Trump: Dead soldiers are walking around without legs

Donald Trump’s flights of fantasy are now so manifold and out there that when he claimed at the weekend that US soldiers apparently killed by Iranian-provided roadside bombs in Iraq were “walking around without legs” it barely warranted any coverage.

At the weekend, hosting a college sports event at the White House alongside the likes of golfer Tiger Woods and American football coach Nick Saban – in which he rated his performance as a military commander in the Iranian conflict as “12 to 15” out of 10 – he pivoted to the Iraq War of 2003-2011 and the deaths of US servicemen.

“The situation with a very bad and very sick group of leaders, who were killing a lot of people,” he told the gathered basketball and gridiron players. “A lot of our people were being killed. They were being maimed.

“They were being destroyed with their bombs all over the place, planted in roads, and we called them the roadside bombs. Walking around without legs, without arms, face blasted. Killed many, many people.”

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Rather than having misspoke, though, the commander-in-chief returned to the theme in his news conference, his first since military action began in Iran, in Florida on Monday night.

“The people that died in the roadside bombs died in [sic] are right now walking around with no legs, no arms, a face that’s been so badly damaged,” he claimed. Nurse! The smelling salts!

Meanwhile, it has emerged that earlier the same day Trump addressed a meeting of congressional Republicans on the issue of supposed Democratic voter fraud, in which he voiced his fears that people were using the ID of their daughters if they are “of age” to vote – that “of age” being, rather awkwardly, six years old.

“Let’s go for the gold,” he said. “Let’s not just get one like voter ID but, you know, it can be given to you by your daughter, you know, your daughter, she has to be of age, like above six years old, she’s allowed to say, you have to see, some of this stuff is so bad.”

No, Rats in a Sack has no idea either.