Trump Boasts About Tomahawks And Critics See A Problem | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump made sweeping claims on Friday in regards to the United States’ weapons capabilities, just for customers on social media to shortly level out how these claims drastically differ from feedback he made days earlier.

“Look, nobody has the technology or the weapons that we have, and the Patriots are an example of it,” Trump informed Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in discussing the missiles on the U.S. navy’s disposal. “We have the Tomahawks, we have the Patriots, we have stuff that nobody’s ever been able to produce, and they can’t produce it like us.”

This counters Trump’s suggestion earlier this week that Iran had in some way obtained the American-made Tomahawk missiles and was probably accountable for the Tomahawk strike on an Iranian ladies’ college throughout the first days of the conflict. The strike killed at the least 175 individuals, most of them younger ladies.

“I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is used by, you know, is sold and used by other countries,” Trump mentioned on Monday.

“Whether it’s Iran, who also has some Tomahawks, they wish they had more, but whether it’s Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk is very generic. It’s sold to other countries, but that’s being investigated right now,” he continued.

Trump had pinned the destruction of the ladies’ college on Iran earlier within the month.

“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Trump mentioned on March 7 when requested in regards to the strike. “We think it was done by Iran, because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.”

There isn’t any proof supporting Trump’s declare that Iran had obtained a Tomahawk missile or carried out the strike on the ladies’ college.

Users on X jumped on the inconsistencies.

“I’m old enough to remember when Trump claimed that the Iranians had Tomahawks in an attempt to blame the Iranians for the girls’ school he bombed,” person Polly Sigh wrote on X.

“But when he was asked about the bombing of the girls’ school, he said Iran had tomahawks,” MeidasTouch Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski wrote.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday {that a} preliminary navy investigation discovered the U.S. was accountable for the strike on the ladies’ college. When requested on Wednesday in regards to the report and whether or not the U.S. would take duty for the strike, Trump responded: “I don’t know about it.”