These aren’t the answers you’re looking for
by Tom Sullivan
“I will be so good at [blank], your head will spin.” That’s pretty much Donald Trump’s answer to any question he doesn’t know. It didn’t work too well yesterday during a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt:
At one point, Hewitt asked Trump if he was familiar with Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the Quds Forces. Trump said he was but then appeared to mistake the Quds for the Kurds, a Middle Eastern ethnic group.
“The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by,” said Trump.
Hewitt corrected him: “No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Forces.”
A little tougher question than, “What newspapers do you read?” Trump had no clue. He called it a gotcha question, saying “I mean, you know, when you’re asking me about who’s running this, this this, that’s not, that is not, I will be so good at the military, your head will spin.” Donald will know what he needs to know when he needs to know it. Trust him. He’s a good negotiator. A great negotiator. The best negotiator.
Hewitt asked if Trump knew “the players without a scorecard,” players such as Hassan Nasrallah, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:
“The names you just mentioned, they probably won’t even be there in six months or a year,” he added.
Hassan Nasrallah has headed Hezbollah since 1992.
Hewitt pushed Trump on the question, asking him: “So the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas does not matter to you yet, but it will?”
The old, “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” bit wasn’t working with Hewitt, and Hewitt will co-moderate the next Republican debate. Then again, Trump’s supporters don’t seem to care what he doesn’t know. They’re having too much fun watching him make a mockery of a mockery.