President Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., took to Twitter to defend Trump’s signing of his iconic MAGA hats while visiting deployed troops in Iraq, which CNN and other outlets publicly admonished Trump for.
“If these brave young people ask me to sign their hat, I will sign. Can you imagine my saying NO?,” Trump tweeted. “We brought or gave NO hats as the Fake News first reported!”
CNN & others within the Fake News Universe were going wild about my signing MAGA hats for our military in Iraq and Germany. If these brave young people ask me to sign their hat, I will sign. Can you imagine my saying NO? We brought or gave NO hats as the Fake News first reported!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2018
Trump Jr. doubled down on his father’s defense of the signing, facetiously asking how many “#imwithher” hats are in Iraq, a reference to Clinton’s campaign slogan during the 2016 presidential election.
“I obviously mean other than the ones that may have ended up there like the merch from the teams that don’t win the Super Bowl,” Trump Jr. wrote.
Disclaimer for accuracy so media doesn’t write a story about some Hillary hats in Iraq…
I obviously mean other than the ones that may have ended up there like the merch from the teams that don’t win the Super Bowl.
Don’t want to be inaccurate these days.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 27, 2018
CNN reported that Trump’s hat signing may have violated military regulations on service members participating in political activities while in uniform, but those regulations do not prohibit interactions with personal memorabilia especially when it involves a sitting president and commander in chief.
