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Aaron Blake @AaronBlake
Trump asks a reporter what the population of Seoul, South Korea, is.
"I know South Korea better than anybody," he says. "You know how many people are in Seoul?"
"38 million," he says.
It's about 10 million.
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,329 posts)up with "38 m."
Which is of course the city's elevation.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)Jim__
(14,075 posts)How can even he be stupid enough to make that claim?
kentuck
(111,089 posts)In 2017, the population was 9.776 million.
He was only off about 28 million.
Iterate
(3,020 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts).
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ck4829
(35,069 posts)Great show, not something I'd want to live in real life and not be able to get away from.
Dwight: I know South Korea better than anybody.
Jim: Oh, so do you know how many people are in Seoul?
Dwight: 38 million.
Jim: No, I'm pretty sure it's about 10 million. (And Oscar verifies that Jim is indeed correct)
And let's be honest, you read this in their voices, didn't you?
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Someone is getting fired over that lost and staged attempt at brilliance.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)I wonder who will get this reference.
thucythucy
(8,048 posts)than every single South Korean alive today.
I wish a reporter had asked him to say one single word in Korean. Because, you know, Trump knows more about Korea than the Koreans.