Trump said last night (June 10th, Beijing Time): If I hadn't "sent troops" to Los Angeles for the past three nights, this once beautiful and great city would have been completely destroyed, just like the 25,000 houses in Los Angeles that were burned down due to the incompetence of the governor and mayor... (Full text in Figure Two)

[Smart Comment]: Trump's self-esteem is exploding, and he particularly likes to use the subjunctive mood to praise himself. The sentence structure is similar to: If I were president, the Russia-Ukraine war wouldn't have happened; If I were president, there wouldn't be so many people killed in Ukraine; If I were president, we wouldn't have so many illegal immigrants; If I were president, we wouldn't be taken advantage of by China...

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