Trump Mistakes Alaskan Wildlife Refuge for Bagram Air Base
By: Mediaite
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Former President Donald Trump mixed up the name of an Alaskan wildlife refuge and an air base in Afghanistan during a town hall in Flint, Michigan on Tuesday.
Boasting to the audience about how he got oil drilling approved in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, commonly referred to ANWR, Trump said:
We were energy independent, we were soon going to be energy dominant, and we would've been now having so much money coming out of the energy. We just have the best. We have Bagram in Alaska. They say it might be as big, might be bigger, than all of Saudi Arabia. I got it approved. Ronald Reagan couldn't do it, nobody could do it. I got it done. In their first week they [the Biden administration] terminated it.
Instead of ANWR, used the word Bagram - the name of the United States' former air base in Afghanistan.
Trump on energy policy: We have Bagram in Alaska. They say it might be bigger than Saudi Arabia. I got it approved.
(Bagram is an airbase in Afghanistan) pic.twitter.com/AhorJb6Vq2
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 17, 2024
Trump continued to make confusing remarks about Bagram and ANWR, saying, "Check that one out. Bagram. Check that one that. ANW- it's, it's- no, think about this. Between Bagram, between- you go to ANWR…"
Trump still confusing Bagram airbase and ANWR.. Tries to clean it up: Check that one out. Bagram. Check that one out. ANW— it's— it's— no no think of this. Between Bagram. Between— you go to uhh ANWR pic.twitter.com/L1V4UFGF6o
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 17, 2024
Social media users mocked Trump over the blunder, and also criticized Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for nodding her head in agreement when Trump made the slip-up.
"Looking forward to the dozen NYT stories about Trump's age and mental acuity. Oh wait. That's just reserved for Democrats," reacted former Hillary Clinton senior adviser Zac Petkanas.
"Bagram was the airbase he had in Afghanistan- the same base where we kept hundreds of Taliban and ISIS prisoners that Trump released back out into Afghanistan in his final year in office," tweeted Democratic politician and former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath. "He is CLUELESS folks."
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Alaska, Afghanistan? Who cares? He's doing it his way.
Potato / potahto.
Well, ANWR and Bagram do sound a lot alike right? After all , they both have consonants and vowels.
She wants to be the one to reignite the ashes of the MAGA party in four years
She probably never heard of Alaska until now
She said, “oh yeah, that’s the place you can see from Russia.”
Different dimwit
Vultures of a feather flock together.
Kamala doesn’t make those mistakes at her town hall meetings.
She doesnt make them anywhere.