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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump boasts about getting 'Bay of Pigs award' - which doesn't exist
Source: The Guardian
Trump boasts about getting 'Bay of Pigs award' which doesn't exist
President targets Latino voters in tight Florida race with Biden
Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Sun 13 Sep 2020 23.45 BST
First published on Sun 13 Sep 2020 22.54 BST
Attacking Joe Biden and seeking to exploit reports that his rival is struggling with Latino voters, Donald Trump boasted on Sunday of receiving the highly honoured Bay of Pigs award from Cuban Americans in the battleground state of Florida.
Perhaps inevitably, and to the glee of the internet, no such award exists.
The Bay of Pigs invasion, in April 1961, saw a CIA-sponsored force of Cuban exiles attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro and his communist regime. The failure of the mission continues to haunt US-Cuban relations, even after Barack Obama sought to bring the nations closer together.
Trump, whose company reportedly broke the Cuba trade embargo in 1998, has sought to reverse Obamas policies.
In his tweet on Sunday, he may have misremembered previous visits to a house in Little Havana, in Miami, which houses a Bay of Pigs museum and library and where survivors of Brigade 2506, the unit which carried out the invasion, gather to talk and remember.
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President targets Latino voters in tight Florida race with Biden
Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Sun 13 Sep 2020 23.45 BST
First published on Sun 13 Sep 2020 22.54 BST
Attacking Joe Biden and seeking to exploit reports that his rival is struggling with Latino voters, Donald Trump boasted on Sunday of receiving the highly honoured Bay of Pigs award from Cuban Americans in the battleground state of Florida.
Perhaps inevitably, and to the glee of the internet, no such award exists.
The Bay of Pigs invasion, in April 1961, saw a CIA-sponsored force of Cuban exiles attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro and his communist regime. The failure of the mission continues to haunt US-Cuban relations, even after Barack Obama sought to bring the nations closer together.
Trump, whose company reportedly broke the Cuba trade embargo in 1998, has sought to reverse Obamas policies.
In his tweet on Sunday, he may have misremembered previous visits to a house in Little Havana, in Miami, which houses a Bay of Pigs museum and library and where survivors of Brigade 2506, the unit which carried out the invasion, gather to talk and remember.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/trump-bay-of-pigs-award-florida-cuba-biden
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Trump boasts about getting 'Bay of Pigs award' - which doesn't exist (Original Post)
Eugene
Sep 2020
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madaboutharry
(40,207 posts)1. Trump is a very sick man.
He needs a psychiatric intervention. Shame to all those who are involved in this cover-up.
Cirque du So-What
(25,927 posts)2. I hereby award rump the coveted Silver Sow award
accompanied by Kanye West playing a little ditty on the swinette (google it if you must).
Retrograde
(10,133 posts)3. Even if it did, the Bay of Pigs was a fiasco for the US
Hmmm, maybe he did get it after all - awarded by Cuba's ally at the time, Russia
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)4. Brings to mind images of a tRump Flotilla
n/t
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)5. Does anyone remember ...
That the Bay of Pigs was an unmitigated disaster?
RainCaster
(10,866 posts)6. 45 certainly doesn't
milestogo
(16,829 posts)7. I think it was the Day of Pigs award
given to his entire administration.
malaise
(268,923 posts)8. He just made it up
It is what he does all the time
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)9. He won it for his handling of the Battle of Bowling Green. NT