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Watch Donald ‘Very Large Brain’ Trump Show Off Upside Down Map Showing ISIS Has Been Defeated

All of the territory in Syria previously controlled by ISIS has been eliminated, the White House said Friday, and Donald Trump showed reporters and a crowd of his supporters an upside-down pair of before-and-after maps to prove it.

“So here is ISIS on Election Day, here’s ISIS right now.” he said on the tarmac in West Palm Beach, Florida as he pointed to the two different versions of the same territory. “If you look — so there’s ISIS. And that’s what we have right now, as of last night. That’s what we have right now.”

After posing for photos, he gave the map to a journalist, saying, “You guys can have the map. Congratulations. You’ll spread it around?”

While ISIS has lost all of its territory, it does not mean all of the fighters have given up. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reported there is still some ongoing fighting in eastern Syria. As he was giving his report, gunfire can be heard and flares could be seen.

When asked why it has taken a seemingly long time to dislodge the ISIS fighters from the small area, Wedeman said the forces are trying to avoid civilian casualties.

“Basically the problem is that the Syrian Democratic Forces, and we assume along with them, the Americans, the British and French wildly underestimated the number of civilians who were inside. When I came here 49 days ago, we were being told there was a mere 1,500 civilians and 500 jihadi in a larger area, but it turned out there was 30,000 civilians, many of them wives and children of ISIS jihadis, as well as a thousand jihadis still inside,” he said.

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