'We have Bagram in Alaska,' Trump boasts, confusing Afghanistan and ANWR
A fresh reminder that former President Donald Trump does not know the name of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and that he continues to lie about the oil prospects of the coastal plain.
"We have Bagram in Alaska,” Trump said in a campaign event in Michigan, confusing ANWR with an airfield in Afghanistan.
“They say it might be as big, might be bigger than, all of Saudi Arabia. I got it approved. Ronald Reagan couldn't do it. Nobody could do it. I got it done,” said Trump.
“In their first week they terminated it,” Trump said, while host Sarah Huckabee Sanders nodded in approval.
Trump has been lying about ANWR and its oil potential for six years. He has also been lying about the fossil fuel reserves of the United States and lying that oil production would
increase fourfold if he had not had the 2020 election stolen from him.
No one believes that the coastal plain of the refuge contains more undiscovered oil than exists in Saudi Arabia. No one believes that the United States has the largest oil reserves in the world. And he is lying about the results of the 2020 election.
Here is the Trump appearance on C-SPAN. His gibberish about energy begins at the 24-minute mark.
"We were energy independent, we were soon going to be energy dominant, and we would've been now having so much money coming out of the energy. We just have the best.”
When Trump appeared to realize he was wrong about Bagram being in Alaska, he tried to dance around his mistake without admitting he was wrong.
“Check that one out. Bagram. Check that one out. ANW . . . it’s, it’s . . . no, think about this,” Trump said.
“Between Bagram, between . . . you go to ANWR . . . You you take a look at the kind of things that we’ve given up. We should be—we should have that air base. We should have that oil. We should have . . . We would have had a whole different country. But to give up ANWR. To give up uh the the biggest air base, military air base in the world. And they left it in the dark of night with the lights on. And they did leave the dogs behind, ” the genius said.
“But we would have been. We would have been. We would have been a much different country right now,” he said. “But we’re gonna get it back, I promise you we’re gonna get it back.”
Trump said you would have $25 a gallon gasoline under the Biden administration, but Biden went back to Trump policies to increase oil production. He claimed he wants to cut energy prices by 50 percent in six months.
“What they don’t say is though, I would have been producing four times as much and I took us from third into first place by a lot. But we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country in the world, including Saudi Arabia, including Russia,” said Trump.
“And we would have had. We would have had. We would have had. We would have been so dominant in energy. We would’ve. You know we were uh. We were. We didn’t need any energy from anybody we didn’t have to protect any other countries in order to get their oil, which we've done for many years in the Middle East. We were energy independent. Sounds so beautiful to say it. We’re energy independent. We were soon going to be energy dominant.”
“And we would have been now having so much money coming out of the energy. We just have the best. We have Bagram in Alaska . . .”
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