• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Could someone explain the meme to non US netizens? Wikipedia tells me there was a battle alright. Or is it just his generally poor language?

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      3 months ago

      The Battle of Gettysburg was a key battle during the US Civil war, and occurred just before the July 4th holiday, 1863.

      The North won, and it was largely considered to be the turning point of the war.

      What I think this meme is pointing and laughing at is that President Lincoln gave one of the most important speeches of his, or, frankly any Presidents career, four months later.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

      Whereas Trump babbles like a moron with little comprenshion of what he’s saying or trying to say.

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      3 months ago

      It sounds like he wanted to say something profound about the battle of Gettysburg, but realized that he didn’t know shit about it, so he just started blathering.