Friday, December 12, 2025 | 10:38 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

There's no mistaking Trump for a boy scout

President Obama, who was a boy scout in his youth, unlike Trump, missed the two national jamborees

Donald Trump
premium

US President Donald Trump at a joint news conference at the White House in Washington

Jonathan Hillis | NYT
In the middle of his wandering speech before the Boy Scouts of America on Monday night, President Trump asked with a smirk if Barack Obama had ever visited them at a jamboree.

“The answer is no,” he assured the crowd. President Obama, who was a boy scout in his youth, unlike Mr. Trump, missed the two national jamborees that took place when he was president (though he did address them by video). But he invited a group of scouts to come to the Oval Office each year, and he gave them a very different kind of message from the one they