Thread by @AngrierWHStaff

I hope you’re ready for a generous helping of word salad. I’m going to highlight some of the crazier points of Trump’s Face the Nation transcript.

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Re: the next potential shutdown.

Trump says he’s taking nothing off the table because there’s a national emergency.

Apparently such a bigly emergency that he had to play golf all weekend. 2/

This is his answer on Syria. If you can decipher this, you speak dumbass better than I do. 3/

Here, Margaret hits him on creating a vacuum and bringing about a resurgence of terrorism.

He responds by telling her not to worry, we have fast planes.

...seriously. At least he didn’t say they’re invisible.

Also, we’re leaving, but we’re not.

We’re staying in Iraq at the big beautiful base we built to keep an eye Iran, who is the real problem 🙄

WE CAN SEE IRAN FROM OUR BACKYARD IN IRAQ GUYS!!

“I’m going to trust the intelligence I’m putting there.”

Trump has been POTUS for over two years and still has no idea how the IC works.

I don’t know where he thinks the information his IC chiefs give him — and Congress — comes from, but spoiler: those guys