Trump said he 'didn't know people died from the flu,' but the virus took the life of his grandfather
Donald Trump said he "didn't know people died from the flu" during a visit to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters on Friday.
Friedrich Trump, the president's grandfather, became one of the first people to die during the first wave of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 while living in Queens, New York. President Donald Trump made the claim when speaking about the flu that he had no clue people could die from the virus — despite it taking the life of his grandfather.
Mr Trump continued: "I never heard those numbers. I would've been shocked. I would've said, 'Does anybody die from the flu? I didn't know people died from the flu.' ... And again, you had a couple of years where it was over a 100,000 people died from the flu."
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