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Donald Trump announces two national holidays to celebrate 'victory' of US in world wars
May 7, 2025
President Trump has seemingly taken a swipe at Britain, France and “other countries” for celebrating VE Day, saying they have America to thank for World War Two success.Speaking to reporters in the White House, Trump said America has failed to properly recognise its efforts in both world wars.FULL STORY HERE.
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But the United States has never joined in with the proper celebration of our own
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And the victory was mostly accomplished because of us, whether you like it or not
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We came into that war and we won that war and we had a lot of help from a lot of great people, a lot of great allies
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But I think there would be nobody that would say that we were not the dominant force in that war and we don't celebrate it
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And I think that's a great disservice to the people that lost their lives and people that fought so hard in winning World War Two and also a separate victory day for World War One
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And we're going to be doing that, too. It was American tanks and ships and trucks and airplanes and service members that vanquished the enemy 80 years ago this week without America
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The liberation would never have happened. And so we have to pay tribute and homage to those people that gave us victory
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And we did something else that people don't talk about. We rebuilt the world
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All of these countries that were destroyed, we helped them rebuild. And that's something that, for the most part, others did not do
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So with this proclamation, we are hereby honoring the incredible sacrifice and heroism of millions of Americans who served in World War II, along with the unprecedented mobilization home front that helped deliver this great triumph
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All Americans should take pride in what these incredible patriots have achieved
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So I just want to say happy victory day to all So we are celebrating every year now I can guarantee for four years But I think after that we going to have two victory days World War I and World War II
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This is World War II Victory Day. In the future, we're going to have a major celebration of each day
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We're not going to have days off because we don't have enough days in the year. We have too many celebrations already
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but we're going to have victory day and first world war one world war two and without us those
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wars would not have been won i think we can say that would not have been won and i think it's time
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that the united states start taking credit for their achievements and it's i really believe it's
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shame. You know, it's I was watching for the last week and I noticed France. I noticed other
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countries all getting ready for victory day. And I said, that's sort of strange because David just
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added something. He said, we also rebuilt the world. And I didn't have that. And I should have
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that. That was a big factor. But I noticed all of the countries, Russia having a big day tomorrow
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And by the way, they lost millions of people and they were absolutely a major factor
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But there was no major factor like us. We won the war and we won it with the help of others
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But everybody was celebrating. But the United States of America. And I said, you know
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I think it's time that we start celebrating victory. And that's what we're doing
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And so now for the reason that we're here, but I asked David, would it be appropriate if I did that
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He said, absolutely. That's a big thing that we're doing on your swearing and very big thing
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But now for the real reason
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