Trump should have learned the meaning of the idiom about the geese by now. He’s represented by the goose on the ground in the above photo. This is from Merriam-Websters:

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

Also making a number of appearances in commentary about political disagreement was what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Our definition for this idiom as “used to say that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.” Although in common use it tends to crReferenceeate a degree of confusion for many speakers, as the word gander (“an adult male goose”) is now relatively uncommon in U. S. use. Gander has a secondary meaning of “simpleton.”

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You can view the Morning Joe clip here.

If you use Google to seach Trump confuses Iowa with S. Dakota cities here you come up with numerous stories about his saying he was in Sioux Falls while speaking to an audience in Sioux City which is 80 miles to the south.

This would be irrelvant and basically meaningless if Trump not only had tried to make a case for Biden being senile but particularly reveled in making fun of him for misstating the location he was speaking from.

What his attempt to recover from his gaff once a state senator rushed to whisper a correction (on a hot mic) was amusing. While someone else would have laughed it off and made a joke about it, this of course is Trump.

This is how the incident was described on MediaIte:

Sioux Falls is a lovely place, and former President Donald Trump made sure to open a Sunday rally by shouting out South Dakota’s largest city. Unfortunately for Trump and the many rally-goers in attendance, the former president was in Sioux City, Iowa, at the time. Womp.

As the nation contends with two leading presidential candidates who both are long in the tooth, age, and mental acuity have never been more in focus. The right has delighted in making age an issue regarding President Joe Biden, but something something glass houses?

Trump made a separate geographical gaffe in the speech, misidentifying the location of Eastern European country Hungary. Still, the more localized gaffe came when Trump shouted out Sioux Falls, which appeared to elicit a laugh from an audience of supporters, perhaps hoping it was a joke.

“Thank you very much. Very big hello to a place where we’ve done very well, Sioux Falls. Thank you very much,” Trump opened his speech to audible titters.

At one point, Iowa State Senator Brad Zaun can be heard via a hot mic telling Trump, “It’s Sioux City, not Sioux Falls,” to which Trump returned to address the Sioux Citizens in attendance. “So Sioux City, let me ask you, how many people come from Sioux City?”

All of this was captured and, of course, aired on Morning Joe, who understandably had a field day with it, even though it’s an entirely understandable mistake, which probably happens a lot.

From Mediaite

The best part of the clip for me was how he tried to recover from the gaff and go on as if it didn’t matter. I wonder whether at the time it occurred to him that this would be all over the news the day after.

Above is the state senator informing Trump that he wasn’t in Souix Falls. Below is a screen grab of his reaction after the state senator told him of the error and his reaction caught on a thankfully sensitve microphone and said “oh it’s… oh is that right?”

Does he know or care that networks have staff who can put together supercuts of anyone saying anything on a particular topic? Find Trump making fun of Biden for misstatements about where he is speaking from – the video clips are catalogued and easy to assemble .

I would like to have been in the room when the people at MSNBC searched their video files and saw how each one reacted when they found another one and realized they’d have a chock-a-block full segment of clips to use thoughout the day on their show.

Addendum: I don’t know whether national Fox News covered this but here’s an article from the website of the Kansas City Fox station from the AP in Des Moines, Iowa, which is titled “Trump says ‘no way’ Iowa votes against him as he flubs city’s name during state campaign stop.” The AP article was shared on numerous news websites.

Excerpt:

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump predicted Sunday he would win Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses in January, tossing aside what he called advisers’ caution not to overstate expectations, even as he greeted his audience by naming a city in a neighboring state. 

“I go around saying of course we’re going to win Iowa. My people said you cannot assume that,” Trump told his audience in the ornate Orpheum Theater in Sioux City, Iowa. 

“There’s no way Iowa is voting against Trump,” he said, noting the economic benefits to farm states from the tariffs his administration imposed on China. 

And yet, when Trump took the stage he gave a hearty hello to a city more than 80 miles north, and over the South Dakota state line. “Hello to a place where we’ve done very well, Sioux Falls. Thank you very much,” he said, before correcting himself several minutes later.

Missouri and Iowa border each other.