Former President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the New York Economics Club on Thursday that was highlighted by a completely nonsensical reply to a question about lowering the cost of childcare.
After being asked about specific policies he'd enact to cut the cost of childcare, Trump launched into a meandering response that barely even mentioned the subject at hand and instead rambled about slapping foreign countries with tariffs and seemed to suggest that he could use the money collected from said tariffs to fund universal childcare.
"We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as childcare is talked about as being expensive, it’s relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in," he said at one point.
After seeing this response, MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle slammed members of the New York Economics Club for applauding to such a demonstrably incoherent answer.
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"The fact that he said this at the Economic Club of New York is next level nonsensical," Ruhle wrote on Twitter. "And what is most galling is that every single person there knows it. This is not a room of low information voters. He really truly said he is going to eliminate the deficit (which he last ballooned) And pay for child care with TARRIFFS. blanket tariffs do one thing - Jack up the costs of foreign made goods to American consumers. THAT IS IT. A silent room made one thing clear- they'll nod through nonsense for tax cuts."
In a follow-up post, Ruhle challenged the media to accurately report that Trump's remarks made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
"Calling Trump's remarks at the NY Economics Club incoherent gibberish is not a biased attack," she argued. "It is a completely rational observation. He did not speak in coherent or complete sentences. And when he did, proposals like (tariffs - childcare) do not make sense."
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