President Donald Trump on Monday seemed to struggle to find the right word for the moment ― and the phrase he settled on struck many as odd.
Trump was livid with Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host who is now U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, over her decision to drop criminal charges against former Olympic athlete David Hearn. Although Hearn had been accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Pirro released a statement admitting that the damage was caused by a botched installation and not vandalism.
Trump threw a fit, saying Pirro “folded like an umbrella,” and insisted that he had evidence of vandalism. But he couldn’t quite explain that evidence.
“We have photographs, or tapes,” he said, making a circular gesture with his hands. After a pause, he pointed to the cameras recording him and added: “Like moving cameras, right?”
Trump presumably meant videos, which he claimed showed people slashing the pool’s line with “a box knife.”
No such evidence from Trump’s “moving cameras” has been released.
On X, the president’s critics were stunned by his inability to summon the right word: