Trump Taken By Surprise By Question On Deportations: 'I Don't Know'

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared unaware that his administration was planning to deport immigrants to Libya, a country plagued by armed conflict and brutal human rights violations, despite reports revealing as much more than a week ago.

When asked during an Oval Office press conference Wednesday whether his administration would be “sending migrants to Libya,” however, Trump responded with the same obliviousness he displayed in a far less consequential answer one day prior about soccer.

“I don’t know,” Trump told reporters. “You’ll have to ask Homeland Security, please.”

“I am sorry who exactly is running the country? Your answer to any question is I don’t know ask someone else. Tell me again about Bidens autopen Presidency,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another commenting: “Why is this an acceptable answer?”

“I mean, he talked endless shit about not believing Biden is … aware of what was going on during his term,” the user continued, “but Trump is flat out telling us himself that he doesn’t know what is happening on his watch and that is just fine?”

U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, who previously found that any migrants deported to countries other than their homelands must first be given the chance to argue that their removal would jeopardize their safety, reiterated the ruling Wednesday in a written order.

The document was signed in response to a request from immigration lawyers for a group of migrants in South Texas, who presumably aren’t from Libya — which was criticized for “harsh and life-threatening prison conditions” last year by the U.S. State Department itself.

Trump’s feigned or intentional ignorance Wednesday is being trounced on social media.