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

Donald Trump has been mocked online for giving a rambling answer on childcare during a campaign event in New York on Thursday.

The former president was asked at the Economic Club of New York how he would prioritize legislation to make childcare more affordable if he wins the presidential election in November.

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.”

House Democrat Sean Casten responded to Trump’s remarks on X, formerly Twitter, writing: “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.”

The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump conservative group, added: “This is him after weeks of debate prep by the way.”

A third X user commented: “This is not The Weave. This is a physical assault on the English language.

“To this day, after doing business with this man, I am still dismayed about the most underreported story about this nincompoop. He is legitimately illiterate.”

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