Townhall Trump

A piece of the transcript from last Tuesday night’s Town Hall Meeting in Flint, Michigan. Nothing is doctored. It’s Donald Trump’s word-for-word response to one of the questions he was asked from the audience.

A man named Isaiah: “And my question to you, sir, is what do you see as the major threats to the future of Michigan manufacturing autoworking jobs? And what will you do to eliminate those threats, sir?”

Trump: “OK, so I’ll get into another little bit of a long answer, because when you say major threat to me, we have one really major threat that’s called nuclear weapons. We call it we have other countries that are hostile to us. They don’t have to be hostile to us. I always say if you have a smart president, you’ll never have a problem with China, Russia or any of them. OK, I got along great with Putin. I got along great with President Xi. I got along great with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Everybody said, oh, you can’t get along with them. He liked me. I got along great with him.

[It’s a good thing he warned Isaiah that his “answer” was going to be long since he was asked about the auto industry and went off on the topic of nuclear weapons. Strap on your seat belt, Isaiah. It’s gonna be a wild ride!]

“And he has a lot of nuclear force. But you essentially have five countries and you’re going to have more whether you like it or not. You’re going to have more. It’s a single biggest threat to the world, not only Michigan, to the world. And you’re not going to care so much about making cars if that stuff starts happening. And we have people that are not good at negotiation. The war should have never happened.

[Just a wild guess, but I assume he’s leapt from what he was supposed to be talking about (cars) to nuclear weapons, and now to the Ukraine war? Or maybe it’s the war in Gaza? Sudan, Syria, Ethiopia? Not sure.]

“President Biden, I want to be nice. He was so nice to me yesterday. But, you know, in one way, I sort of wish the call wasn’t made because I do feel he’s so, so nice.

[Ok, so Biden was nice, but what call was he talking about and why did he wish it wasn’t made? Unclear, at least to me.]

I’m so sorry about what happened and all that. But I have to lay it out. We have very important the same with Kamala today. She could not have been nicer. But the fact is, the fact is we have to have people that are respected by the opponent to by the other side, by other countries that have this.

“Even Pakistan has nuclear war. We have we have countries. India has a lot of nuclear force. We have countries that have tremendous nuclear power. And when I hear these people talking about global warming, that’s the global warming you have to worry about. Not that the ocean is going to rise in 400 years, an eighth of an inch and you have more seafront property. Right. If that happens, I said, is that good or bad? I said, isn’t that a good thing? If I have a little property on the ocean, I have a little bit more property. I have a little bit more ocean.

[Ok, now my head officially hurts. He jumps from Biden and Harris back to nuclear war and then to global warming, which he says is a “good thing”? The ocean is going to rise an 1/8^th of an inch in 400 years? I think his info on that might be a tad off. But let’s let that slide for now. Is it just me, but how does the ocean’s rise INCREASE the size of his ocean front property? But then he jumps from “seafront property” to sounding like he actually believes he has “property on the ocean,” i.e., he owns some of it? I guess if anyone can own some sea, or think he does, it would be him!]

“But the fact is that it’s a it’s a tremendous problem. And we are closer to World War three today than we’ve ever been. And the difference is and I say this a lot. This isn’t army tanks going back and forth and shooting at each other. This is obliteration, the power of these weapons. And I’m the one that revived it. And I hated to do it. But, you know, we had stuff that was 48 years old. They didn’t even know if it worked. We have incredible stuff. So does Russia. China has much less, but they’re going to catch up over four or five years. It’s the single biggest threat by far to civilization. And nobody talks about it.”

[Does he mean that nobody talks about the threat of nuclear war? ‘Cuz I think I might have heard a few people talking about it recently.

And they say Biden has no idea what he’s saying and Harris has no policies! I know he claims it’s brilliance and not rambling, but if you can help me follow his word salad and draw semi-logical lines between topics, I’d appreciate it.

To be fair, Trump did mention cars once: “…you’re not going to care so much about making cars if that stuff starts happening.” I wonder how Isaiah felt about the “answer” he got.

So, what do you think?]