Interesting story but it is actually a tired, old urban legend and, except for the fact that Pershing was in the Philippines as Military Governor of the Moro Province from 1909 through 1913, it's completely false! And no one from the Hannity Show or FNC called Trump on it!
Moreover, I doubt that Mr. Trump knows the details, but the conflict he was referring to was the Moro Rebellion of 1899-1913. And, Pershing did, indeed, have a good deal to do with bringing it to a successful conclusion but, according to my research, it probably had a lot more to do with the series of well thought out reforms for governing the Moros that he implemented than it did with dipping bullets in pig blood. These reforms included: disarming the Moro tribesmen, streamlining the legal system to be simpler and more in line with Moro customs, setting aside government land for building Muslim houses of worship, and increasing the Moro export economy by 163%. But I don't believe that anyone in the Trump camp is particularly interested in finding out the facts of the matter before their candidate hits the "Push to talk switch".
"The Donald" is bad enough when he is giving unresearched prepared remarks,but when he is left to "wing it"he can really show his tail surfaces. Such an occasion happened on "The O'Reilly Factor" immediately following the Trump rally coverage. This was when "Mr. O", in a previously recorded interview, asked Mr. Trump to expand on his recent foreign policy speech. The first question centered around the point that, in his speech, Mr. Trump did not mention Afghanistan or the conflict there, and Mr. O'Reilly wanted to know his thoughts on how we should go forward in that arena. For his part, Mr. Trump started with his usual "That's really a mess over there, etc." but then went on to say that in his view we probably will have to stay in Afghanistan for while because "...they're so close to Pakistan and Pakistan has nukes". He then opined that "....we probably should have gone in there first." NOW, instead of shouting WE DID GO INTO AFGHANISTAN FIRST,YOU DUMMY! at the top of his voice and getting irate as he does with other guests, Bill O'Reilly, self described historian, teacher, repository of all human knowledge and political wunderkind just smiled and nodded and sat there MUTE!!
If anyone else had made such a glaringly stupid error on his show, O'Reilly would have been all over him like a cheap suit, but he is in such a "bromance" with Trump that that is an impossibility. As they say---he's in the tank!
So, my question is when will the newsies of all stripes, the political pundits, the politicians and, indeed, the voting public STOP LETTING TRUMP GET AWAY WITH ALL OF HIS BULL____?