It was an allusion to a fictional yarn the president told on the campaign trail. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!”
After this week’s attack in Barcelona, Trump tweeted: “Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. Trump’s claim, first aired at a Februcampaign rally in South Carolina, cited Pershing as “a rough guy”-a personality trait that, it seems, the president very much admires. Ironically, Black Jack, whose fame has faded in the seven decades since his death, is still celebrated among military scholars, but not for what he did-but for what he didn’t: and he most certainly didn’t take 50 bullets, dip them in pigs blood and execute 49 Muslims in retaliation for Islamic terrorism, as Donald Trump has repeatedly told us.
In 1919, after Pershing returned from Europe to public acclaim, the Congress named him general of the Armies-only George Washington still outranks him.
