“I remember Pearl Harbor,” President Trump told Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in June.
There are two things that intrigue me about that.
1. Trump knew he had no actual memory of Pearl Harbor, so he was intentionally lying. Why did he feel the need to lie?
2. Trump apparently thought it was a PLAUSIBLE lie–that he could have actually remembered Pearl Harbor. Which confirms what many others have said–that he has no real sense of history. He doesn’t read, so he’s got some huge information holes.
I don’t know which part intrigues me the most–telling an intentional lie, or nor realizing his lie was totally implausible. I guess the second part.
I’m sure Abe went back to Japan and got a lot of good laughs telling the story.
