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South Korea "essentially" didn't pay for the cost of the US military presence in the country before Trump first became president. Trump then got South Korea to unhappily agree to pay "$3 billion" in a year, with further increases the following year and the year after that. But then the 2020 election was "rigged" against him. When Joe Biden became president, South Korea convinced Biden that Trump was "probably a bad person" and they shouldn't have to pay the money, so Biden "immediately rescinded" Trump's "order."

Let's walk through why all of this is wrong. The facts show that Trump's comments include at least five separate inaccurate claims " in addition to his usual exaggeration of the size of the US military presence in South Korea, which he put at "39,000" but the Pentagon said was actually 26,589 as of the end of March.

South Korea was paying for the US military presence before Trump's first presidency. It's not true that Trump got South Korea to pay "$3 billion" in any year. It's not true that Trump got South Korea to agree to two subsequent increases. It's not true that the 2020 election was rigged. It's not true that Biden agreed to a South Korean demand to rescind Trump's cost-sharing deal.

What a pathetic lying clown.