresenting both the year the pandemic occurred and the year World War II ended. ‘The closest is in 1917,’ they say, the great pandemic. “It was really a terrible thing where they lost 50 to 100 million people everywhere,” Trump said. “Probably World War II ended, all soldiers were sick.” World War II actually ended in 1945, while the flu pandemic swept the world between 1918 and 1920, infecting hundreds of millions of people. The president’s remark came as he praised his administration’s efforts in controlling the coronavirus and ended travel. Before his remarks on World War II, Trump claimed that if the US had not closed its borders to foreign travelers, “we would have killed one and a half or two million people already”, claiming that we have a firm understanding of how the new features of coronavirus.
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