Trump Is Falsely Claiming That Obama Said He Wanted To Start ‘A Big War’ With North Korea

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President Donald Trump made a shocking and bold claim during a spontaneous press conference at the White House Rose Garden on Friday. After signing his fake non-emergency national emergency that’s upsetting even Ann Coulter, Trump took questions from reporters, including one who asked about the progress in the denuclearization of North Korea.

“A lot’s been accomplished, we’re talking to them, we’re dealing with them. When I came into office, I met right there in the Oval Office with President Obama,” Trump responded. “And I sat in those beautiful chairs and we talked, it was supposed to be 15 minutes as you know it ended up being many times longer than that.”

“And I said ‘What’s the biggest problem?'” he continued. “He said, ‘By far, North Korea.’ And I don’t want to speak for him, but I believe he would have gone to war with North Korea. I think he was ready to go to war, in fact he told me that he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea.”

Among other things, Trump does not seem to understand the meaning of “not speaking for somebody,” but that’s neither here nor there. Toronto star reporter Daniel Dale stated in a tweet that according to the people around Obama at the time, there is “zero evidence this is true.”

Hardly surprising given the source, but others were likewise quick to call Trump on his fiction.

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1096445732536619009

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1096470566540849152

In other words: this is fine. Everything is fine.