Trump is crippling his war sales-pitch with repeated goof-up: MS NOW
Donald Trump has repeatedly called his Iran war an “excursion,” which drew rolled-eyes on MS NOW on Friday morning, with one host claiming the president doesn't seem to know the true meaning of the word.
The “Morning Joe” segment began with a supercut of the president making statements like, “This is an excursion. We figured oil prices would go up, which they will. They'll also come down,” and later claiming, “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.”
That led co-host, Willie Geist to suggest, “President Trump repeatedly calling the war with Iran a 'little excursion'; a war that has killed American troops, injured about 150 of them, destabilized the Middle East and driven oil over $100 a barrel. A little excursion is kind of like a half-day snorkeling trip you book on your vacation to the Bahamas, not a war with Iran.”
“In its definition of an excursion, [is] ‘a short, organized pleasure trip a la snorkeling, often lasting a few hours. Incursion, a sudden, often hostile entrance or invasion into a territory or place’,” Jonathan Lemire read to his colleague.
“The smart money would say that one of President Trump's advisors used the word incursion with him: ‘Sir, it's an incursion. It's going to be a short military action.’ I mean, it may not be that short, but that's the word that he was given,” he explained.
“He heard it as ‘excursion’ and no one has had the guts to correct him. And now he has said it over and over and over. And as you say, Willie, excursion, whether he means to or not, really diminishes the stakes in the lives lost in this conflict.”
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