A reporter for the Washington Post tried to make Trump look stupid this morning but in the end ended up with egg on his face.
Here’s what he tweeted:
Trump told the Finnish President Just now he enjoyed spending time with him at the NATO summit. Finland is not part of NATO. #awkward @jaketapper @camanpour
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 16, 2018
Notice all the retweets and likes!
But it turns out that Trump isn’t stupid, that in fact the Finnish president was at the NATO summit and participated in the dinner for the heads of state!
Niinistö was present at the Brussels summit and even participated in the NATO heads of state dinner.
— Matti Pesu (@PesuMatti) July 16, 2018
Then Rogin confirms it himself:
Finland is a member of NATO’s Partnership for Peace. But focusing on the strength of NATO is still an odd choice of things for Trump to focus on at his one public meeting with Finland’s head of state.
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 16, 2018
The Finnish President did attend the NATO summit in Brussels: https://t.co/Zl0oqIsRsZ
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) July 16, 2018
I guarantee you if this had been 2010, Rogin would have checked his facts before tweeting something like this about Obama. Because Obama almost always got the benefit of the doubt from the leftist press. But not Trump…