George Conway brutally drags Trump’s geography ignorance with extensive Twitter thread of gaffes
One of the more absurd defenses that Trump supporters have trotted out to explain his scheme to freeze military aid to Ukraine in the hopes of forcing the foreign nation to open a damaging investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter is that this president is legitimately concerned about rooting out corruption.
Nevermind the fact that his administration has been a cesspit of cronyism and sweetheart deals since day one. Nevermind that Trump has a long history of alleged criminal acts. No, the MAGA acolytes want us to believe that for the first time in Trump’s life he expressed concern for something not directly related to himself personally and wanted to assist the Eastern European country in rooting out crooked deals.
This overly generous interpretation of events flies directly in the face of the evidence we have and what we know about Trump’s mastery of geography. It’s exceedingly unlikely that he would care about helping Ukraine when he has since day one demonstrated a staggering ignorance of foreign policy.
It was recently revealed that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed at a reporter and—claiming that Americans don’t care about Ukraine—challenged her to point to the country on a map. She did so easily, but one can’t help but think that Trump himself would have been unable to identify Ukraine on a blank map if asked to do the same.
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George Conway, a Republican lawyer always quick to mock Trump despite the fact that his wife Kellyanne Conway serves as Trump’s counselor, couldn’t resist the urge to mock the president’s oft-demonstrated ignorance. To that end, he compiled a Twitter thread listing some of Trump’s most embarrassing geographic gaffes and some of them are absolutely brutal. Conway kicked off the tweetstorm by saying that the content to follow was aimed at people who believe Trump could manage to find Ukraine on a marked map.
The mistakes ranged from seemingly thinking that Paris is located in Germany, to confusing the leaders of North and South Korea, to claiming that India doesn’t border China. Take a stroll through some of the president’s greatest (or worst) hits, then remember to vote come November so that we can finally eject this dangerous ignoramus from the White House.
A thread for those who think @realDonaldTrump could find Ukraine on a marked map:
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump seems to think Paris is in Germany. (It kind of was for a few years in the 1940s, I guess.) https://t.co/RF5e3Rb1VO
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
Also, @realDonaldTrump didn’t understand that when it’s the afternoon in Washington, it’s the middle of the night in Tokyo. https://t.co/1rRD1SOw0C
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
I have to say that really is my personal favorite. @realDonaldTrump is there trashing the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia for the breakup Yugoslavia, and they’re like, WTF. And then it dons on them—Balkans, Baltics … buffoon.https://t.co/ecZ4a9qOx1
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
Oh, wait. A small correction. @realDonaldTrump thought Nipple and Button were in India, not separate countries. My bad—we all make mistakes. Sorry. https://t.co/TfvMJ05n9m
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump once got a call from the president of *South* Korea, but then told hundreds of journalists that he’d gotten a call from the leader of *North* Korea. https://t.co/qtGtTS2WSf
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump once told the prime minister of India, “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.” (India has a 2,520-mile border with China.)https://t.co/U5ncPjFbbp
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
… yet made the mistake again in 2019. https://t.co/XsRCDJlxbe
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
When Gordon Sondland called @realDonaldTrump on July 26 and said he was in Kyiv, Trump had to ask whether Sondland was in Ukraine, according to the testimony of embassy staffer David Holmes. https://t.co/IXRiivo82z pic.twitter.com/RGkFTYCZ15
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump asked, “Why is Seoul so close to the North Korean border?”
And then, referring to the 10 million inhabitants of South Korea’s capital, he said, “They have to move!”https://t.co/8JZTJQ5Qqt
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
And in 2019, @realDonaldTrump remained blissfully ignorant, and confused about, the distinction between England and the UK. He seems to think that England changed its name. Maybe a branding thing. Who knows. https://t.co/QIYE4lYTEd
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
