It‘s sad that the face America now presents to the world is so pitiful. He’s a legend in his own mind – and not ours. He’s slipping in public. Should we laugh or scream? Either way, it’s just not a good thing that these are happening more and more frequently.
After his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15 and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House Oval Office three days later, U.S. President Donald Trump talked foreign policy when he called into Fox News’ morning show, “Fox & Friends,” early Tuesday morning, August 19. And he appeared to forget the name of an ocean. Trump told the hosts, “You know we have an ocean that’s separating us, right? A thing called…. an ocean. A big, beautiful ocean. And, uh, they don’t, they’re right there. So it’s a different kind of a thing for them.”
Should we be happy he didn’t say across the Gulf of “America”? I feel like he’s forgotten about that stupidity already. Let it die a quiet death. Please. Along with MTG. And Lauren Ho-bert. And Nancy Mace. Wait. Did I say that out loud? Oooooo bad me. Ha. Back to our story.
Trump, the Daily Beast’s Jack Silvers notes, “appeared to be referring to the Pacific Ocean, the largest body of water on Earth.” Silvers explains, “The coast of Alaska, where Trump and Putin met last Friday, is separated by 55 miles of ocean from the eastern coast of Russia…. Famously, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said that ‘you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska’ in 2008, providing fodder for a viral ‘SNL’ spoof starring Tina Fey.”
Sarah Palin wasn’t too bright, either. But I digress. How can you forget the name of a body of water that LARGE? He should feel right at home with it. I didn’t think he paid his way through *all* school. Maybe his bone spurs took all of the tests for him. Something. I guess?
Trump’s comments are generating some discussion on X, formerly Twitter. //// The Daily Beast tweeted, “Trump appeared to have another senior moment as he rambled to Fox News about ‘a thing called… an ocean’ while discussing his meeting with Zelensky.” //// X user Terp Sitone posted, “Clearly a masterclass in geography.” //// Another X user, Annie van Leur, wrote, “TRUMP CAN’T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE OCEAN.” //// Van Leur, in a separate tweet, commented, “If not for the Republicans in Congress, he’d be in an assisted living community somewhere. Donald Trump is a ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ president.”
Y’know, the tweets are the best part of the story. The Pacific Ocean. Trump might be embarrassed if he knew how to be embarrassed. But he is the Great and Wonderful Trump, so he doesn’t. It’s the rest of the country that’s embarrassed. Moron.
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I aways get the Atlantic and Pacific mixed up. Tthey’re both oceans.
And they’re the same color (sort of).
And both wet.
““If not for the Republicans in Congress, he’d be in ….assisted living ………somewhere……””
Sure, I’ve corrupted the quote but to make the point Republicans in Congress are assisting him to live in the White House!
He’s the perfect president for a nation of amoral consumers that never learned history, or, apparently anything.
Any people who believe they can be both ignorant and free…believe in something that never was, and never will be. Thomas Jefferson
Also, it’s very wet, in terms of water.
Sometimes his ramblings remind me of the beauty pageant contestant rambling on about things like “The eye-rack and such like”
A good rule to follow is, if your mind should happen to go blank, don’t forget to turn off the sound.