Politics – News AnalysisTrump Humiliated After Receiving a REAL Policy Question and Is Completely Unable to Answer the QuestionThis is one of those moments you’ve been waiting for.By Andrew SimpsonSeptember 6, 2024Share Tweet Share Flip It PrintI think Donald Trump just likes the word “club.” He’s got a few exclusive clubs, he loves his golf clubs, police carry clubs, heck, his favorite food is probably a club sandwich (with no vegetables).He just likes being part of a club, one way or the other
Trump Humiliated After Receiving a REAL Policy Question and Is Completely Unable to Answer the QuestionSearch Politics – News AnalysisTrump Humiliated After Receiving a REAL Policy Question and Is Completely Unable to Answer the QuestionThis is one of those moments you’ve been waiting for.By Andrew SimpsonSeptember 6, 2024Share Tweet Share Flip It PrintI think Donald Trump just likes the word “club.” He’s got a few exclusive clubs, he loves his golf clubs, police carry clubs, heck, his favorite food is probably a club sandwich (with no vegetables).He just likes being part of a club, one way or the otherThat’s likely why he jumped at the chance to speak to the Economic Club of New York. He probably thought that he’d be in a room with a bunch of people with a lot of money from his hometown.Unfortunately for Donald, that’s not what they are. They are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to giving some serious thought to some serious things. None of those things involve running America like a business, as Trump wants to do.In fact, ironically, it’s probably GOOD that’s not what they do, since Trump isn’t even allowed to DO business in New York anymore.Regardless, what Trump is used to when appearing in public is fawning interviewers with softball questions. He is not used to substance at all. And as I said, this is a serious group. If he tells them “Kamala destroyed California,” they might actually ask him how, as no one has seemed to yet.
But Trump was not invited there to trash-talk his opponent in the presidential race. As he quickly found out, he was there to answer specific policy questions. And while I will begrudgingly admit that there are one or two things that Trump is decent at, policy is not one of those things.After some platitudes and thank yous, the panel hosting the former president jumped right in to the hard stuff. I’m talking, a question that had Trump’s head spinning “like nobody’s ever seen before,” to borrow a phrase from a famous windbag.
Well, my favorite color is green,” Trump began. No, I’m kidding, of course. He did not say that. What he did say was FAR more ridiculous. Trump absolutely thought he could just give an answer like one of his rally claims.“It’s like… It’s crazy. It’s just horrible, actually.” That’s how he really started. “But, uh, yeah, we’re– two trillion, and I view it as profit and loss to a certain extent. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, it’s trade,’ you know, you have many people say ‘trade deficits don’t matter.’ I think they matter a lot. Uh, we’re going to have tremendous growth, this, what I’m talking about is all about growth. The tax is relatively minor compared to growth, we’re going to make our money back on growth, we’re going to also— you know, we’re going to grow like nobody’s ever grown before.”
Now, switch all of the instances of “going to” (where I was being kind in transcribing) and change it to “gonna,” and you have just the tip of the ridiculous answer he gave.In all fairness to the Fearless Bleater, there are only a handful of people who could answer that question as succinctly as it was asked. But Trump sounded so far out of his element, he might as well have been trying to understand his kid speaking Slovenian to the Secret Service.
