president Trump's claim that he's
shocked to hear thousands of people die
from the flu each year in America he's
being met with a bit of disbelief
I never heard those numbers I would I
would have been shocked I would have
said it does anybody die from the flu I
didn't know people died from the flu why
because his grandfather Frederick Trump
dropped dead from the flu
Frederick Trump was born in a small town
in Germany kallstadt and immigrated to
America in 1905 and settled in Queens
New York but during the great 1918
influenza pandemic Frederick Trump was
stricken in fact he became one of the
first American casualties of the
epidemic that would go on to claim the
lives of 50 million worldwide he was
walking down the street in May of 1918
and suddenly he said to his son I don't
feel well they went home and as
president Trump's father later related
it to me he got in bed and he died
biographer Gwenda Blair wrote the
Trump's three generations that built an
empire I was hearing the amount of
people to die
shocked to hear the author says she's
pretty sure the president would know the
flu kills people just based on family
history President Trump is known as a
bit of a germaphobe do you think that
has to do with his grandfather dying of
the flu I remember once when I
interviewed him and he shook my hand and
he said you're privileged because I
shook your hand I am absolutely sure
that one inch away from the camera there
was somebody with a bottle of Purell he
is very very very germaphobic
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