Trump roasted for mixing up Afghan airbase with oil-rich region of Alaska

Donald Trump has been roasted after he bizarrely mixed up an Alaskan wildlife refuge and an Afghanistan airbase during a town hall in Michigan.

The former president appeared on stage in Flint on Tuesday for the event which was moderated by his former White House press secretary and current Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Along with declaring that “only consequential presidents get shot at”, and pledging to revive Michigan’s waning automotive industry, the former president boasted about his administration getting drilling approval in Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

But the name of the vast swathe of mountains and forest in the Last Frontier escaped him and, instead, he mixed up the ANWR with the former largest US air base in Afghanistan located 5,000 miles east: Bagram Airfield – which is now in the hands of the Taliban.

“Check that one out. Bagram. Check that one that. ANW… it’s, it’s… no, think about this,” Trump said, tripping over his words. “Between Bagram, between… you go to ANWR…”

It’s not clear how Trump mixed up the two locations which are phonetically different and are in separate continents.

Trump also over-inflated the size of the Alaskan wildlife refuge before touting his controversial oil-drilling deal secured just days before the end of his presidency in 2021 – a deal that was swiftly culled by the Biden administration.

“We were energy independent, we were soon going to be energy dominant, and we would’ve been now having so much money coming out of the energy,” Trump began.

“We just have the best. We have Bagram in Alaska,” a confused Trump said.

ANWR, not Bagram, is described as America’s last great wilderness. Its 6,000 sq km stretch of coast holds the largest onshore