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Topics: Donald Trump, US News, Politics
Callum Jones
Donald Trump appears to have been caught out in a major 'lie' as the Governor of Maryland called out the president with a scathing six-word response.
There's no doubt that the US leader says a lot, and that's just to the cameras he invites into the Oval Office on a weekly basis.
While announcing a slew of new executive orders on Monday (August 25), Trump described the Maryland city of Baltimore as a 'horrible death bed' ridden with crime, a claim he seems to have made about a number of Democratic-led US cities.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has unsurprisingly not taken kindly to this description, saying in a speech Trump should 'walk our streets and not just talk about us from the Oval Office'.
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Then Trump went on to claim that while Moore slams him publicly, privately he's called him 'the greatest president' of his lifetime
Trump said: "He came over to me, hugged me, shook my hand and said, 'Sir, you're the greatest president of my lifetime.'
"I said, 'It's really nice of you to say that, I'd love for you to say it publicly, but I don't think you can do that so it's OK.'
"'No sir, you're doing a fantastic job, I wanted to just shake your hand.'"
The only problem is, Moore insists this conversation never happened.
Addressing the claims made by Trump, Carter Elliott IV, a senior communications adviser to Moore, said: "Moore and the president met, but the governor did not say that."
Moore said on WBAL Radio: "I’m a person who takes my integrity very seriously, and I spent the past six months before that election campaigning as to why I did not think that he should be the next president of the United States.
"So when I say that conversation never happened, that imaginary conversation never happened, I mean that conversation never happened."
The governor simply said 'lol' in response to the claims on X, before issuing a six-word response to the POTUS.
"Keep telling yourself that, Mr. President," he added.
Trump criticised Moore on Monday, saying he doesn't 'have what it takes' to lower crime levels in Maryland.
"Moore is doing a bad job, [Gavin] Newsom is doing a bad job. All of their potential candidates are doing a bad job," Trump said.
While Moore has previously been mentioned as a potential Democratic presidential candidate for the 2028 election, the current vice president, JD Vance, is seemingly favored among Republicans.
Vance was asked directly by NBC if he sees Trump 'passing the torch' onto him come 2028.
The VP instantly laughed while a beaming smile remained on his face as he answered: "As you know, the president talks about everything. And if it’s in the news, the president and I have certainly discussed it."
However, Vance added: "Before we talk about anything three-and-a-half years down the road, let’s take a break from politics, focus on governing the country and when we return to politics it’s gonna be to focus on those midterm elections."
UNILAD has contacted the White House for comment.