Trump Makes Sweeping Claim About U.S. Weapons And Critics Instantly Spot A Problem

Trump has previously suggested, without evidence, that Iran possessed Tomahawk missiles and may have been responsible for using them in a strike on an Iranian girls' school.

President Donald Trump made sweeping claims on Friday about the United States’ weapons capabilities, only for users on social media to quickly point out how those claims drastically differ from comments he made days earlier.

“Look, nobody has the technology or the weapons that we have, and the Patriots are an example of it,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in discussing the missiles at the U.S. military’s disposal. “We have the Tomahawks, we have the Patriots, we have stuff that nobody’s ever been able to produce, and they can’t produce it like us.”

This counters Trump’s suggestion earlier this week that Iran had somehow obtained the American-made Tomahawk missiles and was possibly responsible for the Tomahawk strike on an Iranian girls’ school during the first days of the war. The strike killed at least 175 people, most of them young girls.

“I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is used by, you know, is sold and used by other countries,” Trump said on Monday.

“Whether it’s Iran, who also has some Tomahawks, they wish they had more, but whether it’s Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk is very generic. It’s sold to other countries, but that’s being investigated right now,” he continued.