He may not recover from this.
When Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, was asked about the Syrian city that is at the hub of the refugee crisis, he was totally flummoxed.
During his appearance Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Mike Barnicle asked Johnson what he would do about Aleppo.
.@mikebarnicle: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo? @GovGaryJohnson: And what is Aleppo? https://t.co/ZbqO5RAEsk
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 8, 2016
Clip via “Morning Joe” Twitter account
“What is Aleppo?” Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico asked.
“You’re kidding me,” a stunned Barnicle shot back, who then told Johnson about the city.
“OK, got it, got it,” Johnson interrupted. He added: “With regard to Syria I do think it’s a mess. I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end.”
“It’s just a mess,” he said.
Afterwards, the “Morning Joe” panel discussed Johnson’s response.
“It is staggering that somebody would run for president of the United States, get 14 percent, 15 percent in polls and be so ignorant about foreign policy that they would ask the question, ‘What is Aleppo?’ on national television,” co-host Joe Scarborough said.
The other panel members were equally stunned.
The #morningjoe panel reacts to Gary Johnson’s stunning question: What is Aleppo? https://t.co/PTrT5SdFj6
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 8, 2016
Clip via “Morning Joe Twitter account
Most of the reaction on social media was that Johnson was an unqualified idiot.
I’ve had convos w/my 13 year-old grand-niece about Aleppo. She’s studying it in her 7th grade current affairs class. https://t.co/XV555aEL4g
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) September 8, 2016
Even Gary Gnu knew what Aleppo was? https://t.co/2xfGqKKQAB
— Huggy Lowdown (@HuggyLowdownDC) September 8, 2016
Aleppo is gas attacks on children, Mr. Johnson. pic.twitter.com/8ckDhnYYZf
— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) September 8, 2016
@Morning_Joe @mikebarnicle @GovGaryJohnson @MSNBC Libertarian means you don’t have to know anything
— High Altitudes (@highaltitudes) September 8, 2016
@Morning_Joe @mikebarnicle @GovGaryJohnson ok. Give me one smart voter who is for Johnson after this, and I will give you a dumb voter.
— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) September 8, 2016
@MarcHoover1 @Morning_Joe @mikebarnicle @GovGaryJohnson poor guy! He just shot himself in the foot. Gads!!!
— Betsy Young (@Littleone619) September 8, 2016
But there were a few who thought it a “gotcha” question.
@LannyDavis @Morning_Joe @mikebarnicle @GovGaryJohnson knowing the name of a place concerns me less than doing the right thing once you do.
— Rebekah Huang ن (@HuangRebekah) September 8, 2016
And there were those who observed that the Libertarian Party — and its presidential nominee — favors the decriminalization of marijuana.
@Morning_Joe @mikebarnicle @GovGaryJohnson Looks like he had a little toke before the show.
— ThatBrooklynBabe (@BrooklynBabe19) September 8, 2016
@Morning_Joe @SHannitysHair @mikebarnicle @GovGaryJohnson Gary that’s what smoking dope does for you
— libs worst nightmare (@army1man1) September 8, 2016
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