President Trump has claimed he won Bay of Pigs award

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US President Donald Trump has claimed he received a highly-honored Bay of Pigs Award from Cuban Americans in an attack on his rival’s alleged poor track record with Latin Americans on Sunday. He also confused Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for former president Barack Obama when boasting about his Nobel Peace Prize nominations during a campaign rally. President wrote in a tweet on Sunday and said, “Sleepy Joe Biden has spent 47 years in politics being terrible to Hispanics”. His comments came following reports that Vermont democratic socialist senator Bernie Sanders has concerns about Biden’s campaign. He added, “Now he is relying on Castro lover Bernie Sanders to help him out. That won’t work! Remember, Miami Cubans gave me the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I have done for our great Cuban Population”!

But, there is no such award as a Bay of Pigs Award, as many on the social media platform pointed out and mocked the president for. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961, carried out by Cuban exiles trying to overthrow Fidel Castro. The operation was sponsored by the CIA and its failure continues to plague US-Cuban relations. The Obama administration sought to improve relations and he became the first US president to visit Havana in nearly a century in 2016. But Trump reversed his predecessor’s efforts to foster relations with Cuba, rolling back its people-to-people educational travel permits and prohibiting cruise ships from calling into the island.

President Trump previously visited a Bay of Pigs Museum in Little Havana, in Miami, in October 2016. He received a hand-painted Brigade 2506 shield during the visit, which is the award in question, his campaign has insisted. Point to be noted that Brigade 2506 is the unit that carried out the failed invasion. The Bay of Pigs Veterans Association gave Trump an endorsement in 2016. It was the first-ever from the group of Florida-based veterans, but no award comes with it. President Trump informed his supporters in Nevada and said, “They nominated your president twice last week, for two different subjects, for a Nobel prize but the fake news media didn’t cover it. Remember when our great president Barack Hussein Obama, he got it”.