DAY 89: Trump administration lied about sending military to deter North Korea; It was in the opposite direction

The New York Times reported today that when the Trump administration announced last week it would send an Aircraft carrier to deterr North Korea, the Aircraft carrier was actually sailing in the opposite direction, away from North Korea.

The whole thing started on April 11, when North Korea announced they would test a messile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon. As a response, the Trump administration said they would send the carrier Carl Vinson and four more warships to the Korean Penninsula. But instead, the carrier was heading in the opposite direction, into the Indian Ocean, in order to participate in joint excercises with the Australian navy.

The reason why the media found about about thos flop was because the Trump administration posted a photo of the aircraft carrier on April 17, but the photo showed the carrier was in the opposite direction. The photo was taken two days earlier, four days after the Trump administration announced the use of the carrier to "deter" North Korea.

Interestingly, according to The New York Times, the carrier is now on its way to the Korean Peninsula and it is expected to arrive in the region "sometime next week." Right... so three weeks after the Trump administration bragged about it.

By the way: when the White House was asked for comment, they told the press to ask the Pentagon. In other words, Trump didn't want to take responsibility for the fail.

Interestingly, when Trump was asked by Fox News if America sabotaged the failed North Korean missile that triggered this whole thing, according to CNBC's Steve Kopack, Trump literally said "I don't want to comment on it."

Of course not. Because America didn't sabotaged it. North Korean missiles have failed in the past, and Kim Jong-Un's, North Korea's dictator, has even used photoshoped images to replicate his amphibian vehicles, as it was widely reported back in 2013.

Now Trump is doing the same thing Kim Jong-Un did in 2013; He's bragging about naval vessels that weren't even there.

As a colophon to this FAIL by the Trump administration, turns out Trump claimed Bill Clinton was "outplayed" by Kim Jong-Un. Except Kim-Jong Un was not North Korea's leader in the 1990s. It was his father, Kim Jong-Il. Kim Jong-Un came to power in 2011, 11 years after Clinton had left the White House. In fact, when Clinton left the White House Kim Jong-Un was 16 years old.

That's how little Trump knows what he's talking about.