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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00:00But the United States has never joined in with the proper celebration of our own.
00:07And the victory was mostly accomplished because of us.
00:11Whether you like it or not, we came into that war, and we won that war, and we had a lot
00:17of help from a lot of great people, a lot of great allies.
00:22But I think there would be nobody that would say that we were not the dominant force in
00:26that war, and we don't celebrate it.
00:29And I think that's a great disservice to the people that lost their lives and people
00:32that fought so hard in winning World War II, and also a separate victory day for World
00:40War I, and we're going to be doing that, too.
00:43It was American tanks and ships and trucks and airplanes and service members that vanquished
00:49the enemy 80 years ago this week.
00:51Without America, the liberation would never have happened.
00:56And so we have to pay tribute and homage to those people that gave us victory.
01:06And we did something else that people don't talk about.
01:09We rebuilt the world.
01:12All of these countries that were destroyed, we helped them rebuild.
01:16And that's something that, for the most part, others did not do.
01:21So with this proclamation, we are hereby honoring the incredible sacrifice and heroism of millions
01:27of Americans who served in World War II, along with the unprecedented mobilization, home front
01:35that helped deliver this great triumph.
01:39All Americans should take pride in what these incredible patriots have achieved.
01:43So I just want to say happy victory day to all.
01:47So we are celebrating every year now.
01:50I can guarantee for four years.
01:52But I think after that, we're going to have two victory days, World War I and World War II.
01:57This is World War II victory day.
02:00In the future, we're going to have a major celebration of each day.
02:08We're not going to have days off because we don't have enough days in the year.
02:11We have too many celebrations already.
02:14But we're going to have victory day and first World War I, World War II.
02:20And without us, those wars would not have been won.
02:25I think we can say that would not have been won.
02:29And I think it's time that the United States start taking credit for their achievements.
02:35And it's I really believe it's a shame, you know, it's I was watching for the last week
02:41and I noticed France.
02:42I noticed other countries all getting ready for victory day.
02:47And I said, that's sort of strange because David just added something.
02:51He said, we also rebuilt the world.
02:54And I didn't have that.
02:55And I should have that.
02:56That was a big factor.
02:58But I noticed all of the countries Russia having a big day tomorrow.
03:04And by the way, they lost millions of people and they were absolutely a major factor.
03:11But there was no major factor like us.
03:14We won the war and we wanted with the help of others.
03:17But everybody was celebrating.
03:19But the United States of America, I said, you know, I think it's time that we start celebrating
03:24victory and that's what we're doing.
03:29So now for the reason that we're here.
03:34But I asked David, would it be appropriate if I did that?
03:36He said, absolutely.
03:38That's a big thing that we're doing on your swearing and very big thing.
03:43But now for the real reason.