He thinks it involved Washington or Lincoln
I mean, this is the guy who said that the Americans warred with the Brits over “airports” during the Revolutionary War.
I knew that was going to be brought up. It has been before. At the time I said that I didn’t think even Trump was that stupid. I was cleary wrong.
The instrument has yet to be invented that can measure the stupidity of this man.
Pearl Harbor? Isn’t that where the Germans bombed us. But we decided it wasn’t over.
(Pretty bad when Bluto is smarter than our Commander-in-Chief. At least Bluto knew it was one of the enemies from WWII that bombed us.)
The Washington Post article linked to by OP’s link gives more disturbing details, e.g.
This is the least surprising thing I’ve heard today.
I have my doubts just based on the story:
Huh?
That is not “isn’t necessarily an inaccurate description.” That is an absolutely perfect description. Pearl Harbor was a battle, and was of historic significance. What the hell is O’Donnell talking about?
Using “Washington [D.C.]” as a synecdoche for the U.S. government is perfectly acceptable.
I must, reluctantly, give the Grand Nagus a point for this.
I believe what happened there was that his teleprompter read that the Continentals “manned the ramparts”, but Loser Donald had no idea what a “rampart” was or how to use “manned” as a verb, so he stumbled over his own tongue until he found an adjacent phrase that made sense to his addled brain.
why did he ask “What’s this about?” If he knew the whole story?
Donald Trump didn’t know something. I, for one, am shocked. Shocked I tells ya!
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Oh, wait, no the opposite of that. Donald Trump is unbelievably ignorant. He’s even ignorant on subjects that you would think that as a successful (oh god, make it stop) businessman he wouldn’t be so ignorant. Trump is proof that if you could only get (steal) $400 million, you too, could be rich. And probably richer than Trump since his track record in business is dismal. Trump’s only useful (it hurts, please no more) skill is somehow convincing people that he’s a successful businessman. He created this myth around himself, that kind of stuck for some reason.
O’er the airports we watched
Were so gallantly streaming.
And the rocket’s red glare,
The bombs bursting in air…
Yeah… it makes sense that you’d have rockets and bombs at an airport. “Ramparts” doesn’t make any sense, right?
So he thought that they had “rammed the manparts”?
Did you read my #5? It has quotes from the WP article based on A Very Stable Genius, a new book by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. Not as good as quoting from the book, but better than discussing the “meat” as first filtered by Yahoo, then by OP.
The quote your responding to was a 4th-hand impression of what seems like an interesting book. Let’s discuss the interesting book, please, not the result of a game of “Gossip.”
Maybe he didn’t ask that?
When the term “reportedly said,” is used (as was used in the article) I take it with a grain of salt.
Can you imagine the unholy shitstorm that would erupt if a staffer told Trump about the Zimmerman telegram, wherein back in January of '17, Germany proposed a military alliance with Mexico to fight the United States?
Absent context, we don’t know. Since you’re drawing that quote from a story that implies Pearl Harbor wasn’t exactly a historic battle, consider the source.
Donald Trump is an ignoramus, but this is a dreadful bit of reporting.
The Florida guy who shot that black kid? Am I giving him a medal?
That’s not the worst thing in the book, by far. The “Trump is an Ignorant Idiot” anecdotes are amusing but I prefer to save my derision for the really scary stuff.
QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE
“In Spring 2017, Trump also clashed with Tillerson when he told him he wanted his help getting rid of the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act, a 1977 law that prevents US firms and individuals from bribing foreign officials for business deals.
“It’s just so unfair that US companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas” Trump says, according to the book. “We’re going to change that”.
So much for his corruption fighting narrative
I’ve got to admit that I find three words in the above story hard to believe, and that is the phrase “clashed with Tillerson”. I’m surprised he wasn’t on board.
I find the wording of this very questionable. I don’t doubt that Trump might want American companies to be able to bribe or illicit foreign officials, but I highly doubt he’d actually ***say ***things that bluntly. This whole sentence smacks of poorly-written projection by the book author.
That would be like a tell-all book about Bill Clinton, “quoting” Clinton, “It’s so unfair that I can’t have an extramarital blowjob with my 25-year old intern in the Oval Office and then commit perjury as well!”