Donald Trump made a lot of news in his interview on Fox and Friends on Tuesday morning, from promising no American “boots on the ground” as part of any post-war peacekeeping force in Ukraine, to riffing on Fox anchor Ainsley Earhardt’s recent engagement to her colleague Sean Hannity and the idea they could peacefully go out to dinner in Washington thanks to the National Guard troops stationed there.
Also, the president appeared to forget the name of the Pacific Ocean.
Per The Daily Beast, Trump first claimed that European nations are “consumed far more with [Ukraine] because they’re right there.”
“You know we have an ocean that’s separating us, right? A thing called… an ocean,” he said. “A big, beautiful ocean. And, uh, they don’t, they’re right there. So it’s a different kind of a thing for them.”
Trump, 79, Forgets the Name of the Pacific Ocean
‘A THING CALLED AN OCEAN’
The president called into “Fox and Friends” and appeared to be lost at sea.
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Trump didn’t seem to be able to place the name of the ocean to which he was referring. He may have meant the Atlantic, which separates the U.S. from Europe, or perhaps the Pacific, which separates the U.S. from the Eastern part of Russia.
It’s the latest in a series of recent verbal flubs by the 79-year-old president, which included stating, on more than one occasion, that he was headed to “Russia,” rather than Alaska, for last week’s summit with Vladimir Putin.
Rolling Stone wrote last week about how Trump’s “senior moments” are getting worse.
“In the case of Trump, the president is not, today, the same man who first assumed office in 2017,” the Rolling Stone story said. “He has new health issues, less self control, stronger authoritarian impulses, and visibly looser skin. His clear physical aging has been accompanied by a string of gaffes and senior moments that can no longer be excused by the trappings of his public persona.
Does America have another president in decline?
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“If the standard — as Trump has himself stressed repeatedly in reference to Biden — is that a president’s cognitive decline is a disqualifier and a potential liability, it’s worth taking a look at the man currently sitting behind the Resolute Desk and some of his more egregious senior moments in his second term as president.”
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