Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. Out of respect for those brave men who fought for our nation, I have waited until now to express my fury about Trump's comments on @FoxNews regarding D-Day. This was not the speech written by staff, this was when he described what he thought D-Day was all about. Once again...

@FoxNews 2...Trump demonstrated not only did he know nothing, not only has he not even bothered to read about what happened in WWII, but he was - because of his ignorance - willing to sit on national television and not even hesitate in describing what D-Day was....

@FoxNews 3...now, some might think this is nitpicky. It is not. Is a president does not even bother to learn the basic facts of one of the most important moments of American history, one where our soldiers fought so bravely, he is showing utter contempt for everything we stand for...

@FoxNews 4...attached are the words he said, the ones that demonstrated how little he knew about this event...

@FoxNews 5...the deaths on D-Day were almost exclusively attributable to shooting, not explosions. There were mines, and two people - two - including a man named John Onken - were killed by them. But NO ONE calls dying by a mine being "blown up." There were a minimum of 2200 Americans...

@FoxNews 6...who died, were shot. Before the attack, we swept mines, when it began, we bombed German artillery, but they were not prepared for us - part of the intelligence operation pre-assault - and so by far the primary assault was on artillery....

@FoxNews 7...There were no German planes bombing, no missiles, nothing. People were not getting "blown up." They were dying, bleeding into the beach, shot in the guts, heads, and anywhere. There was even hand-to-hand combat in some places. Some died from the paratrooping and being shot...

@FoxNews 8...to portray the Germans as engaging in a bombing response shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what led to D-Day, how it was fought, and why it was so amazing....

@FoxNews 9...Also, these were people "who knew they were going to die." Does the president think everyone on D-Day died? Everyone did not KNOW they were going to die. Certainly, everyone feared they would. But tens of thousands did not. His words would not have been uttered by someone...

@FoxNews 10..who actually knew what happened on D-Day. In one sentence, he makes two demonstrations he does not know the basic history of the day.

And it is disgusting a man like that - one who, even in signing a proclamation in honor of those who fought, had to make it about himself...

@FoxNews 11...by signing the proclamation at the top, while every other world leader signed it at the bottom, to show the words of the proclamation was advanced by them. Trump signed it like it was an autograph book, to make sure his name was featured alone. He is a horrible human being.