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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,019 posts)
Mon May 4, 2026, 12:37 PM Monday

Fact check: Trump denied he made this remark about Iran. He made it on camera one day earlier

On Saturday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he was “looking at” a new Iranian peace proposal. Then a reporter reminded Trump that he had said the previous night that the US might be better off not making a deal with Iran.

“Well, I wouldn’t have to. I didn’t say that,” Trump responded. “I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. But we’re not leaving right now. We’re gonna do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.”

In reality, Trump did say — on camera — what the reporter told him he said. His denial was yet another case in which the president wrongly asserted he hadn’t said something he had said in a public forum.

Trump made the remark about Iran during a Friday speech to the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in South Florida. After mentioning that one of his golf clubs is hosting a PGA Tour tournament, he said: “Yesterday, somebody came up, said, ‘Sir, the tournament is great.’ I said, ‘What tournament are you talking about? I’m so busy with the Iranians calling trying to make a good deal, and we’re not gonna let that happen.’ But … they’ve gotta make a bad deal. But — if they make a deal at all. Because frankly, maybe we’re better off not making a deal at all, do you want to know the truth. Because we can’t let this thing go on.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-trump-denied-made-191345769.html

Donny's brain, as Jeff Tiedrich has put it, has gone fuckity bye.

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Fact check: Trump denied he made this remark about Iran. He made it on camera one day earlier (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
Word salad UpInArms Monday #1
And life long stupidity gave Dementia a running start on incoherency. Marie Marie Monday #7
Just invoke the 25th already! bif Monday #2
One sign of dementia is loss of short term memory. NNadir Monday #3
I worry about that. murielm99 Monday #4
As do we all. NNadir Monday #5
He's always had the same modus operandi FakeNoose Monday #6
shitstain forgets about recording devices and long term storage dave99 Monday #9
He will tell even more variations mercuryblues Monday #8

FakeNoose

(42,212 posts)
6. He's always had the same modus operandi
Mon May 4, 2026, 03:07 PM
Monday

"If I keep lying often enough and loudly enough, people will finally start to believe it."

No Chump, the more frequently you lie, the sooner nobody will ever believe anything you say.

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