At White House event pushing purported victims of over-regulation, Trump asserts that despite their concerns, he has been persecuted more than everyone else in attendance.
Trump claims that in California "they make their cars so light, it's papier mache and you get in an accident it's very, very dangerous."
Trump claims "we're getting a lot of praise" for leaving Kurdish forces defenseless against Turkey.
Trump says he will "wipe out" the Turkish economy if Erdogan commits genocide against the Kurds.
Trump on the possible fallout from abandoning the Kurds: "that's the way it goes." Says a lot of what is happening is because European countries didnt want to take in ISIS fighters/detainees.
Trump whines that "the Republican Party has been treated extremely badly" and "very unfairly" by Democrats in the House. Claims the +37 Democratic majority is a "tiny margin."
Trump attacks @RepAdamSchiff for taking his "congenial and gentle words" to Ukraine president and "he made me sound like a tyrant." Trump adds "there are those who say he should be prosecuted for what he did, he should certainly be impeached."
Nobody but Trump says this.
Nobody but Trump says this.
Throughout this event, Trump keeps turning to @RepMarkMeadows (standing to his right) to be a "yes" man to corroborate Trump's extremely skewed version of events.
Trump says the White House insider who alerted the whistleblower about his call was probably made up, but if they are real, they're probably a spy and he doesn't want any spies in the White House.
Trump claims that if you took a poll of the FBI the "vast, vast majority" of people in the agency would support him as president. FYI Trump has repeatedly attacked and derided the findings from FBI and other agencies that Russia interfered in 2016 on his behalf.
Trump criticizes *the Kurds* for not helping America in WWII, "they didn't help us with Normandy." (!!!)
Trump goes into extremely lurid detail about parents of fallen soldiers "scream," breaking through barriers and "jump on top of the coffins" after being devastated by their losses.
Trump tells a story about a wounded soldier whose face was "almost obliterated" and in "a thousand fragments" using his "sir" story format, including a "crying" father. This is the story format Trump usually uses when he's totally making up a story.
