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  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuytoFacepalm@lemmy.wtfAncient Rome? Really?
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    5 days ago

    No one can be this stupid, surely?

    the quote has been deliberately misrepresented

    He actually said “The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.”

    which could be inferred to be a reference to the large number of italian americans especially on the east coast and their effect on the US culture and the fact that much of the US political system is inspired by southern european governments. Ancient Rome had a senate too