Folks, I almost spilled my coffee reading this one. It seems President Donald Trump is at it again, trying to rewrite history about his own public remarks, this time about the war with Iran. He’s claiming that his predictions of the war lasting mere weeks were actually about eradicating the nuclear threat from Iran, not the entire war. Bless their hearts, I think someone needs to remind him what he actually said. According to CNN, Trump said in March that he thought the war would be over in “four weeks,” “four to five weeks,” or “four to six weeks.” His White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also repeated these claims, citing a timeline of “four to six weeks” for the war as a whole.
In a social media post on Thursday, Trump claimed that his “four to six weeks” projections were about the time it would take to eradicate the nuclear threat from Iran, not the time it would take to conclude the entire war. However, when a journalist from TIME Magazine reminded him of his previous comments, Trump responded by saying that the press had misinterpreted him. No, that’s indeed what Trump said, and his press secretary echoed those claims.
It’s possible that Trump said somewhere that he was referring specifically to the nuclear threat when he spoke of being finished in weeks. However, the White House couldn’t provide any examples when CNN asked if there were any. Trump clearly said in multiple public comments that he thought the entire war would be finished in just weeks. Leavitt also regularly used a timeline of “four to six weeks” and attributed it to Trump.
There are several instances where Trump and his administration made comments about the expected length of the war. On March 2, Trump said in an interview with CNN that he thought the war would last “four weeks.” Later that day, he made a projection of “four to five weeks” while talking about the war as a whole. Leavitt also cited an estimate of “approximately four to six weeks” for the war as a whole.
In other instances, Trump offered vaguer comments on how long the war would last. For example, he said on March 9 that it would end “very soon” without providing a timeline. However, the record shows that the “six weeks” figure came from his own mouth.
In conclusion, it seems that Trump is trying to rewrite history, but the facts just don’t support his claims. He made it clear that he thought the war would be over in a matter of weeks, and now he’s trying to spin it as something else. I guess that’s just politics as usual, but it’s still amusing to watch. And who knows, maybe someday he’ll even convince himself that he never said those things in the first place 🙄.
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Former remote-throwing champion turned #1 couch commentator on liberal panic in the media. Born in Texas (or so his mug says), he earned a degree in Fake Newsology & Beer Philosophy from YouTube University.
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