Trump Claims U.S. Soldiers ‘Don’t Have Ammunition’ Because ‘We Gave It All Away’

Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed to members of the National Guard that the U.S. military is out of ammunition.

Speaking to a gathering of the National Guard Association in Detroit, the Republican presidential nominee went off on a tangent about the state of the armed forces.

“We have no ammunition,” Trump said before reenacting a conversation he allegedly had with an unnamed person in his administration:

PERSON: Sir.

TRUMP: How we doing militarily?

PERSON: We have a problem, Sir.

TRUMP What is it?

PERSON: We have no ammunition.

Trump went on to call the situation “lousy.”

“You don’t wanna tell your enemy you have no amm– I don’t wanna tell President Xi of China that we don’t have ammunition,” the former president added.

Moments later, Trump declared that the U.S. is once again out of ammo.

“I had ammunition,” he said of his time in office. “We had so much it was coming out of our gills, right? I had ammunition. I said, ‘Oh, what the hell do we do with all this ammunition?’ We had so much. And now we don’t have ammunition again. We gave it all away to different groups, but mostly into Ukraine. And we don’t have ammunition.”

Trump has told the “no ammunition” whopper before.

“When I took over, it was a mess,” Trump said as president in 2019. “One of our generals came in to see me and he said, ‘Sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, ‘That’s a terrible thing you just said.’”

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