Donald Trump looks to have been caught in a massive ‘lie’, as Maryland’s Governor responded with a blistering six-word remark.
There is no doubt that the US president speaks a lot, and that is only to the cameras he welcomes inside the Oval Office on a weekly basis.
On Monday (August 25), while signing a raft of new executive orders, Trump branded Baltimore, Maryland, as a ‘terrible death bed’ riddled with crime, a claim he appears to have made about several Democratic-led US cities.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has, naturally, taken offense to this depiction, saying in a speech that Trump should ‘visit our streets and not just talk about us from the Oval Office’.
Then Trump went on to imply that while Moore blasts him publicly, privately he has praised him ‘the greatest president’ of his lifetime.
Trump said: “He came over to me, hugged me, shook my hand and said, ‘Sir, you’re the greatest president of my lifetime.’
“I said, ‘It’s really nice of you to say that, I’d love for you to say it publicly, but I don’t think you can do that so it’s OK.’
“‘No sir, you’re doing a fantastic job, I wanted to just shake your hand.’”
The only problem is, Moore insists this conversation never occured.
Addressing the claims made by Trump, Carter Elliott IV, a senior communications adviser to Moore, commented: “Moore and the president met, but the governor did not say that.”
Moore said on WBAL Radio: “I’m a person who takes my integrity very seriously, and I spent the past six months before that election campaigning as to why I did not think that he should be the next president of the United States.
“So when I say that conversation never happened, that imaginary conversation never happened, I mean that conversation never happened.”
The governor simply said ‘lol’ in response to the claims on X, before issuing a six-word response to the POTUS.
“Keep telling yourself that, Mr. President,” he commented.
Trump chastised Moore on Monday, claiming he lacks the ‘what it takes’ to reduce crime in Maryland.
“Moore is doing a bad job, [Gavin] Newsom is doing a bad job. All of their potential candidates are doing a bad job,” Trump said.
While Moore has previously been mentioned as a potential Democratic presidential candidate for the 2028 election, the current vice president, JD Vance, is seemingly favored among Republicans.
Vance was asked directly by NBC if he sees Trump ‘passing the torch’ onto him come 2028.
The VP instantly laughed while a beaming smile remained on his face as he answered: “As you know, the president talks about everything. And if it’s in the news, the president and I have certainly discussed it.”
However, Vance added: “Before we talk about anything three-and-a-half years down the road, let’s take a break from politics, focus on governing the country and when we return to politics it’s gonna be to focus on those midterm elections.”
