In a yet another controversy, US President Donald Trump made factual blunder on Twitter after he referenced an inaccurate anecdote about defeating ''Muslim enemies''.
In a yet another controversy, US President Donald Trump made factual blunder on Twitter after he referenced an inaccurate anecdote about defeating ''Muslim enemies''.
At least 13 people were killed and several injured after a van ploughed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday. Islamic State (IS) later claimed responsibility for the attack.
President Trump was quick to respond to the attack. "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught," Trump wrote on Twitter. "There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"
The president's tweet was about the World War I legend Army General John J Pershing. This is not the first time he had mentioned General Pershing. Earlier, during his campaign rally in Charleston in South Carolina on February 2016 he addressed a crowd about the 'rought act'of Pershing who used to dip his bullets in pig blood to execute Muslim terrorists. The Quran, the holy text of the Islamic faith, prohibits the consumption of pork and considers it as ''impure''.
"They had a terrorism problem and there's a whole thing with swine and pigs and you know the story they don't like them and General Pershing was a rough guy and he sits on his horse and he's very astute, like a ramrod. And he caught 50 terrorists that did tremendous damage and killed many people and he dipped 50 bullets in pig's blood,"
"And he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people," he added.
"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, OK? Twenty-five years there wasn't a problem!"
It is still not known as to why Trump's earlier claim of 25 years turned into 35 years in his Friday tweet.
A fact-checking organisation that check the claims of politicians stated Trump's story about General Pershing to be "ridiculous and unreal".
Another fact-checking agency called Snopes also rated the story as "false''. However, Snopes in its analysis wrote a 1927 Chicago Daily Tribune story of Pershing that claimed the general used to "sprinkle some prisoners with pig's blood," which was ultimately "more powerful than bullets" as a warning before releasing the prisoners.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
 "Donald Trump")
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}