[adorno]

Trump is “wrong”.

France was already defeated before the U.S. rescued them from becoming a permanent part of Germany.

[DoughtyOne]

While that is true, it’s still worthwhile to remind them where they would have been without the U. S.

Trump may not get it exactly right, but his realization of France’s need to wake up is 100% spot on, and it’s something no other president has had the cajones to blurt out.

France is an ungrateful little child.

[libstripper]

That’s true for WW II, but not WW I.

Having knocked Russia out of WW I, the Germans shifted about 3,000,000 troops to the Western Front and launched a massive offensive in the early spring of 1918. It would have succeeded but for the American expeditionary force that was there to help stop it and participate in the massive Allied counter-offensive that won the war by November of 1918.

[Vigilanteman]

America’s stalwart European ally

Please remind me. When was the last time we were on the same side? 1944?

[katana]

I'd give the President the benefit of the doubt and assume he's referring to the First World War and the role US forces played in stopping the last great German offensive in 1918, thus preventing the French from losing to the Germans twice in the twentieth century, or three times in less than one hundred years (when you include the Franco-Prussian dust up in 1870). Last Sunday's commemoration of the Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice in France and Trump's presence there is context.