Trump Gaffes – Part 1: Geography

We know that since Trump has no policies, programs or plans to use in trying to promote his reelection, he’s going to rely on doing what he always does: Mocking and denigrating his opponents.

Of course, one of the major themes he’ll go to time and again will be “Sleepy Joe” is getting senile or suffers from dementia, as witnessed here:

Joe Biden got tongue tied over the weekend when he was unable to properly deliver a very simple line about his decision to run for President. Get used to it, another low I.Q. individual!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2019

So I decided it would serve us well to “arm” ourselves by recalling some of the YUGE gaffes Trump has committed.  But I learned that it’s simply too YUGE of an undertaking for just one post, so I’m going to split it up into parts, trying to focus on one aspect at a time.

Today I’ll primarily be zeroing in on Trump’s Geography Gaffes.

Living in the KCMO Metro and being a proud Chiefs fan, I’ll start with the his Tweet (since deleted, so I only have a screenshot) congratulating the Chiefs on their great comeback victory over the 49ers – claiming they represented the “Great State of Kansas … so very well”.

Very nice – except the Chiefs are in the Great State of Missouri!

He really does have a problem with American geography – like his claim to be building his infamous “Wall” along the border of Colorado.  Just as with his Missouri-Kansas gaffe, he quickly deleted it.

But he could have just as easily corrected it with an instrument he’s intimately familiar with – his Sharpie:

But he feels no need to limit his geographical blunders to the USA when he has the whole world available to him.

Only heaven knows why, but Trump has called the country of Belgium “A beautiful city.”

.@realDonaldTrump thinks Belgium is a city, albeit a pretty one. https://t.co/0CQWpckgk7

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020

When hosting a visit by Indian PM Modi, Trump actully told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that “It’s not as though you have China right on your border.”   Ahhh … Donnie – have you EVER looked at a map?

For the record, India’s 2,500-mile border with China is more than 500 miles longer than the U.S. border with Mexico.

And for some odd reason, Trump thinks that Paris is in Germany.

If you think that Paris is in Germany, well then of course you’re going to think that the Chiefs play in Kansas. https://t.co/RF5e3Rb1VO

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 3, 2020

One of my favorites is when Trump finally learned that Nepal & Bhutan were NOT parts of India (they’re not) – but actually individual countries (they are).

And Trump gets Bonus Points for pronouncing them “Nipple” and “Button”.  (No – really … he did.  He’s that dumb!)

Trump was exercising some of those amazing Article II powers that he believes grants him “the right to do whatever I want as president”.  (Yeah – he really said that) when he created a brand new African nation out of whole cloth in referring to the country of “Nambia” — not once, but TWICE.

Aides had to later clarify to a confused audience that “Nambia” does NOT exist, and that Trump was trying to refer to Namibia – and not Zambia or Gambia.

While we’re on the African CONTINENT, Trump has repeatedly called Africa a “country”.

Then there was the time Trump created a diplomatic furor when he accused the leaders of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania of being responsible for starting the war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The leaders figured out that he had mixed up “Baltic” with “Balkan.”  (Hey – they sound a good deal alike.)

It’s a well-documented fact that Trump is a famous name dropper.  Fortunately Prince Charles was a good sport when Trump called him the “Prince of Whales”.  (Don’t bother getting out your maps of the UK – it only exists in Trump’s mind.)

"The Prince of Whales". Very funny, Donald Trump. Did you do that on porpoise? pic.twitter.com/EbivrOLVLV

— Prince Charles (@Charles_HRH) June 13, 2019

We can only imagine how Trump would mangle meeting the Dauphin of France.

And why should he limit himself to Earth when he has the whole universe to screwup – like claiming that the Moon is part of Mars.

For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2019

Sticking with our Solar System, that flub prompted one person to respond in a Comment by suggesting something that I believe would be anatomically difficult to do:

NSFW

https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/1137051501107589120

Without a doubt, his most famous geographical gaffe has been his longstanding belief that Honolulu is located in Kenya!  The good citizens of Honolulu had fun greeting him at the airport with mocking signs when he stopped in Hawaii on his return from South Asia .

And I want to close by sharing my current favorite GIF in a side-by-side demonstration that Biden does NOT have dementia but does have way more stamina than Trump could ever hope to have: