MaddowBlog-Trump's made-up conversation about Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is part of a weird pattern
As Trump boasts about imaginary conversations and points to unnamed sources who’ve labeled him “the president of Europe,” there's cause for concern.
At a WH event, Trump shared imaginary details about a conversation with Wes Moore that didn’t happen, embraced “the president of Europe†label, and falsely claimed he stopped 7 (and 10) wars.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-26T16:17:12.980Z
Maybe now’s a good time to renew the whole “cognitive decline†conversation? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-made-conversation-maryland-gov-wes-moore-part-weird-pattern-rcna227226
As this week got underway, Trump once again brought up Moore at another White House event to share an odd story.
Trump: "I met him at the Army-Navy game. They said 'Oh, there's Gov. Moore, he'd love to see you.' He came over to me, he hugged me, he shook my hand. He said 'Sir, you're the greatest president of my lifetime.'"
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-08-25T16:45:44.602Z
......Moore, not surprisingly, mocked the strange tale. “I’m a person who takes my integrity very seriously, and I spent the past six months before that election campaigning as to why I did not think that he should be the next president of the United States,” the governor told WBAL Radio. “So when I say that conversation never happened, that imaginary conversation never happened, I mean that conversation never happened.”
The Washington Post reported soon after:
Video taken at the game by a crew for a Trump documentary series on Fox Nation — that Fox News clipped and aired Monday — shows Moore welcoming Trump with a handshake and talking to him briefly about rebuilding the collapsed Key Bridge in Baltimore. In the footage, Moore tells Trump that, with federal funding, Maryland could reopen the bridge during the Trump administration. ... Moore’s spokesman told The Post the exchange captured on video was the only time Moore and Trump met that day.
In other words, Trump made up the Moore conversation, and he presented fiction as fact to the public. In fact, the Republican has repeatedly shared the details of conversations that only occurred in his overactive imagination......
Now he’s boasting about imaginary conversations and pointing to unnamed sources who’ve labeled him “the president of Europe.”
As USA Today’s Rex Huppke summarized, after Trump twice suggested he was headed to Russia when he was actually going to Alaska, “That’s the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpa’s future.” Huppke similarly recently described the president as being “in obvious mental decline.”
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