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Boy Scouts Execs Deny Calling Trump to Praise His Speech

Trump claimed the organization's head called it the greatest speech ever.

The Boy Scouts organization on Wednesday denied that its head called President Trump to praise him for his speech last week during the national jamboree, the Associated Press reported. The organization's president and chief executive both said they never placed such a call, days after the president claimed the organization’s chief had called to say Trump’s politically aggressive speech was “the greatest speech that was ever made to them.” During the speech, the president broke from the organization’s tradition to push his political agenda and, at one point, encouraged the boy scouts in attendance to boo former President Obama.