Oh, Know!!!!!!
At his press conference yesterday, Trump said a lot of gobbledy-gook, mind-numbingly idiotic things. But to me, one statement above all stood out, and not just stood out, which doesn't do it justice, but was so far above the rest it can't be bunched together with the other imbecilities and has to be put in its own unique category. Just…"Oh, my god, he actually said that???!!" territory. It was a horrific press conference, and then all of a sudden there was Trump being asked --
REPORTER: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?
TRUMP: You could say both.
Both?? Yes, you could say both. But you'd look like a clueless fool if you did say both. Which is why few people who don't have dementia wouldn't say both.
And here's the thing - that wasn't the mind-numbingly idiotic thing Trump said. Because at the same press conference yesterday, Trump also was asked -
REPORTER: You promised the Iranian people you would help them.
TRUMP: Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave, but they've been very menacing,
Trump promised to help the Iranian people. They were fighting in the streets. Over 30,000 of them got murdered by their government - the government that Trump just went to war against. Their country is getting bombarded by the United States - and Trump is asking the people he promised to help…to behave??! Behave against what? Behave to who??? The people who Trump to help aren't "misbehaving" against the United States. They've probably running to find protection and save their lives.
And here's the thing - that wasn't the mind-numbingly idiotic thing Trump said either! Because at the same press conference yesterday, the truly Trump mind-numbingly, utterly, soul-crushingly idiotic thing Trump said came after he was asked about an Iranian school being tragically destroyed by a Tomahawk missile--
REPORTER: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school…but you're the only person in your government saying this…Why are you the only person saying this?
TRUMP: Because I just don't know enough about it.
Yes. Really. Trump, the president of the United States, chief executive, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. military forces he is leading in a war was just asked why he's the only person in his administration to say something about a disastrous tragedy in that war…and his response was, "Because I don't know enough about it"!!!
This is one of those things where no one should take my word for it. So, here's the video. In fact, it's important to see the full video because his whole answer was even worse.
And yes, "even worse" is possible.
"Because I don't know enough about it." Y'know, when most people don't know enough about something…they usually don't say anything! (Quick disclaimer: unless they're on a sports talk show.)
And it's one thing to not know enough about something and keep yammering, as if you want to be seen as an expert - about something you know you don't know enough about. But it's taking your stupidity to another level to actually admit it out loud, as if admitting is a defense of you having said something so idiotic in the first place.
And…and going even further, and making this incredibly bizarre response by Trump even worse -- and, yes, as I said, amazingly with Trump that is always possible -- is that in trying to defend his explanation (of something that he says he doesn't know enough about), Trump attempted to show his expertise by remembering something he likely heard somewhere in some other context and says, "Tomahawks are used by others, as you know." Adding, "They buy them from us." The problem with this is -- Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles!!!
Yes, Tomahawks are used by others, as we know. But what commander-in-chief Trump doesn't seem to know (as he tries to sound smart) is that Iran is not one of those others. And yes, also, other countries do buy Tomahawk missiles from us. But no, Iran is not one of those countries.
Or to put it another way: No, we did not sell Tomahawk missiles to Iran!
As you know.
Iran is our enemy. It's part of the Axis of Evil. Iran is the country Trump tore up our nuclear treaty with. Iran is the country Trump literally bombed just eight months ago. They're who Trump said we supposedly "obliterated" their nuclear arsenal. (Though now says, no, not so much.) We did not sell Tomahawk missiles to Iran. Nor did any other country.
Especially Israel. Since Iran is an even bigger enemy to Israel than to us. For that matter, even if Trump ever wanted to throw Israel under the bus and blame them for an errant Tomahawk from Israel being who accidentally bombed the school, here's the thing -- Israel doesn't have Tomahawks either! In fact, the only country using Tomahawk missiles in Iran is...the United States.
Well…at least Trump was right about one thing. He just doesn't know enough about it.
And that's the main thing. As worse as Trump made it with his Tomahawk gumfummery, that was only an addendum. That was "only" worse because it was screwing up his defense of the U.S. military accidentally, tragically blowing up a school with 150 children. (Something really awful to be "only" worse about.)
The core problem, the statement that should have lead every news show, that should have gotten every MAGOP in Congress running for the door to disclaim any loyalty to him, that Democrats should have leaped on - that everyone should leap on, out of national concern of the U.S. president, the commander-in-chief, overseeing an actual war, making a point-blank, blunt statement of supposed fact - and then defending that he's the only one saying it by responding, "I just don't know enough about it."
But it not only wasn't the lead story (and honestly, I get that, even if I don't agree), it wasn't even covered on the news at all. It was just a shrug and, well, that's just normal, that's just Trump being Trump. Whatever. But -- no, that's not normal. Imagine if President Biden had said that, as Commander-in-Chief during a war! Making a blunt, unequivocal statement about something that was demonstrably wrong and then defending being so completely wrong by responding, "I don't know enough about it."
On the positive side, it's perhaps the first honest thing Trump has said since he first took office.
Your reminder that Trump has dementia, which is degenerative.
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