We have not spent $350 billion on Ukraine.
10:45, Trump finally gets to Ukraine.
The way this address has been set up, I was half-expecting Trump to say “We’ve caught the Pakistani terrorist and we’re bringing him here…right now. Bring him out, boys!” And then the dude is trotted out in manacles and a jumpsuit.
Trump erroneously includes French casualty figures in his assertion that a full quarter of workers died in digging the Panama Canal. The American project’s mortality rate was around ten percent (obviously still a stunning rate, but less than half of Trump’s figure).
Well, I never thought I’d see Donald Trump straight up pitch the people of Greenland on their impending annexation by the United States in Congress.
Trump on Greenland: “I think we’re going to get it, One way or another, we’re going to get it.” Pledges to Greenland’s people, “We’re going to make you rich.” Still sounds as if he is serious.
Building ships “very fast” is music to my ears, but as with so many things, the devil is in the details and in delivering what is promised.
We’re going to rebuild American shipbuilding with subsidized port facilities? How does that get hulls in the water in the next four years?
First Trump turns his address into the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Now he’s handing out college acceptances to kids in the audience.
He knows his theater.
Trump going out of his way to stress the recruiting surge that has occurred since his election win . . . it’s good to see. If you haven’t read it yet, there’s an excellent report on it by our Brittany Bernstein.