Ben Rhodes
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You guys are fine.
I'm going to talk about the media here for a second.
Because, you know, he says these things.
Nobody is spending 5%.
That is a fiction.
It's a made-up thing.
They all promise to do it sometime in the future.
They're not spending 5% of their GDP on defense.
It's not something happening in the real world.
He has not ended eight wars.
We've covered that.
He's not ended any of them.
Last I checked.
But he's allowed to believe...
this cartoon because he has his own state media, but also because the actual media just repeats these fictions.
This man, the emperor has no clothes.
And unless collectively,
foreign leaders, congressional leaders in this country, media, citizens, and by the way, it's citizens who are doing it in Minneapolis, start to just call complete bullshit on this guy.
Like, he's going to drive this entire world off a cliff.