Alarm at Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Beirut blast was an 'attack'

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Lebanese officials reportedly seek urgent clarification of off-the-cuff remarks not backed by US government officials

Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that the massive explosion in Beirut was a bomb attack has revived fears of the president’s potential to foment international crises.“I’ve met with some of our great generals and they just seem to feel that this was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event,” the president told reporters. “It was a bomb of some kind.”

 

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Looking a bit naive and making his generals look stupid

He's mad

Terrorist HAMAS HME IED factory blows up, none of the 241 victims of the 83 bombing are shedding a tear

Dear World, Please disregard anything that the old orange fool says. He is mentally ill. We apologize for everything. Sincerely, America

of course it is an attack

Anyone that hears that a pile of fertilizer or fireworks can create a 3.3 magnitude earthquake and cause an explosion that could be felt 150 miles away and create a shock wave that flattens a city, and can’t be at least a lil skeptic, then I feel bad for you.

The Trump White House: Where facts go to die.

Problem is there is very little process in his brain between a trigger and saying something.

THE_47th

Or trump told the truth by accident?

US intelligence credibility tanks with DJT at the helm.

He didn't make a claim. He said his advisor's think it was an attack. However, you did make a claim in that headline...a false one. I hope you're sued and personally prosecuted for defamy.

Alarm the Donald is talking out of his ass again...ALARM

The trouble is, that view is now out there and the usual suspects will believe it. If Trump were a clever man this could be perceived as clever. As it is, he is a very dangerous idiot.

Religion of Peace Strikes Again!

Maybe he knew something that we all don't know.

He also says that Covid is “under control” and that Fox is a news channel.

Is anyone alarmed at anything he says anymore?

Trump wants conflict-it’s where he thrives.

Putin must be laughing so hard.

President Trump for sure knows more than the guardian!

Maybe Don showed his hand about what he knows? After all it was cargo from an 'abandoned' Russian vessel. PLUS Trump offered condolences - which is weird. Just a thought...

It was an attack But you will not apologize or retract

Dump just makes shit up. Ignore him, he's an established idjit.

he just let it slip, it’s obvious something nefarious happening

The other way isn’t substantiated either 😊

trump just meant that any news that's not about him, like John Lewis' funeral, is an attack on him.

Maybe Don showed his hand about what he knows? After all it was a Russian vessel that was abandoned. PLUS Trump offered condolences - which is weird. Just a thought...

Trump has a batshit theory about everything

Maybe he knows something FakeNews hasn't invented yet...

Give Trump bashing a break. He is a good president and well liked

Once again United States feels the burden of the Donald talking out of his ass again hey to all our allies sorry just the Donald talking out of his ass again... kind of like that Trump virus press conference that he has talkin about the T45 he's always talkin lies lies lies lies

No thing gets substantiated. No thing is functioning. Everyone is frozen in a tableau until either a) the election or b) Some atrocity occurs that can't be ignored.

Maybe he knows something from Mossad ?

In his own words: 'you can't do that'

Most everything Trump says is a lie.... why be alarmed by his latest nonsense?

Wait, so how come the *intelligent* people--sorry, I meant the Intelligence people (and Defense officials!)--have so far DISAGREED with Trump? I mean everyone knows only terrorists live in the Middle East, right?! 😲 (Anything's possible, guys, but let's WAIT and find out!)

Why would he say so? Did he order an attack?

Trump is a stable moron. And the history books will simply enforce that fact.

Why are you so quick to accept it as an accident? Be a journalist and ask questions.

Trump always calls media (Except Fox of course) fake news and the enemy of people. Beirut's blast is a clear true case of Trump himself being the fake news.

There’s plenty of similarly wild claims on Arabic twitter right now.

Has it been disproved? Read what the experts are reporting, it was indeed a bomb or those bomb making materials, something about the colors

Why don't we wait until the investigations are concluded ... Cause 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate is a terrorists wet dream IED.... Yeah maybe storage failure caused it to explode.... But it needed a detonation...?

He just asked Pompeo...Pompeo grinned and gave him a dumb answer on purpose!

Of course it was an attack... WTF

He is mentally and intellectually unstable. He needs to be removed from office before he causes Armageddon

Anything to get attention.

Biden will fix it. He’s so on the ball-

Twitter should have a 'money where your mouth is' feature, I'll put a pound on this being a blast

Trump exists in a world of lies -- some of his own making, many perpetrated by his handlers to satisfy his pathologies. Don't take what he says seriously or place any credibility in his statements. No reasonable does.

This is Trump adding bullshit to fertilizer

Didn’t he say “it looked like and attack” ?

Did you not get the memo, or are you really just so out of touch with reality?

It's obviously A Total Coincidence that he & presumably OANN which seems to be his primary 'news' source are repeating the exact same conspiracy theories as RT. 🙄

rodolfoasar ahora entiendo de dónde saco Carlos su Twitt de invasión, Donny Dum Dum es su fuente verificada 🙄🤡 y yo que pensé que estaba haciendo audiciones para director de noticias falsas del Kremlin. De locos 🙃😖

Go quick help them like Putin has already sent a plane, with staff and provisions

It was literally unknown at the time he said it, there was many speculations.

Maybe he knows something the rest of us do not...

The issue is that an election should not be what takes him out of the White House but a panel of doctors. But how to tell the population the person you voted for is mentally diminished?

Trump is the most incompetent President in American history!

Surprised?

Lot of it about

Unhinged.

Classified information again? Isn't discussing highly classified intelligence a crime

he said; looks like ... and it was yesterday

Does ammonium nitrate combust spontaneously?! ... just asking!

Just one more fact that proves he’s incompetent.

It was the Tufks what ✅ it - honestly you should give over a page a day in what Ttumps says and what the truth is

He cannot help himself. Making sh.t up is just normal behaviour for him, he does it whether it’s to his advantage or not. He’s psychologically damaged in so many ways. It’d actually be doing him a favour to remove him from office, he clearly can’t cope.

Well, the fact that 'the initial cause of the fire is still unclear' does leave room for concern... BeirutBlast Beirut

Really? Does anyone really get alarmed at anything this guy says anymore? A pathological liar and moron? Most just ignore him and look for real sources of information.....

If someone intentionally ignited the blast: it was an attack. i.e. the bomb was already there.

Donald Trump? Making an unsubstantiated claim? Surely not!

Ignore him. And do not post photographs when sharing news items. This goes for all dictators.

No need for alarm he makes these all day every day - no one takes him seriously anymore - for god sake TrumpIsALaughingStock trended no 1 in America for two days - thank you my TED talk

Who actually knows Given the political instability of the area, it is an easy thought.

Maybe he did it 🤷🏾‍♂️

Attention world: ignore everything he says.

Time to push him to say his generals were lying.

uhm Lebanon's own top general said it

Cue a million conspiracy theories

Did he just admit he had info that it was an attack? Wow!

He’s not well - can’t someone do something?

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