Trump says there's only about 50 (not 1,000) US military there. Much ado about nada damned thing, as usual, if so.
Trump says.....
Wake me up when he doesn't say anything. More importantly throw a HUGE party when he actually tells the truth.
Seriously, this man has a very tenuous relationship with the truth and always has. Hell even when he tells the truth or a partial truth, he can't help but embellish it with lies.
We are talking about a person who only about a month ago trotted out a hurricane forecast map with the a projected path hand drawn in with a sharpie because he couldn't admit he made a simple (and forgivable if he'd only admitted it at the time) misstatement about Alabama being in the path. And then he kept doubling down on it until some poor shlub at the NWB in Alabama who dared tweet, "no, Alabama is not in the hurricane's path" got thrown under the Trump Bus.
I wouldn't doubt that after the fall out from this, Trump tries to blame someone else for this decision.
Rick Perry is already bruised from being run over by the Trump Buss after being thrown under it, being blamed for the Ukraine phone call.
So who's up on deck to take the fall for this?