Donald Trump praises imaginary country during speech. It doesn’t go over well.

| 5:17 pm EDT September 20, 2017
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Donald Trump spoke with African leaders during a lunch today, because that’s what you do if you’re pretending to be President of the United States. Considering how it went, Trump probably should have tried harder to pretend he wanted to be there. He ended up praising an African country that simply does not exist. It didn’t exactly go over well.

During Trump’s speech, which he was clearly reading from a teleprompter, he said “Nambia’s health system is increasingly self sufficient.” The trouble: there is no such thing as Nambia. There’s a Namibia. There’s a Zambia. But there’s no Nambia. We know that Trump can’t read, write, or spell. We know he’s suffering from worsening cognitive problems as well. However, this points to something potentially even worse, when you consider the series of errors it would have taken for this to happen.

If the teleprompter really did say “Nambia” then it would mean someone on Trump’s team wrote it that way, and didn’t even catch the fact that spellchecker and autocorrect start screaming at that made-up word. From there, no one else on the team would have bothered to look over the speech before it was given, or at least no one with a basic knowledge of world geography. If it didn’t say “Nambia” on the teleprompter, then it means Trump either can’t read or can’t see. Worse, it means that he didn’t even rehearse this speech before he gave it, or else his advisers would have caught the fact that he was saying something different than what was on the teleprompter. Watch Trump praise “Nambia” in the video below (link):

Suffice it to say the incident didn’t go over well. Julius Goat tweeted that “By tomorrow, Kellyanne Conway will insist “Nambia” is real. By November it will be in Texas social studies textbooks.” Parker Molloy quipped “The Chronicles of Nambia: The Liar, The Witch, and the War-drone.” Broderick Greer hit Trump with “Covfefe is the unofficial beverage of Nambia.”

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