On Tuesday, a group of children arrived at the White House to watch the president sign a proclamation reviving the Presidential Fitness Test Award.
What began as a routine event, however, quickly shifted into a detailed briefing on obliterated navies, nuclear annihilation, women being shot in the head during protests and transgender mutilation.
Trump acknowledged at one point that the subject matter might be age-inappropriate, but continued anyway.
The event itself lasted roughly an hour, far longer than planned. It began with the proclamation, but quickly moved elsewhere. Trump signed the document, looked at the children around him and then began talking about Iran, which he described as a skirmish.
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“I call it a skirmish because Iran has no chance. They never did. They know it,” he said. “They have no Navy, totally wiped out. They have no air force, totally wiped out. They have no anti-aircraft capability, totally wiped out, no radar. They have no leaders. The leaders are wiped out, the whole thing.”
That was only the start.
He brought up nuclear weapons next and briefly acknowledged who he was speaking to. “We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon. You might be too young for this,” he said, glancing at the children before continuing. “They probably know. They probably know better than most people, but you can’t let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon, or the world would be in trouble. The world would be in trouble.”
Then, without prompting, he circled back again. Trump returned to Iran for a third time. “Now we’re going to take a hit because we have to make a journey down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon. They would have had a nuclear weapon in, within two weeks,” he claimed.
“Remember, we sent that beautiful B2 bomber in, and we blew up their nuclear potential. It was obliterated for those that are not aware.”
The Arms Control Association noted this week that Trump has separately dismissed using nuclear weapons against Iran while simultaneously warning of catastrophic scenarios if Iran develops them, a distinction the children in the Oval Office were not given time to process.
Trump described Iranian protesters being killed in detail, pointing to his own head to illustrate where women were shot. “A woman dropped dead with a bullet right there, always right there, and another woman dropped, and then the word started to spread, and then there was panic, and then they ran,” he said.
He then told reporters, as the children looked on: “They should do the smart thing because we don’t want to go in and kill people, really, I don’t want to.”
Between those moments, the speech moved unpredictably. Trump told the room that “Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him?” He repeated his election fraud claims. He complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
He then argued Democrats supported “transgender mutilization of your children,” paused, and added: “Don’t listen to this, kids.” The children had been listening for approximately forty-five minutes by that point.
Featured image via YouTube screengrab
