Trump Gaffes – Part 2: War on Error

 Posted by at 10:56 am  Politics
Aug 222020
 

Trump Gaffes Part 2 will focus on his verbal, pronunciation and spelling slipups, and I’ll start with the low-hanging fruit.

While it’s impossible to figure out the very first Trump gaffe, one of the earliest ones was just a couple of months into his administration – back in May of 2017.  As always, Trump just deletes anything he deems embarrassing – so there’s only a screenshot of his famous whine about negative press Covfefe:

But just because Trump deletes it doesn’t mean the Twittersphere is going to let it pass.

Once the Mueller Investigation began, I don’t think Trump let a day pass without whining about something.  One of his longer whines was when he claimed that Democrats were unable to find a Smocking Gun.

(No idea why, but he let this one remain.)

Fortunately the Twitterverse was able to locate the Smocking Gun:

(One thing we can all agree on is that Trump has never COLLUDED with a Spell Checker.)

After the Clemson football team was crowned national champions, Trump invited them to the White House.  But his self-induced government shutdown (because the funding bill didn’t include money for his Wall) meant the White House kitchen staff was gone – so he had to improvise.

But who knew that rather than standard fast food fare, he would elect to get Hamberders instead!

Burger King responded brilliantly:

A surprising fact I learned while putting this together is that Trump gaffes, when committed in an official capacity, are memorialized by the official White House records.

An example is when Trump saluted parents who sacrifice for the FURNITURE of their children.  It’s in the official White House transcript:

One that truly baffles me is that Trump has repeatedly, and on multiple occasions, claimed that the F-35 Stealth aircraft is LITERALLY INVISIBLE.

 I personally think he has a Wonder Woman fixation – and is thinking of her “Literally Invisible” plane:

 One of my favorites is during a July 4th celebration the Teleprompter stopped working, and Trump had to wing it.  If you had any doubt how the Revolutionary War was going to turn out, Trump reassured you that the tides changed in our favor when Gen. Washington was able to take over all the airports:

 

Our Army manned the air, it ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.”

Here’s George commanding our “Revolutionary” Air Force:

And I guess George agreed with Tom Cruise even way back then that …

“I felt the need … the need for speed”

There are so many more Trump gaffes, I’m going to switch to compilation videos to help out.

We’ve all known that Trump – combining his 3rd grade reading level and difficulty using a Teleprompter – produces disastrous pronunciations.

 

Even when a person is standing right next to him, Trump can NOT remember anyone’s name.

And we’ll close with one from the Daily Show.  We’re all aware that Trump et al have been trying (with no success) to convince folks that Biden’s going senile.  With a clever job of splicing, the Daily Show was able to turn the tables and make Fox News extremely concerned about Trump’s mental acuity – using his own words!

I’ve left out quite a few – but I did try to select the ones that amused me the most.  But I think it’s time I move on to another topic next week.

Hopefully you feel better armed to counter any claims mocking Biden’s mental acuity.

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Trump Gaffes – Part 1: Geography

 Posted by at 11:19 am  Politics
Aug 152020
 

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:

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.”

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.

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.)

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.

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:

 

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