The disagreement between Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) and President Donald Trump continued Monday after the president aired “an imaginary conversation” between the pair.
Their feud took a weird flip after Trump claimed from the Oval Workplace Monday that Moore informed Trump he’s “the greatest president of my lifetime” throughout a quick assembly on the Military-Navy recreation in December.
Moore responded on X, previously Twitter, by merely writing “lol” above a clip of Trump making the allegation.
“Keep telling yourself that, Mr. President,” he added.
It comes amid a dayslong back-and-forth that adopted Trump threatening to increase his crime crackdown past Washington, D.C., and ship troopers to different U.S. cities, together with Baltimore.
In a speech final week, Moore recommended the president go to Maryland’s greatest metropolis and “walk our streets and not just talk about us from the Oval Office,” as he touted slicing the violent crime price and lowering the variety of vacant properties all through the town.
“Donald Trump, if you are not willing to walk our communities, keep our name out of your mouth,” Moore mentioned Thursday.
Moore’s feedback appeared to catch Trump’s consideration, prompting the president over the weekend to query the previous U.S. Military officer’s navy service.
“Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?” Trump wrote on his Reality Social web site on Sunday.
In a single follow-up, Moore jabbed at “President Bone Spurs,” a reference to a disputed prognosis the president used to keep away from navy service through the Vietnam Conflict.
On Monday, Trump returned to his new nemesis throughout wide-ranging feedback to reporters as he signed govt orders from the White Home.
The president mentioned he felt Moore’s invitation to go to Baltimore was “derogatory,” earlier than starting his disputed declare.
“I met him at the Army-Navy game,” Trump mentioned. “They said, ‘Oh, there’s Governor Moore. He’d love to see you.’ He came over to me, hugged me, shook my hand. You were there [nodding toward unidentified person]. He said, ‘Sir, you’re the greatest president of my lifetime.’ I said, ‘It’s really nice that you say that. I’d love you to say it publicly, but I don’t think you can do that.’”
He added: “And then every time I see him on television, he’s knocking the hell out of me. But that’s all right, it’s called politics.”
Footage of Trump and Moore assembly on the recreation, from on an episode of Fox Nation’s “The Art of the Surge” and performed by Fox Information on Monday, suggests a friendliness between the pair. However the Maryland politician doesn’t state the phrases the president claims.
Moore later appeared on WBAL Radio and referred to as Trump’s declare a “distraction” from the spiraling price of residing and his threats to chop spending regionally.
“I’m a person who takes my integrity very seriously,” Moore mentioned. “And I spent the last six months before the election campaigning as to why I did not think he should be the next president of the United States. So when I say that that conversation never happened … that imaginary conversation never happened … I mean, that conversation never happened.”
