The 21 most bizarre lines from Donald Trump's Fox News radio interview 🤨
Whoa boy.
Donald Trump spent part of his Friday — when he wasn’t verbally jousting with Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills —talking to to Fox News, er, personality Brian Kilmeade.
It was Trump’s first appearance on Kilmeade’s radio show since being sworn in for his 2nd term. And it was a doozy.
I went through the whole transcript line by line. The lines you need to see from Trump are below.
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To the Lines!
“Well, I have the best poll numbers I've ever had. So that feels good. It's always nice.”
He’s not wrong here — as I wrote earlier this week. But his poll numbers have previously been horrible. So better than “horrible” is not really great? And away we go!
“We won all seven swing states in addition. And we got the popular vote by millions of votes.”
The election ended 108 days ago. Also, Trump’s final popular vote margin over Kamala Harris was just over 2 million. So he did technically win by “millions” of votes. Two millions.
“People have always said, well, I don't know, is he doing good or don't, we know or whatever?”
“I just got -- I just got the best poll numbers I've had beating everybody. So that's nice.”
“Beating everybody”??? What? I will note that, historically, Trump right now is less popular than every post-World War II president other than…[checks notes]…Donald Trump in 2017.
“Well, we pay Jordan and Egypt a lot of billions of dollars a year. And I was a little surprised they'd say that. But they did.”
He was surprised Jordan and Egypt didn’t immediately embrace his plans to ship almost 2 millions Palestinians in Gaza to them? Or his call for those countries to build permanent homes those refugees? Huh! Who could have seen that coming?!?!
“I think that's a plan that really works, but I'm not forcing it. I'm just going to sit back and recommend it. And then the U.S. would own the site. It'd be no Hamas and it'd be developed. And then you start all over again with a clean plate.”
The expression, I believe, is “clean slate.” Also: Riviera of the Middle East!
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