Trump Makes Sweeping Claim About US Weapons And Critics Instantly Spot A Problem

President Donald Trump made sweeping claims on Friday about the United States’ weapons capabilities, only for users on social media to quickly point out how those claims drastically differ from comments he made days earlier. 

“Look, nobody has the technology or the weapons that we have, and the Patriots are an example of it,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in discussing the missiles at the US military’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 somehow obtained the American-made Tomahawk missiles and was possibly responsible for the Tomahawk strike on an Iranian girls’ school during the first days of the war. The strike killed at least 175 people, most of them young girls. 

“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 said 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 girls’ school on Iran earlier in the month.

“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Trump said on March 7 when asked about 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 is no evidence supporting Trump’s claim that Iran had obtained a Tomahawk missile or carried out the strike on the girls’ school. 

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,” user 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 military investigation found the US was responsible for the strike on the girls’ school. When asked on Wednesday about the report and whether the US would take responsibility for the strike, Trump responded: “I don’t know about it.”