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Wettest from the standpoint of water”
Sept. 19, 2018: From the White House lawn, Trump delivers an
analysis of Hurricane Florence, which killed dozens of people in the Carolinas, as “one of the wettest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of water.”
—HG
“Tim Apple”
March 6, 2019: At an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting, the president
calls Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple.” The year before, he had
called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson “Marillyn Lockheed.”
—HG
“Moon-mars”
June 7, 2019: Triggered by an innocuous rhetorical question about NASA
posed by Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto, the president describes the planet Mars, on Twitter, as something “of which the Moon is a part,” by which he means that missions to the moon are to be used as preparation for a mission to Mars. He adds that he believes NASA should focus its efforts on subjects such as “science.”
—BML
“Airports during the revolutionary war”
July 4, 2019: Trump
celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by praising how George Washington’s Continental Army “took over airports” during the Revolutionary War.
—HG
“Kidney has a special place in the heart”
July 10, 2019: Trump
signs an executive order related to kidney disease and thanks an audience of
nephrologists like so: “You’ve worked so hard on these things, you’ve worked so hard on the kidney. Very special. The kidney has a very special place in the heart. It’s an incredible thing.”
—BML