Donald Trump’s press convention to announce a brand new fighter jet confirmed but once more that the president has his head within the clouds.
Joined by woefully underqualified Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth for the Oval Workplace sideshow on Friday, Trump touted a brand new contract with Boeing to construct the subsequent era F-47 fighter jet.
“We can’t tell you the price,” Trump mentioned as he babbled about “some of the technology” and “the size of the plane.” It was simply one other occasion of the administration’s lack of transparency amid its questionable authorities financial savings and effectivity push.
However then issues went from shady to surreal when Trump took questions from reporters.
When requested about reviews that he was considering withdrawing from NATO whereas concurrently demanding extra money from allied European nations, Trump bragged about having personally “saved” the almost 76-year-old alliance.
“NATO was gone until I came along,” Trump mentioned.
The president was then requested whether or not making Canada the 51st state would profit conservatives electorally. Trump responded like a toddler encountering the idea of borders on maps for the very first time.
“You have that artificial line that goes that straight out of it that looks like it was drawn by a ruler,” Trump mentioned. “I don’t mean a ruler like a king. I mean like a ruler like a ruler. It’s just an artificial line that was drawn in the sand or in the ice.”
That is the person directing our overseas coverage.
On the suspected harmless folks swept up in his administration’s unlawful and unconstitutional deportation of migrants to a Salvadoran jail, Trump confirmed his trademark cowardice.
“Well, I was told that they went through a very strong vetting process and that will also be continuing in El Salvador,” Trump mentioned.
As all the time, the buck doesn’t cease wherever close to Trump.
When questioned about a number of reviews that Trump’s billionaire co-President Elon Musk could be briefed on confidential navy plans concerning China, Trump ranted that it was “a made-up story by The New York Times.”
He then lamented concerning the lack of “honest journalism” earlier than saying he thought CNN and MSNBC had been “going to be turned off”—no matter that ominous declaration means.
We could also be solely about two months into Trump’s limitless presidency, however not less than we lastly came upon what a ruler (like a ruler) does.
