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‘Didn’t Specify American’: Trump Mocked for Claiming Other Presidents Told Him They Should Have Built a Wall
President Trump held a rambling, stream-of-consciousness press event Friday afternoon in the Rose Garden and made many statements that defy belief. Among them, that he’s talked with several previous presidents and they all told him they should have built a wall on the Southern border.
“This should have been done by all of the presidents that preceded me,” Trump told reporters, about building a wall.
“They all know it,” he continued, adding, “some of them have told me that we should have done it,” he claimed.
There are four living ex-presidents. President Trump says "some of them" have told him we should have built a border wall in the past. pic.twitter.com/ReFDDlmKmp
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) January 4, 2019
There is little chance President Trump’s remarks are truthful. He is claiming that at least two of the following presidents said they should have built a wall on the Southern border: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.
On social media many were quick to mock him:
He didn't specify if they were AMERICAN presidents, however… https://t.co/Xtf3bWym1P
— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) January 4, 2019
Talking to the paintings already? https://t.co/3gCun6afwq
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 4, 2019
We can deny this. – RZ https://t.co/vz6hYjC7Lc
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 4, 2019
He did not name them. https://t.co/HXY6OA4zwr
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 4, 2019
Presidents of cruel dictatorships, I presume https://t.co/FvdGFiJt3C
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) January 4, 2019
That would mean that they actually had to talk to him. Which they would never do. https://t.co/Bus1uyxGY0
— mitch narzem (@mitchnarz) January 4, 2019
This never happened. https://t.co/ePq7sFjpfx
— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) January 4, 2019
yeah, he heard it from the portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office https://t.co/sgW8SymC4b
— Samit Sarkar (@SamitSarkar) January 4, 2019
I remember reading that late at night Nixon used to talk to the paintings in the White House. Perhaps @realDonaldTrump is doing the same thing and thinking the paintings are talking back and telling him to build the wall? I wouldn't put it past him. https://t.co/gZ4PJmk5Ad
— Amy Grimm (@AGRIMMONE) January 4, 2019
Who? President Putin? Who?
Here are our living former Presidents: Obama, W Bush, Clinton, Carter
I ask again, who? https://t.co/ROdmz7BhFj
— Petty Betty (@PettyBettyBB) January 4, 2019
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