Trump Compares Moves To Fund Special Olympics, Override North Korea Sanctions

US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference with Linda McMahon (out of frame), head of Small Business Administration, March 29, 2019 at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Nicholas ... US President Donald Trump speaks at a press conference with Linda McMahon (out of frame), head of Small Business Administration, March 29, 2019 at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump on Friday afternoon compared his decision to override the Education Department’s push to cut funding for the Special Olympics to his decision to nix sanctions on North Korea favored by the Treasury Department.

Trump made the bizarre comparison when asked if he was upset that the Treasury Department planned sanctions on North Korea that Trump then overruled.

“They had the right to do that. I just decided I would not let it happen,” Trump replied, before working in a mention of his decision to call for Special Olympics funding.

“In a certain way, it’s like the Special Olympics. For many years it hasn’t been approved, and then at some point it gets negotiated out in Congress. Well, I went out, and I said we’re going to have funding for the Special Olympics. So that is why I approved that,” Trump said.

It’s not clear if Trump was claiming that past presidents have not supported funding for the Special Olympics, or if he was referring to his administration’s push to cut funding to the group in its two previous budget proposals. (He was correct to point out that Congress has successfully funded the Special Olympics even when funding was initially opposed by the Trump administration.)

Either way, he did seem to acknowledge that his comparison was a weird one.

“So it is a little bit of a similar situation with different parties to put it mildly,” Trump said after comparing his two decisions.

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  1. Donald you live on a little bit different planet from the rest of us, to put it mildly.

  2. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    The delusions of a madman. Its sort of like comparing apples to hand grenades.

  3. Now if you’d only stay there, rather than mucking things up in TRW.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    It’s not clear if Trump was claiming that past presidents have not supported funding for the Special Olympics, or if he was referring to his administration’s push to cut funding to the group in its two previous budget proposals. (He was correct to point out that Congress has successfully funded the Special Olympics even when funding was initially opposed by the Trump administration.)

    I appreciate the effort, I really do. But don’t do this. There’s more meaning in white noise than in anything Trump says. He doesn’t even know what he means much of the time.

  5. BREAKING: Trump Opens Yap, Disjointed Gurgles Emerge, GOP Cheers Wildly."

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