President Donald Trump told a story about South Korea on Monday. Every single part of it is false.
Trump has delivered versions of his fictional story before; CNN debunked one telling last year. The president delivered Monday’s version the day after he announced the US would reduce military exercises with South Korea – citing his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and also mentioning that South Korea declined to participate in the US war with Iran.
The latest version of Trump’s tale, which you can watch in full here, went like this:
South Korea “essentially” didn’t pay for the cost of the US military presence in the country before Trump first became president. Trump then got South Korea to unhappily agree to pay “$3 billion” in a year, with further increases the following year and the year after that. But then the 2020 election was “rigged” against him. When Joe Biden became president, South Korea convinced Biden that Trump was “probably a bad person” and they shouldn’t have to pay the money, so Biden “immediately rescinded” Trump’s “order.”
Let’s walk through why all of this is wrong.
man there are so many disturbing things about trump its hard to remember them all at any particular point in time. he keeps on talking about his friendship with some of the worst facists in current history. again I just don’t see how any actual american who actually values traditional democratic principles and limits of governement as enshired in the constitution and other founding documents, can vote for republicans who endorse all this bulltrump.