2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumU.S. Officials Literally Laughing at Donald Trump’s ‘Top Secret’ Iran Video Claim
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/04/u-s-officials-literally-laughing-at-donald-trump-s-top-secret-iran-video-claim.htmlIt didnt happen, one U.S. official said. That was not part of any briefing.
Well, it turns out he saw it on TV. Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks admitted to the Washington Post that footage Trump was referring to was not, in fact, top secret. It was b-roll from a Fox News segment.
That wasnt exactly a reassuring answer for members of the U.S. national security community who are already nervous that Trump could say or tweet classified information. Rather it confirmed their already existing fears that sensitive information could be mistreatedand now made up all together.
vollehosen
(130 posts)Trump can't tell Swiss apart from Iranians.
The camera operator must be pretty pleased with himself though.
liberal N proud
(60,359 posts)Siwsan
(26,369 posts)I found this in a Psychology Today article:
Other observers and commentators have noted how often Reagan confused films he'd made with political reality, including telling witnesses about concentration camps he'd helped to liberate in World War II, when the humbler truth was rather that he had made a movie or two about the topic.
(https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201101/when-did-reagans-first-signs-alzheimers-appear)
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Native
(5,946 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Haven't posted this great pic since yesterday.
Trump's making the Repub Party look like fools and that has got to be cracking up the Dems.
Needs no explaining.
I'm just watching the media standing on their heads to spin the whole Trump spectacle as anything but a big joke on the Republicans.
Haa!
Native
(5,946 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Seriously, Trump turned the Republican Party into a reality show. Like scrambling morning eggs.
Mostly its just sport for TV.
malaise
(269,549 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)tanyev
(42,727 posts)I also wonder if he's capable of paying attention to anything that's not about himself.
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