Video footage of a 2024 conversation between President Donald Trump and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore disproves Trump’s claim that Moore called him “the greatest president of my lifetime.”
Trump and Moore have been trading public barbs over public safety in Baltimore amid the president’s takeover of law enforcement in nearby Washington, DC. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Trump claimed that Moore, a Democrat, struck a markedly different tune when they met privately at the Army-Navy football game in Maryland in December 2024.
“I met him at the Army-Navy game,” Trump said. “They said, ‘Oh there’s Gov. Moore, he’d love to see you.’ He came over to me, he hugged me, shook my hand – you were there – he said, ‘Sir, you’re the greatest president of my lifetime.’ I said, ‘That’