Once a dummy, always a dummy!
Trump Reportedly Admits To Lying using alternate facts To Canada’s Trudeau About Trade Deficit
Another bad headline corrected.
I commend any foreign leader who can patiently sit there and listen to this idiot without laughing in his face.
I think our friends know that we all have to wait out this nightmare, in the best humor, and all the long-suffering patience we can muster, and rebuild what’s left of the world when this fool is finally shown the door or a jail cell.
Until that blessed day arrives, may the force be with us all!
I read last night this is a known genre of story with him–as he tells it he made some wild claim to someone, was opposed, and then had some always anonymous minion go and check and whattaya know he was right after all because of course he was. I suppose it’s a way of processing the pain and rage of being contradicted to his face by someone in touch with reality.
I love Trudeau’s expression in the image. It’s like he’s wondering to what extent his responsibilities as a head of state require him to get into a futile argument with the crazy uncle he only sees at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
@mattinpa I read Trudeau’s expression as: Hmmmm. He really does have short fingers.
It’s interesting to note that they broke it out to a trade deficit in timber and energy. I have no idea if the energy and timber levels change the overall balance of trade in what Trump would consider a negative way, but it seems to me that if you look at one specific area, you could claim a deficit with any country.
I’m not sure, but I’m pretty sure we have a trade deficit with Russia in vodka. I hope he puts a tariff on it. It’s just not fair to the American vodka industry.
Friends don’t lie to friends. Especially when it’s so easy to find out the truth.
You can’t trust anything Trump says…aside from the fact that he doesn’t understand trade.
“Trump admitted that he told __________ that _________ has a _________________ with the U.S., even though he had no idea whether that was actually accurate.”
Fill in the blanks and create your own “Line of Bullshit from the President!” Coming soon from Hasbro.
Has anybody else noticed that Trump seems to be getting worse when speaking extemporaneously? He used to be able to get one or two sentences out between random tangents or repetitions. Lately he’s been wandering off topic* several times within a sentence**.
*When it’s possible to parse what topic he’s talking about.
**A sentence here being defined as the space between breaths.
Hear! Hear!
Yes, I suppose so …
Trump has no concept of friends because he has never really had any.
Issue straight jackets to the Secret Service.
Words to live by.
No, but it’s good news. Thanks.
How can anyone make sense enough of what the hell Trump is saying in that quote to even tell he’s lying? I read it 3 times and I’m like… huh?
That was a headline for few hours, but more important stuff pushed it down now (because we already knew that)
Donald Trump admits making up ‘facts’ in trade meeting with Justin Trudeau
US president told donors ‘I had no idea’ when he complained to Canada’s prime minister over (non-existent) trade deficit
Donald Trump admits making up 'facts' in trade meeting with Justin Trudeau | Donald Trump | The Guardian
I wonder what people in the military - top to bottom - truly think about having a lunatic as commander in chief.
Yes I can confirm that. I remember I was listening to part of Trump’s speech at one of his recent rallies (I don’t know when or why I was wasting my time that way) and Trump told the same story. He described how he had told some representative of another country he was wrong about some claim the foreigner was certain about; that guy and everyone else then insisted that Trump was wrong. But then Trump’s people checked on it and, lo and behold, Trump was right! In fact, when I started reading this story in the WaPo last night I actually had to check the date to make sure I hadn’t accidentally clicked on an old story. I guess this is Ground Hog Day, Trump-style.
It is nearly unintelligible when written out, I agree, but once you remember whom you’re dealing with:
“… So, he’s proud. I said, ‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. … I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ You know why? Because we’re so stupid. … And I thought they were smart. I said, ‘You’re wrong, Justin.’ He said, ‘Nope, we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Well, in that case, I feel differently,’ I said, ‘but I don’t believe it.’
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.