During the second of three presidential debates last night in Santa Clarita, California, President Donald Trump made the following claim:
“I have been tougher on Rusher than any president in history. Vladimir Putin sleeps in a different place every night because he’s so scared of me. I am now considered by many to be a czar of Rusher, probably the best czar they’ve ever had.”
Noted historians and foreign-policy scholars consider the following U.S. presidents of the past decades to have been “tougher” on Russia than Mr. Trump: Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Truman.
There is no evidence that Russian president Vladimir Putin has adjusted his overnight locations for fear of Mr. Trump.
The title “czar” does not exist today.
It’s Russia, you dolt.