Trump, 79, Forgets When He Last Went to the Middle East
Donald Trump claimed he has “just left” Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.
Donald Trump endured another confusing senior moment when he said he had “just left” the Middle East—having actually last visited four months ago. “Leaders from all over the world that talked to me… I just left the Middle East—King of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE… Then I was with the heads of NATO,” Trump, 79, boasted during an address to the White House Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, in a clip posted by journalist Aaron Rupar to Bluesky. However, the president’s Middle East tour—Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE—actually took place back in mid-May. He then met “the heads of NATO” at the Hague summit on June 24–25. Trump’s embarrassing slips are becoming a pattern documented by the Daily Beast over the past few months. The president has forgotten the name of the ocean he meant on Fox & Friends, blanked on a “big” war he says he ended, failed to spot Finland’s president sitting directly opposite him, and misnamed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as golfer Cristie Kerr, among others.
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