President Donald Trump attends a roundtable discussion with farmers at the White House , December 8, 2025. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Donald Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his previous remark.

Trump has a long history of falsely denying he ever said things he had said in public.

The subject of his latest false denial was the video footage of the September 2 US military strikes against a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean. The military conducted a follow-up strike to kill the people who had survived the first strike.

The Trump administration publicly released the video of the initial strike but not the video of the fol

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