Donald Trump Mocked Over Answer to Childcare Question: ‘Towering Stupidity’

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mocked-answer-childcare-us-presidential-election-republicans-1949692

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  1. It shows how utterly ignorant and out of touch he really is.

  3. They’ll call Kalama “word salad” but even on her worst day she’s been much better than this.

  4. DonOld’s age is really showing lately. His mind is slipping more and more each day. Sad.

  5. I doubt he’s ever actually cared for a child, other than wanting to date his daughter

  6. The man’s brain has already been moldy pudding, but when asked a question that requires him to step out of his own shoes a bit and empathize with others, the tires REALLY blow out.

    He’s never struggled to find help with his kids so he can’t think of anything to help others.

    During the debate he repeatedly refused to answer a question about how to support those fighting addiction.

    Before the height of Covid he insulted a reporter for asking what he would tell anyone who was scared about a pandemic.

    His brain blue screens the moment something isn’t about him.

  7. Towering stupidity? More like incomprehensible word salad

  8. Trump’s word salads are getting worse and worse and worse and yet his true believers seem entirely incapable of noticing the decline.

  9. I’m surprised he never got around to saying “those are rookie numbers…”

  10. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mocked-answer-childcare-us-presidential-election-republicans-1949692) reduced by 83%. (I’m a bot)
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    > Donald Trump has been mocked online for giving a rambling answer on childcare during a campaign event in New York on Thursday, with one House Democrat calling the reply "Towering stupidity.”

    > Peter Henlein, a self-styled "Political junkie" from Florida, wrote: "Trump is asked how he'll make childcare affordable. His rambling, nonsensical response is embarrassing. And ultimately Trump does kind of arrive at an answer to the question. It's tariffs. This isn't conservative. Or common sense.”

    > Another use offered a more comprehensive defense, commenting: "The answer is so obvious, and your characterization is laughable. Trump basically explained that childcare is cheap compared to how much money he plans on turning in.”

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  11. Honestly man someone call a doctor. This man was having a stroke.

  12. One of the most important moments in Presidential speeches: “(that) because (look) childcare is childcare (it’s couldn’t you know it’s something)”. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE!

  13. It’s just another remix of the same catchphrases he says everytime he’s asked anything at all.

    How can people still think his words mean anything??

  15. People in my life will shockingly ask if I’m for real when I tell them I think Trump is a know nothing moron. It’s occams razor at this point for me. Dude is a fucking idiot who happened to be born with a diamond encrusted spoon in his mouth. That doesn’t make him smart. The fact that he’s wealthy doesn’t make him intelligent. Yet, in this country people assume you must be smart if you win the economic genetic lottery.

  16. No worries JD Vance covered it for him already. The answer to childcare is grandparents! Problem solved!!

  17. ~50% of voters are gonna vote for an alzheimers patient.

    Go. Vote.

  19. He did say ‘child care’ a couple of times throughout that shit, so as far as the MSM is concerned it’s all A OK

  21. This is the stupidest man on the face of this earth. He should be imprisoned.

  22. Donald Trump is a real life dumbass and the media should be talking about how dangerously stupid he is. Remember when he mixed up health insurance with what sounded like some form of social security or life insurance? He can’t get into specifics on anything because he doesn’t know anything about anything and thinks he is an expert on everything

  24. I can’t imagine being on his team and having to praise him for his outstanding grasp of the complex issues of the day. Those people must drink very heavily every night.

  25. I was stunned. What a shockingly ridiculous response to a reasonable question that millions of people (including many of his voters) have an existential interest in. What. The. Fuck.

  26. Trump on affordable Child care:

    “Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka was sooo..uh..impactful on that issue. It’s very important issue… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that, because, the child care is, child care is ..couldn’t, you know, there’s something you’d have to have it in this country, you have to have it. uh but when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that..they’re not used to but they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not gonna stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our Country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers we’re talking about including child care…that it’s gonna take care. We’re gonna have. I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time. Coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all the other things that are going on in our Country. Because I have to stay with child care..I wanna stay with child care but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about INCLUDING growth..but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just..uhh..that I just told you about, we’re gonna-bee takin in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care..uhh..is talked about as being expensive, it’s relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kinda of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re gonna make this into…..an incredible Country that can afford to take care of it’s people..and then we’ll worry about the rest of the World..let’s help other people. But we’re gonna take care of our Country first, this is about America first, is about Make..America..Great..Again..We have to do it because right now we’re a failing Nation..so we’ll take care of it. Thank you.”

  27. “Vote for me and your wildest dreams will come true.” He’s straight out of Napoleon Dynamite.

  28. You can see him try to remind himself to get back on track when he says he need to stick to childcare but he just doesn’t have anything substantive to say and immediately loses the thread again.

  29. That’s a lot of words to say I don’t have a plan.

  30. *”I don’t know what he just said. I don’t think he knows what he just said”*.

    – Donald Trump

  31. I used to teach English. This is the answer a kid gives when they’ve not read the book but try to bullshit their way through the oral presentation anyway. It’s laughable.

  32. At least with the debate Biden seemed flustered when he was answering like a bumbling idiot. Trump seemed pretty content with literal word salad.

    I showed my wife the clip and she asked if he forgot what the question was because he missed so bad.

  33. The man does nothing but toss word salad on tv. This was mos def unusually nuts, and that is saying something. Swings that wavered as Biden faltered have heartily engaged on voting for Harris.

  34. He rambles rambles rambles and finally ends with “well it’s not that expensive”

  35. This is like The Last Of Us when the fungus takes over the brain

  37. He doesn’t understand the question because he doesn’t care about children, like at all, so he’s stumped by it.

  39. So basically as coherent an answer as that beauty pageant girl gave about geography- does that mean JD Vance will make fun of him for it and then say something thoughtless and cruel if he complains?

  41. Republicans have bashed Biden relentlessly about his cognitive decline. Yet here is Trump, in full view of everyone, failing time after time to simply form a coherent sentence. And it’s only going to get worse.

    They still complain about Biden, who stepped aside, but are ready and willing to put Trump in power for four years, knowing how bad off he already is.

    The hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is staggering.

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