OOF: Trump's 'Great' New Football Story Contains A Fumble For The Ages
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The president's anecdote about Tommy Tuberville and Patrick Mahomes gets a fact-check on social media.
Critics are calling foul on President Donald Trump for an easily debunked claim about Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who will make his fifth Super Bowl appearance this weekend.
“And Tommy Tuberville, a great coach,” Trump said on Wednesday as he signed an executive order aimed at blocking trans student-athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.
Trump continued:
“You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach. And I said, ‘How good was he?’ He said, ‘You don’t want to know how good. He made me into a great coach.’ He’s a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was very good. He’s a good guy, too.”
Tuberville once coached at Texas Tech, where Mahomes played before entering the NFL.
The president's outrageous idea for Gaza set off a red alert for intel expert Marc Polymeropoulos on "Morning Joe."
The CNN host said it all with her face in a debate over the president’s plan for Gaza.
But "it doesn’t mean that they don’t have the worst and most malicious intentions," warned the MSNBC anchor.
The president called for the U.S. to take “ownership” in redeveloping the war-torn territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Critics argued it sure sounds like something the president has previously railed against.
The president drew criticism for his response during a press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Desi Lydic also dared the president to "bring it on."
The Trump administration is placing U.S. Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential.
Fountains from a vent of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island grew to more than 250 feet high Monday night.
Italian officials said that the president's eldest son killed an incredibly rare, protected duck without the proper hunting permits.
In the meantime, he blocked legislation that would have provided fentanyl-detecting machines at the border and pardoned a convicted drug trafficker.
A threat on Trump’s life from Iran prompted additional security in the days before a July campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The former "Cheers" star told the New York Post his estrangement began when he was "going through a lot of self-doubt; self-loathing,” and "drinking a lot."