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'What's this a tour of?':...
'What's this a tour of?': Trump barely understood the significance of an iconic Pearl Harbor memorial during a private tour, new book says
David Choi
President Donald Trump did not appear to understand the significance of a Pearl Harbor memorial during a private tour of the USS Arizona Memorial, according to a new book.
The memorial was constructed in 1962, right above the original USS Arizona, in memory of the more than 2,400 service members and civilians who were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack — some of whom were entombed in the battleship.
According to the Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, Trump asked his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, "Hey, John, what's this all about? What's this a tour of?"
"He was at times dangerously uninformed," a former senior White House official said, according to the Washington Post.
The memorial was constructed in 1962, right above the original USS Arizona, in memory of the more than 2,400 service members and civilians who were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack — some of whom were entombed in the battleship.
According to the Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, Trump asked his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, "Hey, John, what's this all about? What's this a tour of?"
"He was at times dangerously uninformed," a former senior White House official said, according to the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump did not appear to understand the significance of the iconic Pearl Harbor memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, during a private tour of the USS Arizona Memorial, according to a new book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters from the Washington Post.
The book, "A Very Stable Genius," is an account from hundreds of hours of interviews with over 200 sources, according to the Post. Some of its details, which paint an unflattering picture of the president's knowledge of foreign affairs, were corroborated by "calendars, diary entries, internal memos and even private video recordings," The Post reported.
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