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WTF is this incompetent, inept, unfit buffoon talking about now?
Trump Baffles With Claim to Have Taken Control of Mideast Oil
Trump Baffles With Claim to Have Taken Control of Mideast Oil
President Donald Trump prompted a bout of head-scratching when he said the U.S. had control of the Middle East’s oil.
Trump made the comments twice on Friday -- first in a tweet proclaiming “The U.S. has secured the Oil,” and later while discussing the temporary cease-fire reached between Turkish and Kurdish fighters in northern Syria a day earlier.
“We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East -- the oil that we’re talking about, the oil that everybody was worried about,” Trump said during a White House event to mark the first all-female space walk. “The U.S. has control of that.”
U.S. control might be news to OPEC -- the producer group that meets periodically to boost or cut production to keep the oil market in balance -- and has five members in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and the U.A.E.