Boasts of sending "an armada" toward North Korea while the carrier group sailed the opposite direction

In a Fox Business interview amid escalating tensions with North Korea, Trump declared the U.S. was projecting naval power toward the peninsula. In fact, the USS Carl Vinson strike group he referenced was then thousands of miles away, sailing south for long-planned exercises with Australia in the Indian Ocean — a Navy photograph placed it off Java days after the White House and Pentagon described it as steaming north. Defense officials acknowledged the miscommunication only after press reports revealed the carrier's actual location, and the group did not reach waters near Korea until the end of the month.

"We are sending an armada. Very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier, that I can tell you," Quote verified against source