The president told a room full of Israelis that he "just got back from the Middle East":

[iluvtennis]

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Seriously?? An idiot is in our WH

[Xipe Totec]

1. Did he fly back? Are his arms tired? nt

[WinkyDink]

9. He is still IN the Middle East!

[Xipe Totec]

11. Yes. I know. Obviously, Israel is in the Middle East.

I would think that references to flying with his own arms would be a clue, that this was an attempt at humor.

[gratuitous]

2. Really, Mr. President?

This video clip is gonna get a workout:

[louis-t]

3. Dolt.

[ProudLib72]

4. Common mistake

He's thinking the Levant is completely separate from the Middle East.

[LeftInTX]

5. Really??

Maybe he "feels' this way this because Israel is fairly westernized.
But it is completely in the ME.

[ProudLib72]

6. Nah, not really

No one really uses the term "Levant" besides academics. I was being sarcastic.

[WinkyDink]

10. 1.) He doesn't know from "Levant": 2.) I doubt this is a common mistake! Do people think Israel is

in EUROPE?!

Where ELSE would it be, but in the ME, bordered on 3 sides by, you know, Middle-Eastern countries?!

[ProudLib72]

12. Read my last post

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]

15. My word of the day. Thanks.

[ProudLib72]

17. I was half hoping it would catch on with the left

If we used it while he was in Israel, it would confuse the hell out of the right wingers

[Cirque du So-What]

16. Levant?

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]

19. No. Trump just looked at everyone's skin color and clothing and knew it wasn't the Middle East.

The Middle East is all those radical Muslims dressing funny, don't you know.

[sarcasmo]

7. Dolt45 living up to the name.

[Angry Dragon]

8. I remember when Bush got beaten up by a pretzel

Trump gets beaten up by words coming out of his ass(mouth)

[lpbk2713]

13. Duhhh

"Great place. Just great. I mean it sincerely."

[TeamPooka]

14. What a fucking idiot.

[L. Coyote]

18. Then he said, "It sure is nice to be in the West East again." LOL. He the added,

"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."

[iluvtennis]

20. LMBO nt

[GeoWilliam750]

21. We really need a "Not Satire" icon. Sometimes it is very hard to tell.

[Initech]

22. The Isreali rep is looking at Trump like "This guy thinks he's a world leader!"