The "Donald Trump thinks Operation Desert Storm was in Vietnam" thing going around is misleading.

[Music Man]

Yes, the "swift and swiffian" sentence was a hot mess, but the Tweets from Laurence Tribe and others cut off what precedes "into the jungles of Vietnam" line that make it clear Trump was not saying Desert Storm was Vietnam or that Vietnam was a swift victory. In context where you see the full construction, it's basically:

"They launched from air craft carriers in World War II. They flew over Korea. They carried people into the jungles of Vietnam. They delivered a swift victory... in Operation Desert Storm."

It's probably why at least one of the Tweets about it was removed.

Trump doesn't need our help looking dumb and dishonest. Let this particular one go, ya'll.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

1. Trump thinks windmills cause cancer.

It isn’t a stretch to say he has no clue about Vietnam or Desert Storm.

The more the mangled sentence is played, the worse he looks.

Just having him and his supporters try to explain it makes him look pathetic.

That’s the point.

Make him deny his stupidity and play it on a loop over and over again.

Definitely not letting this one go.

[Walleye]

2. Ok. But imagine if Biden had said the exact same thing

Think trump and his people would be fair? Or would they ridicule and misrepresent the content?

[Music Man]

5. They would lie, saying Joe Biden thinks Vietnam was a swift victory that included Desert Storm.

I'm not saying the "swift and sweeping" bit isn't worthy of ridicule. I'm saying that implying Trump thinks Vietnam was a swift victory that involved Desert Storm is dishonest and EASILY discredited, when we have many other stronger arguments. To say otherwise is to say, "I am OK with dishonesty if it defeats Donald Trump."

[Raven]

3. well, here's the thing: when the listener has to struggle to parse the leader's speech, we have a

problem. I watched that speech and I couldn't figure out what the hell he was saying. And, as far as your advice to "let this one go"... we have let so much "go " with this man that I'm not willing to let anything go from now on. If Joe Biden had done this, he'd be swimming in ridicule.

[pwb]

4. Trump is a dumb fuck either way.

He should not talk about things he does not understand. No one in trumps entire family through history ever served America.

[agingdem]

6. Trump's daddy bought his boy an exemption...

(that potentially lethal non-existent bone spur)... but never let it be said the orange asshole wasn't "fighting" the Vietnam war in his own way...trying not to contract syphilis...

[MontanaMama]

7. Absolutely none of what he said

was accurate or made any damned sense....once again. This is not how a president should speak. He does not get a pass.

[C_U_L8R]

8. It was pandering word salad at best

[doc03]

9. Well what about the Revolutionary war didn't they

also use airplanes there according to Trump?

[Arkansas Granny]

10. It wasn't the Desert Storm/Vietnam statement that struck me as much as

the schweeping, schwift, swiffer stammering that proceeded it.

It did throw me off for a minute when he talked about Vietnam then Desert Storm and then jumped back to Vietnam, but his speeches are always so disconnected that I didn't think much about it.

The difficulty pronouncing words, however, does concern me.

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. I kept expecting him to say something about "Schweddy Balls".

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/nprs-delicious-dish-schweddy-balls/3505994

[mnmoderatedem]

11. +1000

trump gives us plenty of ammo on his own. We don't need edited clips taken out of context to make him look like an idiot.

[Demonaut]

12. nah, it's still good to go