Call me crazy, but to me it seems that any American student would know how many states are in the U.S. Liberal robots have a chip missing or something that allows them to gloss over a simple fact like this. It literally “does not compute”.
Supposedly he went to Punahou private school where the wealthy kids attend. Hawaii is the 50th state. Of all people, children in Hawaii and Alaska should have this basic detail in their minds.
Judge Jeanine mentioned the 57-state thing in her opening monologue on Saturday in her take-down of Comey.
Yes, he certainly was in school in Hawaii enough years at a time to know that.
But truthfully, when pols are talking on the camera all the time they undoubtedly get caught with a misspoken statement or two.
I don’t think Obama has or had any actual confusion of the number of states in the US. But the number that came out instead, in his momentary misspeak, was also telling.