Trump to DHS: Can't we just nuke hurricanes?

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I'll just leave this one here under "Trump isn't that stupid".

Quote:White House debunks Trump's claim about Melania


President Donald Trump gave a joint news conference Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron before his departure from the G7 summit in France. He then stuck around to take additional questions by himself.

Trump made at least eight false claims, seven of which he had made before. (The new one was an odd claim about Melania Trump and Kim Jong Un.) And he made at least five claims that we'll call misleading, questionable or lacking in context.



False claims

Melania Trump and Kim Jong Un


"The first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she would agree with me he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential," Trump said.



Facts First: Melania Trump was not present for any of Trump's three meetings with Kim Jong Un, and there is no evidence she has ever spoken to Kim.



White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement later Monday: "President Trump confides in his wife on many issues including the detailed elements of his strong relationship with Chairman Kim -- and while the First Lady hasn't met him, the President feels like she's gotten to know him too."

We're still calling the statement false. Trump's phrasing, "gotten to know," clearly suggested some level of personal interaction between Melania Trump and Kim.

When the White House has to issue a spin correction of what the POTUS says about his own wife we might have issues.


BTW, many, MANY more corrections about what Trump said at the link.