Trump Gives Incoherent 360-Word Response to Question About Childcare | When asked what specific legislation he would support to make it affordable, Trump replied with a meandering 360-word response that largely failed to address the question.
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It failed to address his sanity. If Biden had done that he would have carted off to an old folks home.
“…I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that—because look, child care is child care, it’s—couldn’t, you know, it’s something, you have to have it, in this country you have to have it.” … [but wait there’s more…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVinpyscTU)
The rambling answer was bad, but I think the applause after his answer was worse.
Can’t wait for Harris’ rebuttals to this shit at the debate.
“Vice President, your rebuttal?”
“Dafuq he talking about?”
Sigh. If Harris wins a close election it’s gonna be a shitshow. Need people to start paying attention!!
Who are the nitwits that clapped for that word diarrhea? Isn’t anyone curious about who thinks that was just dandy?
All of those words and didn’t say shit
It was a lot of words for him to say he places little to no importance on affordable childcare.
Donald Trump uses a whole different kind of numbers!?
I have to know more about this alt math!
In oratory circles we refer to this advanced technique as ‘the basket weave’ ..it will ultimately remove one’s will to engage in conversation if done properly.
So, the usual, then?
Buy a bunch of add time, play the entire answer he gave followed by “I’m Kamala Harris and I approved this message”
“Largely failed to address the question” is being ridiculously kind.
When he repeatedly brings up tariffs as a magic economic cure-all, why does no one press him to explain how the costs of those tariffs won’t be passed on to American consumers as they have been in the past? What will be different this time?
I mean, I know he doesn’t have an answer, but no one even seems to be asking him.
Isn’t this what he does in response to like every question? Rambles total nonsense completely avoiding the question?
> that largely failed to address the question
That’s a severe understatement of Trump’s incoherence.
He didn’t even satisfy the basics of grammatical structure. You couldn’t parse a single idea out of it, right or wrong, relevant or irrelevant. It sounded like he was literally aphasic.
lets not forget about his masterpiece 8 years ago:
*Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.*
And yet they clapped
It was a meaningless word salad about bigly numbers.
Don’t forget the shit Vance said on the topic yesterday. Imo, it’s worse because you smell Project 2025 all over it. Trump doesn’t have a fucking clue. He stood up there halfway to weekend at Bernie’s. He’ll do whatever his handlers tell him to do.
He never addresses the question. He either bullshits like a third grader giving a book report on a book he never cracked open. More likely he gives no answer and complains about how terrible things are and they will be worse if he doesn’t win.
He is woefully unqualified for the job and has no understanding of how government works or anything about domestic or foreign policy.
Like every time he talks. If he wins, it will be the same, but in front of a helicopter so you can’t hear him either.
How much fucking orange shit did he apply today? Jesus christ.
Largely === Entirely in this case
Does anyone else think the debate is never gonna happen?
Ok, so the answer seems to be that the US will get sooo much money from tariffs, that this will basically pay for childcare in this MAGA paradise. Because the numbers are so big and the childcare numbers are so small.
First tariffs are paid by the consumer and affect by-and-large by the low income consumers. A rich person cares much less that his expensive imports are 10-20% more expensive.
Furthermore, slapping tariffs on everything will lead to a trade war where at least the EU will respond in kind, making American exports more expensive abroad leading to a decline in sales.
But whatever, just look at the numbers the US imported $3.12T. Take a trillion off because that is NAFTA trade which I assume will still be free from tariffs.
That leaves about $2T. 10-20% of that is $200-400 billions. Not nothing, but childcare alone is costing $120 billion a year (according to the video).
So, no Donald your tariffs won’t be bringing in trillions and trillions and very big very special numbers. It’ll be $400 billion tops, at the cost of higher inflation, a trade war and higher domestic prices for imported goods.
No, he was weaving.
Bruce Willis is not able to do any more movies, but this guy is the Republican candidate for President of the United States.
This is not a slam on Bruce. I love him and I wish him and his family the best.
i read out his answer to my husband and we played, “guess the issue.” he had some good ideas but was nowhere near the actual question.
Largely? I think meant completely
I tried to tell my maga parents how is going through severe mental decline and they don’t believe me. It’s because they only watch Fox News and see political shit on Facebook. Fox News does not show or talk about any of this. He didn’t know about the electric sharks or Hannibal lechter and when I told him he pretended like he didn’t hear it.
From what I could decipher, he says we are going to make so much money from tariffs, that it will be a trivial matter to pay for childcare for all. Despite his inability to get that point across clearly, that is not how tariffs work. They will make any foreign made goods way more expensive and any money gained from the tariffs will be an extra burden on the consumer.
Fuck that author.
“Largely failed to answer”? Did he mean it was a MASSIVELY BAD non-answer to a simple question that ANY OTHER POLITICIAN should be able to at least speak to?
It should say “Trump failed to provide a coherent response to a common question” and that’s me being polite.
Frickin’ NY Times and Washington Post and AP treated it as though he gave a coherent answer which he did not.
Finally utters M.A.G.A and gets a smattering of applause from his groupies.
He has no answers or ideas, just babble.