{"id":70373,"date":"2026-07-21T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70373"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:42:59","slug":"trump-in-his-own-words-to-make-military-decisions-all-we-do-is-read-the-fake-news-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70373","title":{"rendered":"Trump In His Own Words: To Make Military Decisions &#8216;All We Do is Read the Fake News&#8217; &#8211; REALLY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the Era of Trump has burdened the American people with the depressing dilemma of having to awaken each morning wondering whether Donald Trump will say something mortifyingly stupid that day? Sadly, the answer can always be ascertained by determining whether it is a day that ends in &#8220;Y&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump In His Own Words: To Make Military Decisions 'All We Do is Read the Fake News' - REALLY?%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70373\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump In His Own Words: To Make Military Decisions 'All We Do is Read the Fake News' - REALLY?%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70373\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-pointing.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34647\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are very few people left who will voluntarily defend the intellect and reason of Trump. And most of those who will are in his embarrassingly sycophantic Cabinet, where they spend hours in televised reality show style meetings praising His MAGA-sty as if he were the Second Coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66138\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Gathers His Cabinet Members to Conduct Another Festival of Feckless Trump-Fluffing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So no one will be surprised to hear that Trump humiliated himself again during a press avail with the president of Lebanon on Tuesday morning. During that event Trump took some questions from the White House press corps that he despises, dispensing his usual abundance of idiocy. But in the following exchange he went above and beyond his customary quota of crazy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Do you believe that Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain?<br \/>\n<strong>Trump:<\/strong> They may have. We don&#8217;t have it on record. All we do is read the fake news. You know, we see the news is so wrong so many times. So you know, maybe this one they have right. It doesn&#8217;t mean anything unless they have the material&#8230;We\u2019ll be hitting that area probably pretty soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mr65kjrrqw2o\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidqd2xd3wlefhcj55p4d2adxjgrsfjsw7q4wg4kcdfgomdiwtcfxi\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Q: Do you believe Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain?TRUMP: All we do is read the fake news. Maybe this one they  have right. But it&#39;s okay. It doesn&#39;t mean anything unless they have the material. We&#39;ll be hitting that area pretty soon and very heavily.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mr65kjrrqw2o?ref_src=embed\">2026-07-21T15:43:05.422Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>SERIOUSLY? Trump is admitting that he makes life and death military decisions that he bases wholly on what he reads in the papers. He&#8217;s not saying that he includes the media as a source for his decision making, but that <em>&#8220;All we do is read the fake news.&#8221;<\/em> So his judgments are formed solely by content that he regards as <em>&#8220;fake&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;wrong so many times.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States is generally considered to be a uniquely well informed individual. He or she has access to the most advanced and comprehensive intelligence operations in the world. But Trump prefers to read newspapers and watch television (that he doesn&#8217;t believe), rather than review the product of the nation&#8217;s agencies that are responsible for compiling and validating the data necessary to protect the homeland.<\/p>\n<p>If all he does is <em>&#8220;read the fake news,&#8221;<\/em> what do we need the CIA for? Or the DIA, or the FBI, or the NSA, or the DNI, or any of the other 14 intel agencies, including those in the armed services? In fact, what do we need Trump for? Clearly he has been grossly negligent. He has stated publicly that he doesn&#8217;t receive or read the Presidential Daily Briefings.<\/p>\n<p>All of which explains why the nation is currently embroiled in a reckless and illegal war with Iran for which Trump has no plan for progressing or concluding. It likewise explains why we have a president who is threatening more nations, including Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, Greenland, and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Is that stupid? Well, coming from Trump who thinks that windmills drive whales crazy, that stealth jets are actually invisible, that we should nuke hurricanes, that George Washington\u2019s Army took over airports, and that injecting bleach will cure COVID, it&#8217;s just more of the ravings of a man who calls himself a <em>&#8220;stable genius.&#8221;<\/em> And if the sane among us don&#8217;t manage to rein in his insanity, we are all in big trouble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70370\" target=\"_blank\">Trump FREAKS OUT Over a Democratic Proposal: \u2018They Do This, and the Republican Party is DEAD!\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70367\" target=\"_blank\">REALLY? Fox News is DUMBFOUNDED that Iran is Able to Fight Back After Trump \u2018Obliterated\u2019 Them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70285\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Himself Confirms that He is the Most Deviant Lawbreaker in Presidential History<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the Era of Trump has burdened the American people with the depressing dilemma of having to awaken each morning wondering whether Donald Trump will say something mortifyingly stupid that day? 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