Post by the Scribe on Aug 27, 2021 20:32:38 GMT
Trump Mocked For Repeatedly Botching Name Of ISIS Offshoot In Fox News Ramble
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mocked-repeatedly-botching-name-061057017.html
Ed Mazza
Thu, August 26, 2021, 11:10 PM
Donald Trump is still struggling with names.
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump
In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, the former president claimed he “knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate” but that a “new ISIS” has formed: “ISIS-X.”
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/sean-hannity
The group operating in Afghanistan, which claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadly attack in Kabul, is actually ISIS-K, which stands for Islamic State Khorasan.
www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031349674/isis-k-taliban-who-what-you-need-to-know
www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-afghanistan-warns-attack-kabul-airport_n_612771f5e4b0f562f3dae8af
www.huffpost.com/entry/isis-k-terror-group-afghanistan_n_6127ab23e4b02be25b594119
www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031349674/isis-k-taliban-who-what-you-need-to-know
Khorasan is a historical term for Afghanistan and the surrounding region.
Trump eventually got the name right.
As is his tendency, however, he didn’t admit he botched it, only that he was predicting the future.
“They’ll have an ISIS-X pretty soon, which is gonna be worse than ISIS-K,” he told Hannity.
His critics fired back:
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mocked-repeatedly-botching-name-061057017.html
Ed Mazza
Thu, August 26, 2021, 11:10 PM
Donald Trump is still struggling with names.
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump
In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, the former president claimed he “knocked out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate” but that a “new ISIS” has formed: “ISIS-X.”
www.huffpost.com/news/topic/sean-hannity
The group operating in Afghanistan, which claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadly attack in Kabul, is actually ISIS-K, which stands for Islamic State Khorasan.
www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031349674/isis-k-taliban-who-what-you-need-to-know
www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-afghanistan-warns-attack-kabul-airport_n_612771f5e4b0f562f3dae8af
www.huffpost.com/entry/isis-k-terror-group-afghanistan_n_6127ab23e4b02be25b594119
www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031349674/isis-k-taliban-who-what-you-need-to-know
Khorasan is a historical term for Afghanistan and the surrounding region.
Trump eventually got the name right.
As is his tendency, however, he didn’t admit he botched it, only that he was predicting the future.
“They’ll have an ISIS-X pretty soon, which is gonna be worse than ISIS-K,” he told Hannity.
His critics fired back:
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.