In an epic demonstration, conservative attorney George Conway schooled President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning for throwing a fit over a CNN segment questioning his knowledge of where Ukraine is located by presenting all of Trump’s geography fails.
It all started when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo berated an NPR reporter for daring to ask him questions about Ukraine and challenged her to find Ukraine on a map. Mary Louise Kelly, who has a Master’s degree in European Studies and is a longtime national security reporter, easily found it on the blank map Pompeo arrogantly brought out. Humiliated, Pompeo has been attacking Kelly and NPR ever since, and Trump himself got involved by threatening to cut NPR funding.
On Monday night, GOP strategist Rick Wilson took aim at Trump by saying he couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if it had the letter “U” next to a picture of a crane on it, causing CNN anchor Don Lemon to laugh uncontrollably.
Of course, Trump couldn’t just take a joke and let it go, lashing out instead.
Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!). https://t.co/iQXCc7lvCt
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2020
But that was a massive mistake that resulted in Kellyanne Conway’s husband hilariously listing all of Trump’s geography fails, and there are a lot of them.
A thread for those who think @realDonaldTrump could find Ukraine on a marked map:
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump thinks Belgium is a city, albeit a pretty one. https://t.co/0CQWpckgk7
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump seems to think Paris is in Germany. (It kind of was for a few years in the 1940s, I guess.) https://t.co/RF5e3Rb1VO
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump thinks there are countries on this planet called “Nipple” and “Button.” (Do NOT, under any circumstances, ask him to point them out. PLEASE.)https://t.co/1rRD1SOw0C
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
Also, @realDonaldTrump didn’t understand that when it’s the afternoon in Washington, it’s the middle of the night in Tokyo. https://t.co/1rRD1SOw0C
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
In a meeting with leaders from the *Baltic* states, @realDonaldTrump thought he was talking to people from the *Balkans*. (No, seriously. This created quite a stir in diplomatic circles.)https://t.co/F5DzrV2E7y
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
I have to say that really is my personal favorite. @realDonaldTrump is there trashing the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia for the breakup Yugoslavia, and they’re like, WTF. And then it dons on them—Balkans, Baltics … buffoon.https://t.co/ecZ4a9qOx1
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
Don’t forget that beautiful border wall @realDonaldTrump is building between Colorado and Mexico. https://t.co/xfFrhFScg9
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
Oh, wait. A small correction. @realDonaldTrump thought Nipple and Button were in India, not separate countries. My bad—we all make mistakes. Sorry. https://t.co/TfvMJ05n9m
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump once bombed Syria but thought he bombed Iraq. https://t.co/Njl96SgjNL
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump once got a call from the president of *South* Korea, but then told hundreds of journalists that he’d gotten a call from the leader of *North* Korea. https://t.co/qtGtTS2WSf
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
“After I had won, everybody was calling me from all over the world. I never knew we had so many countries.”
— @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/b7n5Q3hJZF— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump once told the prime minister of India, “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.” (India has a 2,520-mile border with China.)https://t.co/U5ncPjFbbp
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump has to be told in 2018 that Ireland isn’t part of the U.K. ….https://t.co/mQtXIyShb6
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
… yet made the mistake again in 2019. https://t.co/XsRCDJlxbe
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
And just a few days ago, @realDonaldTrump earned global mockery when met with the president of *Iraqi* Kurdistan but thought he was taking to someone from *Syria*. https://t.co/tJjHWhZ3vk
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
When Gordon Sondland called @realDonaldTrump on July 26 and said he was in Kyiv, Trump had to ask whether Sondland was in Ukraine, according to the testimony of embassy staffer David Holmes. https://t.co/IXRiivo82z pic.twitter.com/RGkFTYCZ15
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 28, 2020
We clearly have a president who has little, if any, knowledge of geography. And that’s embarrassing because leaders should have a basic understanding of world geography. It may not seem important, but it’s actually crucial as part of the job, especially when it comes to national security and diplomacy. Trump should be so ashamed that he starts studying a map of the world. He can start by watching this short tutorial for kids.
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