Well, when caught in a dumb mistake he often covers his ass by claiming he was joking, and he wraps himself in thought knots so is reasonable he could be turning to seriously joking about something to flag, to kite, a possible intent. And in the Strait of Iran case it wouldn't be stretching it to think at the time he forgot Horumuz wasn't in the USA as the Kennedy Center is, albeit now under a different name.
Corruption in the redo? It's a Trump effort, so there would have to be, eh.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”