Trump Fumbles After Kansas City Chiefs Win Super Bowl, Names The Wrong State
President Donald Trump congratulated the Kansas City Chiefs on defeating the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday night, telling the team they represented “the Great State of Kansas ... so very well.”
Just one problem: The Chiefs aren’t based in Kansas but rather in Missouri.
Trump deleted the tweet, but it was preserved in a screenshot:
Trump soon deleted the tweet and issued a new one with the correct state.
Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, share a border, and the Chiefs have a fanbase in both states. But the Missouri city is significantly larger, and the team has played there since moving from Texas in 1963.
The geographical blunder comes a little more than a week after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cursed out National Public Radio journalist Mary Louise Kelly for asking him about Ukraine ― and then challenged her to find it on a map.
“He called out for his aides to bring him a map of the world with no writing, no countries marked,” Kelly told The New York Times. “I pointed to Ukraine. He put the map away. He said, ‘People will hear about this.’”
Pompeo later implied, implausibly, that she had pointed to Bangladesh.
Twitter users, including former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, called out Trump for not knowing the basic geography of the country he leads:
It’s Missouri you stone cold idiot. pic.twitter.com/O1cAAOFsJ6
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) February 3, 2020
Wrong state. Best stay out of things you don't understand, like the Heart of America. pic.twitter.com/wPDWYHgR46
— Lauren Arthur (@LaurenArthurMO) February 3, 2020
He is just soooooooo stupid. https://t.co/IyD7GyklIZ
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 3, 2020
lol have pompeo show you a map
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 3, 2020
Tomorrow: Trump waves around a map in Oval Office showing that Kansas City is, in fact, in Kansas. pic.twitter.com/e5jb6R7RHf
— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) February 3, 2020
https://t.co/G7nnXGScmM https://t.co/pVpo6pAKZW
— Tess (@MsTessMcGill) February 3, 2020
I hope the Trump voters in both Kansas and Missouri have a little clearer picture now of how much Trump doesn't give a shit about them.
If Barack Obama had made that mistake, they'd have impeached him out of sheer hurt feelings.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 3, 2020
Trump cares so much about Kansas and Missouri that he can’t bother to figure out where Kansas City is.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) February 3, 2020
Like Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz, "I don't think we're in Missouri anymore." pic.twitter.com/ZbF1k0QrSW
— Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) February 3, 2020
To get back to Kansas, you just click your bone spurs together 3 times. pic.twitter.com/nMZ7Z3JdtX
— Dave Pell (@davepell) February 3, 2020
Trump is totally going to eminent domain the team and compel Kansas to annex their stadium before he'll actually admit fault.
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) February 3, 2020
Can’t believe the Deep State put Kansas City in MISSOURI just to embarrass Trump.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 3, 2020
The @Chiefs are from Missouri, you idiot. https://t.co/29JRzp876a https://t.co/cMxQTICMwX
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) February 3, 2020
Sorry. A Sharpie can't fix this one. pic.twitter.com/B3FvGAYpHQ
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) February 3, 2020
Stable Genius. pic.twitter.com/btSpWgYOGs
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) February 3, 2020
Only latte-sipping, coastal elites know where Arrowhead Stadium is.
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) February 3, 2020
Good Job 👍 pic.twitter.com/jrMwbdESpC
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) February 3, 2020
Do you think that the people of Kansas will be upset that you don’t know where they are? Or, for that matter where Missouri is? I mean, it’s not like it’s Ukraine or Bangalore.
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) February 3, 2020
Lol Donald Trump congratulating Kansas for winning the Super Bowl is so great I can't stand it. pic.twitter.com/1w3vaSJp6n
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) February 3, 2020
Says who pic.twitter.com/cZDrosXn2X
— Johnny Lumanji (@MrJlumanji) February 3, 2020
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