Donald Trump Mocked Over Answer to Childcare Question: 'Towering Stupidity'
Source: Newsweek
Published Sep 06, 2024 at 2:41 AM EDT | Updated Sep 06, 2024 at 7:28 AM EDT
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." The former president was asked at the Economic Club of New York, "if you win in November can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable and if so what specific piece of legislation will you advance?"
Trump responded: "I would do that and we're sitting down. 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 because childcare is childcare, you have to have it in this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the type of numbers 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 going to stop them doing business with us, but they will have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about including childcare. 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."
Regarding childcare, the Republican presidential nominee went on to claim that "those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about including growth." He later added: "We're going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people and then we'll worry about the rest of the world." A two-minute clip covering Trump's comments was shared on X by the "Acyn" account, which shares footage from American politics, where it went viral, picking up more than 10 million views.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-mocked-answer-childcare-us-presidential-election-republicans-1949692
Where is Sanjay Gupta demanding "cognitive testing"?
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Towering stupidity. The people listening know it. The people around him know it. Word salad, not even pretending to have a single coherent idea. Vote for smart people.
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Donald Trump’s answer on how he will make childcare more affordable:
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twodogsbarking
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Captain Zero
(8,881 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,665 posts)
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)His depth, of course and that of many of his followers, is the shallow end of the wading pool.
This is compounded by his weird mental deterioration.
Ray Bruns
(6,318 posts)
fargone
(619 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,318 posts)
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,469 posts)
Ray Bruns
(6,318 posts)smb
(3,598 posts)
tulipsandroses
(8,246 posts)The same way they hounded Biden? This man is unfit to hold any office. He wouldn’t be able to get a job anywhere, yet he’s somehow a viable candidate for president.
durablend
(9,243 posts)JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)double standard is obvious and pathetic. They did the same thing against Hillary in 2016.
Why is Trump held to a lower standard?
I suspect big money Wall Street influences are behind this.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)They'll have less cash to buy mischief
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)
CrispyQ
(40,936 posts)But you won't hear that on Fox & probably not on any of the Sinclair stations, either.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)least that is the impression I get from the financial networks.
We are up against some very powerful money machines, and it will be the people who vote that will determine our future.
It is no exaggeration when VP Harris says we are not going back, we must go forward. Trump and the repugs are the way back, anti-women, anti-civil rights, anti-labor, etc.
raccoon
(32,380 posts)Everybody realizes it, but nobody in the MSM is talking about it.
doc03
(39,067 posts)to be smart people.
twodogsbarking
(18,665 posts)
3Hotdogs
(15,333 posts)laughing her ass off.
" Madam Vice President, you have 1 minute for a response."
K : "That was weird."
33taw
(3,331 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,469 posts)Like he was prepped for this shit show? 
IbogaProject
(5,868 posts)They will have a Feces Fest or some such.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)we cannot depend on the MSM to do their job.
Doodley
(11,877 posts)3Hotdogs
(15,333 posts)Genius and Stable Genius are partially hereditary. So I guess I'll never achieve that level.
I'll have to live with my disappointment for the rest of my life.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,469 posts)at MIT. Very much so, MIT. Many people are saying. No one was ever more of an uncle there, in history. MIT."
SCantiGOP
(14,714 posts)Who the uncle was, what was his degree and position, and what years was he there. He couldn’t answer any of those questions.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)He is a blithering idiot, as well......
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Bullshit.....
Successful Republican Politicians have mastered this word salad doublespeak.........
BumRushDaShow
(169,272 posts)And THAT clip (that I saw on MSNBC last night a few times) was literally a textbook example and best illustration of your quote.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)That is an age ol' adage from when I was in Jr. High........One of our teachers used to use it in reference to some of our English Compositions.......Except she would say BS to avoid the admin coming down on her........
She was BY FAR the best English Teachers we ever had in our school system......LOL
BumRushDaShow
(169,272 posts)but that response he gave was exactly as described by that old saying!
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)None better to describe that word salad Double Speak that Politicians need to perfect before entering into the Political Arena....
Non Answer, Answers........gobbeldy gook.......
Lonestarblue
(13,460 posts)They would have no clue what he is talking about and would demand that someone who can make sense conduct negotiations. World leaders are worried about Trump being elected because they know that if he destroys the US economy, their economies will be hit as well. Deporting 11 million people, many of them undocumented workers in key industries, is guaranteed to cause economic chaos that will lead to market declines and most likely serious recession-2008 all over again solely for one man’s insanity.
Justice matters.
(9,753 posts)These idiotic tariffs, added to a big shortage of low-income workers in the fields which will create a shortage of goods on the shelves, a disastrous effect on inflation rates (hyperinflation) that will devastate the middle-class, not to mention the working poor!
But hey, the millionaires and billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (born elsewhere) will party like they never did before!!
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Usually media says "Trump discussed childcare" rather then providing full text of his nonsense answers
liberalla
(11,076 posts)Mouths will drop, eyes will widen... and it will be so freaking obvious to EVERYONE !!! MSM media and pundits will be unable to continue 'covering' for him. They'll be trying to catch up to the truth, and deny they were protecting him. Alas, they'll be caught with their pants down.
May that day come quickly!
:praying hands:
smb
(3,598 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,108 posts)He's essentially trying to say (perhaps!) that his tariffs will flood the federal treasury with money that can then be used to pay for childcare because there will be so much of it. There's also a suggestion that there will be so much growth domestically that tax revenue from that will make it easy to pay for childcare.
Even if he did manage to express both these ideas articulately, they're still extremely stupid points on their substance. Tariffs are designed to reduce competition from foreign products, not for the government to be enriched by the tariffs themselves. If there is a massive payoff in tariffs, that means that the goods are still coming in at the volume that supposedly caused the need for the tariffs in the first place. The more money you make from tariffs, in other words, the less effective they are.
Then there's also going to be massive domestic growth (even though the supposed problem of foreign products has not been solved at all), from which we'll derive some tax windfall. But Trump's whole thing, and the rest of his speech, was about lowering taxes on businesses to almost nothing. So again, even if there was massive domestic growth (along with, incoherently, the massive tariff revenues!), how does that pay for childcare? Or is the point that everyone will now be so rich that they can pay for their own childcare? But then what difference do the tariff revenues make?
Even the most generous reading of his "points" lead to intractable contradictions and indicate his profound ignorance of economics and policy. Even apart from his rambling nonsense, he literally has no idea what he's talking about, and this is high school level economics.
Clouds Passing
(7,893 posts)
Ol Janx Spirit
(999 posts)this is all he really knows to do? This--to me--harkens back to 'we're going to build a big beautiful wall and Mexico is going to pay for it.' That message is really just a continuation of the long-held republican policy that if you just cut enough taxes on the wealthy and corporations that everyone will magically get rich somehow--although magically that never creates inflation which would be an indicator that it was actually working. Their message for a long time now has been that you can eat all the ice cream you want and still lose weight and have a healthy heart. That message obviously sells with a large segment of the population. His message on childcare was the same thing. We will just impose these tariffs on other countries and they will gladly fund everything we want: healthcare, childcare, massive military spending, free IVF! This is also his message on energy: we will increase oil production so much that it will pay for everything we want to do. BUT, if you had "in 2024, conservatives will support isolationist economic policies intended to fund massive social spending programs" on your bingo card my hat is off to you. This is--of course--all a lie. That is part of why there is no discernable policy attached. The revenue from drilling oil will not go to funding social programs--it will go to a handful of already-wealthy corporations. The income from tariffs--like the ones already imposed under his previous administration--will go to bailing out those hurt by them and to whichever already-wealthy companies they decide to advantage through this new tax policy. When have they EVER thought it was a good idea to spend a dime on the wellbeing of the average American?
Prairie Gates
(8,108 posts)My version of it is the candidate for junior high school class president promising pizza everyday and no homework. It's completely nuts that this passes for deliberative discourse.
Ol Janx Spirit
(999 posts)is a huge problem because people love to be told they can get what they want without having to do anything they don't want to do. As fantastical as it is; THAT is a powerful message. It has lead us to multi-trillion-dollar national debt and given us DJT. It is also the reason--in my opinion--Democrats struggle so much harder with messaging than Republicans: people do not seem to want to hear a complicated discussion of how we can accomplish something if we all work together and compromise and hash out a way forward through complicated and often obscure political processes.
They want to hear that things will get fixed and they will not have to suffer one bit. It is understandable. Granted, they don't even believe this in their day-to-day life when it comes to their job or their house or their hobbies.
Botany
(77,244 posts)Now, that really explains it all doesn’t it?
Midnight Writer
(25,361 posts)This man has always been incoherent.
nwduke
(506 posts)The audience of financiers wildly applauded!😵💫😬!
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...either they will just support him for reasons of their own no matter what comes out if his mouth, or they are actually idiots themselves.
Both scenarios are extremely dangerous for our society.
dalton99a
(94,051 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,318 posts)
JohnnyRingo
(20,845 posts)Instead, he laid his plan out in detail and confirmed that he's stupid.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)"rambling incoherent" answers to his so-called economic policies yesterday.
The double standard among most of the MSM is outrageous, and that these so-called reporters are still complaining about the "lack of details" on VP Harris economic policy is not only wrong, but a complete misrepresentation of the facts.
There is no doubt in my mind that the same sexism and misogyny that Hillary went through from the MSM in 2016, is still at full steam ahead.
It is why the Democrats are taking the lead to point out what flawed and incoherent policies trump has, because the MSM won't do it.
RedSpartan
(1,766 posts)I don't speak to them anymore.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)
mwb970
(12,143 posts)JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)Yavin4
(37,182 posts)
tanyev
(49,219 posts)Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Aussie105
(7,892 posts)I mean the man is a rambling sack of random neural impulses rarely capable of stringing words together to create an intelligent sentence.
And you are asking him about policy?
Bigly unfair!
Wednesdays
(22,526 posts)He's just about totally lost it mentally.
yardwork
(69,303 posts)
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)Donny's lies are partially explained by the fact that he doesn't have facts at his command, even if he wanted to tell the truth. So he fills up the air with nonsense and deliberate fabrications because nothing else is in his brain. Even so, people applaud because he's nonetheless "entertaining." His mode of "communicating" is as a performer. So people applaud a performance, even though the content of the performance is devoid of meaning. Does anyone remember an entertainer/comedian who called himself "Professor Backwards"? He did his schtick on late-night Johnny Carson-type shows. Donny nearly mimics Professor Backwards. He's full of double-talk, as an entertainment tool, and nothing else.
Omnipresent
(7,428 posts)Trump says the weirdest, rambling statements!
yardwork
(69,303 posts)This isn't really funny. Millions of Americans will hear these words and what they hear is this, a Big Lie:
"Other countries will pay taxes to the U.S. and we'll have so much money we'll be able to pay for childcare and everything else."
It's dangerous that the media allows Trump to tell these lies, with no correction, while they nitpick "fact checks" on word choices Tim Walz said years ago.
twodogsbarking
(18,665 posts)
DownriverDem
(7,010 posts)The rich want trump because he will do what they want. The haters want trump because he promotes who they hate. It's the rich we need to worry about.
mchill
(1,188 posts)Probably to observe his next bug flubb. My first thought was why are these people clapping at any of this? Aren’t these rich people who are supposed to be smart? Then came the childcare question and I was not disappointed. He fulfilled. My conclusion was I think he was trying to say he believes in “trickle down childcare.“ Could not get a close-up of the woman asking the question to see her face, but I don’t think she clapped.
Prairie Gates
(8,108 posts)There's a case to be made that they were clapping because it was the end of the event and it's decorous to do so, but still. It's disheartening to see people clapping after that extended piece of nonsense. He really did the thing where he realized he was babbling and then just said MAGA! to get applause.
An embarrassing moment for all involved.
mchill
(1,188 posts)But there was other clapping before this question. Possibly they have all sold their souls for Corporate tax cuts and deregulation.
Xipe Totec
(44,554 posts)- Harlan Ellison
IronLionZion
(51,201 posts)I read a good article in the Atlantic about his frequent use of the phrase "like no one has ever seen before" when spewing bullshit he made up
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)"The numbers." Donny-Boy can't be specific and articulate anymore. Specifically, what are "the numbers"? He can't find the right nouns to describe what he wants to say BECAUSE HE HAS DEMENTIA. Presumably, they're tax dollars. But where does the money come from? And the "numbers" from taxed imports? Is he referring to tariffs? Why can't he tell us that tariffs are a drag on the economy because domestic consumers have to pay for the tariffs? Oh. The answer to these questions is simple: Trump can no longer use language to communicate exactly what he wants to communicate. My last position before retirement required that about half of my clients had some form of dementia. They all struggled with forming complete sentences. Their ideas are fragmented. Just like Donny when he speaks. When we see Donny up against Harris next week, we may find ourselves feeling sorry for the old fool. Harris might even be perceived as ruthless and cruel if she is honest and confrontative. She'll eat his lunch and hand him the crumbs.
surfered
(13,306 posts)
CaptainTruth
(8,191 posts)"taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to... they will have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country"
Tariffs aren't paid by "foreign nations", they're paid by the US companies importing the products. Ultimately they're paid by US consumers because the cost of imported products goes up, & Deranged Donny is too dumb to understand it.
Farmer-Rick
(12,626 posts)Probably related to his age and genetic history of Alzheimer's.
That stupid idiot who immediately got up and applauded that rambling string of sentence fragments is trying to make it look like he understood that nonsense. Giving Trump a veneer of normalcy is what his supporters and corporate media are required to do. But truthfully, there is nothing in that rambling uselessness.
Trump is gone off in his little shrinking world of craziness. The corporate media is trying its best to hide how far down into dementia pedo Trump has sunken.
Putting pedo Trump up on stage to give speeches is elder abuse at this point. Not to mention the abuse people put up with from observing this insanity.
pwb
(12,636 posts)He is a dumb fuck wealth trash asshole. He and his buddy Elo n.
howardmappel
(101 posts)No no no no!!! It was a Perfect answer. Just like the Perfect phone calls to Zelensky and Raffensperger, and just like the Perfect comment that there were "fine people on both sides," and the Perfect speech on 1/6/2021. Remember, he is a STABLE GENIUS, and everything he does is PERFECT. The reason we couldn't understand it is that we are Woke, indoctrinated, liberal, commie, fascist, feminazis, etc., etc., etc.
And all of the Republicans, including Tulsi and Bobby Jr. will answer, when asked about it, that they haven't seen it, and besides, there are gangs of Venezuelans criminals, armed with the most dangerous weapons ever (especially when compared to an AR-15 with a bump stock and extended clips), taking over our towns, raping our innocent wives and daughters (white only though), and stealing our precious bodily fluids.
And Bobby Jr. will praise the answer as an example of the clearest sentences in English ever constructed.
So say we all.
Prairie Gates
(8,108 posts)He perfectly weaved together childcare, tariffs, growth, foreign aid, America First philosophy, and MAGA, ending with the same theme, that our nation is in trouble, but that he wil save it. He's a brilliant orator who has invented the most complex system of argumentative arrangement since the classical Ciceronian. I learn this from very smart journalists.
tonekat
(2,525 posts)Dutifully go on acting as if he's a viable candidate.
We'll remember this, MSM. You have betrayed us for the last several election cycles.
bromeando
(172 posts)The gist of his answer is that Trump doesn't care about childcare problems.
Blue Owl
(59,006 posts)brush
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SupportSanity
(1,581 posts)This isn't about intelligence - it's about losing the ability to function.
When talking, staying focused is very hard. Rambling, losing sight of the topic, talking about only famililar things..... And it only gets more difficult as it progresses..
Usually, when we see Alzheimer's patients, one's empathy comes out.
With Trump, one's enmity comes out. Even bad people can get alzheimer's.
For those who have had an alzheim'er's patient in their lives, the symptoms are pretty obvious.
For the one's who have never had an alzheimer's patient in their lives, Trump will have to get a lot worse for them even to take notice.
EarthFirst
(4,138 posts)It’s just ad hominem attack; hand gestures with odd sounds; and a merchandise sales pitch.
That’s the entire campaign.
