Edit: why am I being downvoted. I am not agreeing with him or saying he is right. Just stating what was said. It seems noteworthy that the president of the US commented on it regardless of accuracy or trustworthiness.
When I was trying to get as much information as I could (I'm a Lebanese abroad) I automatically mentally filtered out/skipped what trump was saying. Literally not worth the time. Anything officials say unofficially has more value to me.
Unverified and likely false information (fake news) is downvoted. If you question the accuracy of the information it's better, still not good, but you didn't before your edit.
I agree with your sentiment. There are videos that appear to depict the main explosion resulting from a missile strike, the folk filming react to it as it enters the frame immediately prior to detonation.
It's wrong to classify something false with certainty when it is just conjecture and likely of a political nature at that.
Trump’s statements on the matter are of no interest though. If it was possibly going to lead to some imminent executive action, then it might be. It all depends. For most topics, his statements are not worthy of posting here imho.
> On the flip side, perhaps knowing that you are off the hook for paying for the expense of many children would increase the desire to reproduce?
Prosperity, and strong social safety nets in particular, have been shown to lead to decreased propensity to reproduce. The less one relies on family for old age, disability, unemployment, etc., support, the smaller families people have.
Trump is not a reliable source for anything. He lies/misleads more than he tells the truth whenever he's talking about something verifiable as far as I can tell.
Disagree. I downvoted not for its obvious falsity, but because the non-consequential statements of a fraudulent buffoon are of no interest in a forum like this. Such quotes only raise the heat and noise level here.
If it was a consequential statement, that would be different.
On some matters, we must pay close attention to what he says, because it can warn us of big mistakes he is about to make. So he does make some statements that are consequential. But this determination of whether a statement is consequential or not is not dependent on whether the statement is false or not. It’s more dependent on the details of the context, and how those fit in the whole picture.
"We have a very good relationship with the people of Lebanon and we will be there to help. It looks like a terrible attack," Trump told reporters at the White House.
"I've met with some of our great generals and they just seem to feel that this was not some kind of manufacturing explosion type of an event ... They seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind."
Why is Trump used as a source on HN? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that man say something that was useful or true.
I’m not American, mind you, so I’m certainly biased because he’s mainly in our media when he does something stupid, but everything I have ever heard him say about Europe has been so far from the truth that it’s hard to take his word on anything.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tPvH-CqH7Q8
Edit: why am I being downvoted. I am not agreeing with him or saying he is right. Just stating what was said. It seems noteworthy that the president of the US commented on it regardless of accuracy or trustworthiness.