U.S. President Donald Trump claimed to have gained a non-existent award from Cuban-People on Sunday, just some days after his marketing campaign tried to drum up assist by touting his nomination for the “Noble” — not Nobel — peace prize.
The president boasted about receiving the “Bay of Pigs Award” — which doesn’t exist — throughout a Latinos for Trump occasion in Las Vegas on Sunday.
“As you realize, a short time in the past I acquired the Bay of Pigs award from the Cuban People in Miami,” he claimed. “It’s a giant honour they usually don’t give it out simply.”
Trump additionally bragged in regards to the supposed award in a Twitter assault on Joe Biden, the Democrats’ nominee for president, on Sunday.
“Keep in mind, Miami Cubans gave me the extremely honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I’ve carried out for our nice Cuban Inhabitants!”
There isn’t any Bay of Pigs Award, as CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale identified on Sunday.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an notorious fiasco below former U.S. president John F. Kennedy in 1961. A U.S.-backed squad of Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba to overthrow its chief, Fidel Castro, however failed.
The Bay of Pigs Veterans Affiliation in Miami endorsed Trump for president in 2016, in an especially uncommon assertion by the group. Additionally they gave him a plaque in 1999 and in 2016. Nonetheless, the endorsement and the tokens of appreciation weren’t tied to any ongoing award from “Miami Cubans.”
The Trump marketing campaign doubled down on the declare, posting a photograph of one of many plaques on Twitter and calling it the “award.”
It’s not the primary time Trump has inflated or misrepresented his achievements. At one in every of his golf golf equipment, for instance, he had a faux Time Journal cowl of himself framed and put up on the wall. Trump has been on the duvet of the journal many occasions, however the one on his wall was not actual, as Time itself pointed out.
He has additionally falsely claimed that he gained the Michigan Man of the 12 months Award, which does not exist.
Final week, Trump moved one step nearer to profitable an award that does exist and that he’s usually claimed he deserves. A far-right Norwegian lawmaker nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize final week, citing his push to ease tensions within the Center East.
Trump seized on the nomination as one other factor to boast about on Twitter, and his marketing campaign adopted swimsuit.
The Trump marketing campaign additionally paid for a flurry of Fb adverts that misspelled the title of the prize.
An advert touts U.S. President Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Nobel” is misspelled.
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The adverts have been solely stay on Fb for a day.
Though Trump has claimed up to now that he deserves a Nobel Prize, he has appeared to not know a lot about it.
On Apr. 26, for instance, he instructed that reporters ought to return their “Noble Prizes” for reporting on Russia. He later deleted the tweet after critics identified that Nobel Prizes should not awarded for journalism, and that the prize is known as after Alfred Nobel, not the standard of being noble.
Trump later claimed he was being sarcastic with the typo.
Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, which will probably be awarded on the finish of subsequent yr.
This yr’s Nobel Peace Prize will probably be awarded on Dec. 10, one month after the U.S. presidential election. There are over 300 nominees for the prize this yr.
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