President Donald Trump is once again bragging about winning an award. The problem is that the so-called “Bay of Pigs Award” doesn’t actually exist.
Down in the polls against Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Trump is desperately pandering to the Latino community, which he has terrorized over the years using ICE as his own personal Gestapo to persecute them.
But now he needs them, especially in Florida where he holds a slim lead.
So, in a tweet on Sunday, Trump declared that Latinos can only trust him because Cuban-Americans gave him the “Bay of Pigs Award”. Seriously.
Sleepy Joe Biden has spent 47 years in politics being terrible to Hispanics. Now he is relying on Castro lover Bernie Sanders to help him out. That won’t work! Remember, Miami Cubans gave me the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I have done for our great Cuban Population!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2020
This is a lie because such an award does not exist as CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale pointed out.
For those confused by Trump’s claim he got the “highly honored Bay of Pigs Award”:
He got an endorsement in 2016 from the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. It’s not an award. He has a long history of turning endorsements and other non-awards into awards.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2020
The thing is that it was, according to local news coverage, an unprecedented endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans. So Trump could accurately boast about it. But he often seems to prefer wrongness to even impressive-sounding correctness – no truth too good not to embellish.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2020
The Bay of Pigs was a failed landing operation in Cuba to liberate the population from the authoritarian rule of Fidel Castro in 1961. It was an embarrassing fiasco for the United States, just like Trump is now.
Trump’s campaign soon released a photo supposedly showing Trump receiving the alleged “award,” but Dale debunked that as well.
The Trump campaign says the proof that Trump got the (nonexistent) Bay of Pigs Award is that, when he spoke to the Bay of Pigs vets’ association upon accepting their endorsement, they gave him a painting of their brigade shield. https://t.co/TuPQFQ1ylW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2020
Twitter users mocked Trump and contradicted his claims that all Cuban-Americans support him and that he’s somehow been good for Latinos.
fun fact: there is no “Bay of Pigs Award.” try googling it
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 13, 2020
You’re the worst. pic.twitter.com/a1F6qIbrqj
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) September 13, 2020
Some of us Cuban Americans know better!!! This was in Miami yesterday! @JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/bj4JEdaZwp
— Lula Rodriguez (@Lananalula) September 13, 2020
“The Bay of Pigs Award” LOL!
Just one small thing about this “award” – it doesn’t exist. But if it did, it would be appropriate to give it to Trump, because the Bay of Pigs invasion was a monumental failure and foreign policy disaster.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2020
They just love ya😁 pic.twitter.com/D3t06EKksS
— Janet Kay🌴🦎🍹 (@tinyboo49) September 13, 2020
REMINDER:
1. You called Mexicans rapists and criminals
2. You wanted to shoot people at the border
3. You put BABIES IN CAGES
4. You separated children from mothers
5. You were pissed at Kirstjen Nielsen because the policies were NOT HARSH ENOUGHYOU ARE A MONSTER.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 13, 2020
It should also be pointed out that Trump has ignored the suffering of Puerto Rico and treats the island of American citizens there like sh*t.
Trump does not deserve any awards. Unless, of course, there’s an award for lying and racism. He’d win that by a landslide.
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