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Trump said in a press conference on Oct 10 (or so), referring to the Kurds:

as someone wrote in this very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the second world war, they didn't help us with Normandy [...]

What's the article he is referring to? Of course, we need an educated guess, but if his time reference is correct, there can't be that many candidates...

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    Perhaps more importantly, the Kurds did fight with the allies in WW2. For example see this Washington Post article.
    – matt_black
    Commented Oct 11, 2019 at 16:10

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Apparently the press was curious too... After a hint that it was a Townhall article, it didn't take long to locate it. It's penned by Kurt Schlichter, and it does say pretty much what Trump said:

I generally like the Kurds. I generally dislike the Turks. But they’ve been killing each other for a long time and no one has yet offered a sufficient reason why America should stick its troops in the crossfire between them. [...]

The Kurds helped destroy ISIS, true. It’s also true that the Kurds would have fought ISIS anyway, since the psycho caliphate was right next door. Let’s be honest – the Kurds didn’t show up for us at Normandy or Inchon or Khe Sanh or Kandahar.

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