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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe president told a room full of Israelis that he "just got back from the Middle East":
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
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Seriously?? An idiot is in our WH
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I would think that references to flying with his own arms would be a clue, that this was an attempt at humor.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This video clip is gonna get a workout:
louis-t
(23,297 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)He's thinking the Levant is completely separate from the Middle East.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)Maybe he "feels' this way this because Israel is fairly westernized.
But it is completely in the ME.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)No one really uses the term "Levant" besides academics. I was being sarcastic.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)in EUROPE?!
Where ELSE would it be, but in the ME, bordered on 3 sides by, you know, Middle-Eastern countries?!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It was a tongue in cheek response. Hardly anyone knows what "Levant" means. In other words, I'm attributing academic status to the orange four year old.
Here is the wiki for Levant so everyone can now know what it refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)If we used it while he was in Israel, it would confuse the hell out of the right wingers
Cirque du So-What
(25,973 posts)I'd bet my paycheck numbnutz has never used that word in a sentence, doesn't know its meaning, AND would fail miserably if he tried to spell it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The Middle East is all those radical Muslims dressing funny, don't you know.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Trump gets beaten up by words coming out of his ass(mouth)
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)"Great place. Just great. I mean it sincerely."
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)"In the West West, we have an East and then a Midwest, before the West, which is, I guess, the West West's West, also called the Wild West because we love guns and shooting Indians, but not as much as when my friend Andrew Jackson was President."