President Donald Trump made sweeping claims on Friday about the US’ weapons capabilities, just for customers on social media to rapidly level out how these claims drastically differ from feedback he made days earlier.
“Look, no one has the know-how or the weapons that we now have, and the Patriots are an instance of it,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in discussing the missiles on the U.S. navy’s disposal. “We now have the Tomahawks, we now have the Patriots, we now have stuff that no one’s ever been capable of produce, and so they can’t produce it like us.”
This counters Trump’s suggestion earlier this week that Iran had one way or the other obtained the American-made Tomahawk missiles and was possibly responsible for the Tomahawk strike on an Iranian girls’ college throughout the first days of the warfare. The strike killed at least 175 people, most of them younger ladies.
“I’ll say that the Tomahawk, which is among the strongest weapons round, is utilized by, , is offered and utilized by different international locations,” Trump said on Monday.
“Whether or not it’s Iran, who additionally has some Tomahawks, they need that they had extra, however whether or not it’s Iran or any individual else, the truth that a Tomahawk could be very generic. It’s offered to different international locations, however that’s being investigated proper now,” he continued.
Trump had pinned the destruction of the ladies’ college on Iran earlier within the month.
“In my view, primarily based on what I’ve seen, that was executed by Iran,” Trump said on March 7 when requested concerning the strike. “We predict it was executed by Iran, as a result of they’re very inaccurate, as , with their munitions. They don’t have any accuracy by any means. It was executed by Iran.”
There is no evidence supporting Trump’s claim that Iran had obtained a Tomahawk missile or carried out the strike on the ladies’ college.
Customers on X jumped on the inconsistencies.
“I’m sufficiently old to recollect when Trump claimed that the Iranians had Tomahawks in an try to blame the Iranians for the ladies’ college he bombed,” user Polly Sigh wrote on X.
“However when he was requested concerning the bombing of the ladies’ college, he stated Iran had tomahawks,” MeidasTouch Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski wrote.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday {that a} preliminary navy investigation discovered the U.S. was accountable for the strike on the ladies’ college. When requested on Wednesday concerning the report and whether or not the U.S. would take accountability for the strike, Trump responded: “I don’t learn about it.”
