Wrong way battle group

Trump and General James Mattis Secretary of Defense,  said the USS Carl Vinson was headed for North Korea as it sailed the opposite direction.

Now the Navy's battle group was just operating according to their orders and no one had changed those orders. Donald Trump has not been listening to his intelligence experts so it is not surprising that he did not know where the battle group was located. It is surprising that General James Mattis did not know where they are or were they just lying? This is one time when lying is better than not knowing what is going on with your own Navy.