There’s been a lot of chatter this week about Donald Trump‘s disastrous joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, during which Trump claimed he didn’t believe the FBI when it said Russia meddled in the 2016 and instead he was siding with Putin.
After a public outcry from both Democrats and Republicans alike over those remarks, Trump held an emergency press conference to walk back everything he had said 24 hours earlier.
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Yesterday, Trump, who once bragged about using “the best words”, claimed he “misspoke” when he said he didn’t “see any reason why it would be” Russia who meddled in the 2016 election and that what he really meant to say was “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia” who interfered.
How about we take this to the next level?
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See the difference? Would versus wouldn’t. It’s an easy mistake to make. Right? Right?!
“The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia’,” Trump explained. “It should have been obvious. So you can put that in and I think that probably clarifies things.”
When asked to clarify whether he believes the FBI when it says Russia, indeed, interfered with the 2016 election, Trump replied, “I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place.”
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Then, in the same breath, he added, “Could be other people also. There’s a lot of people out there.”
Later, he took to Twitter to defend himself once again:
The meeting between President Putin and myself was a great success, except in the Fake News Media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2018
Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia. They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2018
So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in Helsinki. Putin and I discussed many important subjects at our earlier meeting. We got along well which truly bothered many haters who wanted to see a boxing match. Big results will come!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2018
Annnnd we’re back to square one.
Now, the memes…
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tham
I think my fav is “Trump supporter logic”
CarrieV
Yes, a very good one! My fave might be the trump “boyfriend” ogling Russia while the USA “girlfriend” can’t believe her eyes.
And just when I was getting tired of that boy-with-the-roving-eye meme.
michel_banen
Hilarious !
OzJosh
If the US had elected a brain-damaged pervert with a bad case of Tourette’s, it really couldn’t be any worse.
CarrieV
Whaddya mean “if”???