Trump Went Golfing Right After Bombing Afghanistan And 20 Other Facts You Need To Know Immediately
From reversing his stance on NATO, to mixing up Iraq and Syria, here’s everything Trump did this week.
April 14, 2017
1. Confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
2. Settled another lawsuit.
This time with chef José Andrés, who Trump sued after he pulled out of a lease to open a restaurant in the D.C.–based Trump International Hotel.
3. Pissed off the town of Palm Beach so much they're considering making Mar-A-Lago its own tax district.
4. Received praise from some media outlets for bombing Syria.
5. Which he reportedly was persuaded to do by his daughter Ivanka and not military officials.
6. Talked to President Xi about North Korea.
7. Where he's "sending an armada."
8. Misrepresented the history of America's relationship with Russia.
He said U.S.-Russia relations are at an "all-time low," at a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
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9. And called NATO "no longer obsolete," despite saying it was, numerous times, during his campaign.
10. Described eating chocolate cake while ordering missile strikes, which he thought he carried out in Iraq instead of Syria.
11. Surreptitiously approved a bill allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood.
12. Chose a man with no military experience to head the draft agency.
Senator Don Benton of Washington was sworn in as head of the Selective Service System on Thursday.
13. Learned at least 1,782 civilians were killed in airstrikes on Syria and Iraq in March alone.
That's "more reported civilian casualties in Syria and Iraq than Russia was responsible for in Syria," VICE reports. But he praised "his" military as the "greatest" in the world anyway.
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