White House all at sea over claims flotilla was heading to North Korea
On 11 April, the defence secretary, James Mattis, said the Vinson was “on her way up” to the peninsula.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said “when you a see a carrier group steaming into an area like that [it] is clearly a huge deterrence“.
The following day, Donald Trump said:
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A US aircraft carrier-led flotilla that the White House said last week was “steaming” towards North Korea to increase pressure on Pyongyang was actually thousands of miles away heading in the opposite direction.
The USS Carl Vinson and three other ships were heading towards North Korea but only after a string of misleading statements about their original course put out last week from the Trump administration.
In Washington, officials are facing questions and criticism over the location and original course of the Vinson flotilla, after it was photographed 3,500 miles away from North Korea, sailing south in the Sunda Strait at a time officials said it was sailing north.
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Armada, very powerful.
At some point only 20% of the rubes won’t tire of Trump’s juvenile assessments of himself and others.
His “yuuge, very beautiful, first class, wall” is heading south as well.
Adults, other than carney barkers and used car salesmen and possibly Kim Jong-un (assuming he speaks at all) or maybe QVC shills, don’t speak like this.
The word “armada” is practically synonymous with the Spanish war fleet that was defeated by the British in 1588 and later wrecked by storms while returning home. IMO, it’s a poor choice of words for many reasons. At least people will get a history lesson when they google the word.
Dutch children loved the history lesson about the Spanish armada….
Oops … our forefathers allied with the British monarchs?? For just a short while …
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