Trump, in Ohio: "A couple hundred years ago, there was no one here!" (Ohio became a state in 1803)

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

"A couple hundred years ago, there was no one here!" -- Ohio became a state in 1803

Link to tweet

[C_U_L8R]

1. Oh yeah?

[Vinca]

2. And the dopes in the audience nod their heads in agreement.

[klook]

3. There were also people there well before 1803

...just not the sort that Trump would consider people.

Fun fact: Ohio is an Iroquoian name —
http://www.native-languages.org/ohio.htm

[CaptYossarian]

7. The KKK hadn't been formed yet. It's all in Trumpian context.

[lunasun]

11. ++ Exactly

[Harker]

4. I'm pretty sure the area was populated well before statehood.

Not surprising he'd say "nobody".

[Norbert]

6. The Shawnee, Eire and Kickapoo tribes were here well before Columbus arrived

Not that it matter to the idiot.

[htuttle]

8. Some of my ancestors moved to Ohio from Pennsylvania a few years before 1803

So we were there, at least. Though I suppose Trump considers us 'nobodies', lol.

[Harker]

15. If they didn't have MAGA hats, they don't count

as people.

[Botany]

5. Putting aside the insult to the Native Americans I would like to point out O.U. was founded 1804

This building was finished in 1819

BTW "Clean Water?" Trump and facts not so much .... every summer the western end of Lake Erie becomes sick
with an algal bloom from fertilizer run off.

[Maeve]

9. My father's family was here in Ohio a couple of hundred years ago

And there were others, both settlers and natives, here before them.

Idjit.

[atreides1]

10. Ah yes

We know he's an idiot...that's a given! The problem is those cult members that keep supporting him!

[marble falls]

12. By the 1800 there were were large settlements consisting of Revolutionary War vets, and land ...

set aside for citizens of Connecticut who had been burnt off their property by the British along Lake Erie (the Western Reserve and the Fire lands). There were settlements all along the Ohio river.

There were tribes aboriginal Americans.

Nobody? Lots of people.

Cleveland was founded in 1792, and Marrietta was founded in 1788, Toledo in 1817.

http://genealogytrails.com/ohio/firstwhitesettlers.htm

[DFW]

13. More Republicanese

Maybe 400 years ago there were no Europeans in Ohio, but only if the Iroquois aren't people, which might be a new Republican talking point, can one say no one was in Ohio "a couple hundred years ago."

[3catwoman3]

14. Is there anyone more...

...across-the-board ignorant than Donald Trump?

I remember a quote from the Game Change book about the 2008 campaign and election, from one of the people trying to work with Sarah Palin, saying, "She doesn't know anything." I was never sure which word to emphasize in the sentence - "She doesn't KNOW anything," or "She doesn't know ANYTHING."

Either way you say it, neither does Trump.

[Maeve]

16. Mark Twain had a line for this--

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”

He "knows" a lot of things that just ain't so!

[LakeArenal]

17. Come on Citizens of Ohio. Vote the idiot out.

Don’t make it close. He marginalizes all of you. Vote Democratic.

[jcgoldie]

18. "Most people don't know this but..."

At that time there were just some empty airports in Cleveland and Cincinnati...

[Maru Kitteh]

19. Who cares when it "became a state." Has exactly nothing to do with

when people lived there.

I'm sorry, to me I see one ignorant statement followed by another that doubles down on that error and adds some insult to the mix.