During a meeting in the Oval Office with Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, Trump claimed the US went to war with Venezuela and then described the devastating earthquake on June 24th like a toddler.
Most of Trump’s comments throughout were either lies, misquotes or exaggerations, but a couple stood out.
“We went to war with Venezuela, and the war ended in one day,” he said.
Pulling a black-ops kidnapping of the Venezuelan president Maduro was not a war.
Trump then riffed on how great Venezuela is doing until something bad happened.
TRUMP: Venezuela is a very happy place, had a tragic incident with the, you know, with the event that took place a couple of days ago, a couple of weeks ago.
What a terrible thing that was. They had a they had a movement, a shifting of Earth that was unbelievable.
Nobody has ever they’ve never seen anything like it.
A lot of people were killed. So it’s all unrelated.
But, by the way, we were the first ones there to help.
Then, as well, it was an earthquake.
I guess you’d call it was a pretty massive earthquake.
He guesses?
Shifting of the ground? He couldn’t find the right word.
I imagine Susie Wiles had to describe what an earthquake is to Trump. But really, he could not find the right word.
A 7.2-.5 earthquake is massive, but it wasn’t something that “nobody has ever they’ve never seen.”