Trump, 79, Seems Utterly Perplexed About Where Alaska Is - The president made multiple comments suggesting he doesn’t know Alaska is part of the United States.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-seems-utterly-perplexed-about-where-alaska-is/

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“We’ll see what happens, if it’s bad, if it’s something I don’t see a future in, I’m gone, I’ll leave,” Trump added. “I’ll go back to the United States.”

“It’s going to be a big thing,” Trump said at a White House Press conference on Monday. “We’re going to Russia, it’s going to be a big deal.”

In a third instance, later in the same press conference, Trump said “You know, I’m going to see Putin. I’m going to Russia on Friday.”

This is a fucking humiliation to the United States of America. Even before the meeting giving POO-tihn the optics of hanging around with his old pal Donold.

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My guess is Putin keeps telling him Alaska belongs to Russia and Trump, being the idiot he is, believes him since he believes the last thing he was told.

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Did you catch Putin talking about many Russian- built churches and place names there are there? He’s laying out the historical justification for it as historically Russian.

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I've read that Russians schools teach that America only leased Alaska for 100 years and refused to give it back afterwards

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That's frightening to me. 

Yes I know every country records history to their own liking. But in my mind, I like to think there is some sort of neutral party keeping the real score. Not a fan of fucking with history. Not only is it dangerous, but to change history is to erase and neutralize the true existence of humanity. 

Like if history is remembered and eventually understood despite not actually true, it makes everything meaningless, up to and including the current.