Historians say no such event ever took place at this site. One local historian, Craig Swain, cited the killing of two soldiers by citizens in 1861 as the only Civil War event that occurred on the island.[3]
That was a prime site for river crossings. So, if people are crossing the river, and you happen to be in a civil war, I would say that people were shot a lot of them. "How would they know that?" Mr. Trump asked when told that local historians had called his plaque a fiction. "Were they there?"
Trump said that "numerous historians" had told him the story of the River of Blood, though he later changed that to say the historians had spoken to "my people". Finally he said, "Write your story the way you want to write it. You don't have to talk to anybody. It doesn't make any difference. But many people were shot. It makes sense
So yeah. Our president lies a lot more than I am comfortable with. And he does it about things that are probably false.
So an incorrect story that was properly retracted is a lot more honest than Trump has proved to be.