Trump Rants About Media Spending ‘All Night’ On Ida Instead Of His ‘Great’ Taliban Deal – By Mary Papenfuss (Huffpost) / Aug 30 2021
“The level of stupidity — and we had a great deal,” Trump boasted in his usual mangled syntax.
Former President Donald Trump called in to a conservative radio show Monday to gripe about the media spending “all night long” on Sunday covering the deadly and massively destructive Hurricane Ida instead of his “great agreement” with the Taliban.
Trump’s ill-fated agreement, signed by his administration in February 2020, promised that the U.S. would get out of Afghanistan by this May 1, which didn’t happen. U.S. troops finally withdrew on Monday after 20 years of war.
“Afghanistan is not even something that can be discussed in a rational way,” Trump told host Todd Starnes. “The level of stupidity — and we had a great agreement,” he added.
Several political observers and international experts have blamed Trump’s agreement for emboldening the Taliban and laying the groundwork for the mayhem of the U.S. military exit under Trump’s successor, President Joe Biden, this month.
