Chris Hayes Gobsmacked by Trump’s Rambling Response: ‘That’s the Quality of the Brains Right Now’
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes seemed in awe of a rambling, two-minute response by former President Donald Trump to a question about childcare.
Speaking at the Economic Club of New York, Trump was asked if he would “commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable.”
This was his full, unedited response to that question:
Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down — you know, 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, that — because the childcare is childcare — there’s something, you have to have it in this country. You have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that 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 from doing business with us, but they’ll 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, that it’s going to take care — we’re going to have, 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 and all of the other things that are going on in our country because I have to stay with childcare. I want to stay with childcare. But those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about — including growth — but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just told you about. We’re going to 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. 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. Let’s help other people, but we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about “Make America Great Again.” We have to do it because right now we’re a failing nation, so we’ll take care of it. Thank you.
[AUDIENCE CLAPS]
Hours later on All In, Hayes aired the full clip.
“They applaud at the end, the host said while cracking up and holding his arms out to the side. “He does the Simone Biles dismount. MAGA! Did you get all that? Remember, the question was, what specific piece of legislation will you advance to keep childcare costs down?”
Hayes then played a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris addressing childcare.
“Under my plan, more than 100 million Americans will get a tax cut and we will do this by restoring two tax cuts designed to help middle-class and working Americans,” she said in a speech last month in North Carolina. “The earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, through which millions of Americans with children got to keep more of their hard-earned income… So as president, I’ll not only restore that tax cut, but expand it. We will provide $6,000 in tax relief to families during the first year of a child’s life.”
“So, there you have it,” Hayes reacted. “A little bit of a contrast. Now, you know, in Trump’s defense, he was not on teleprompter. He was just riffing there. But, I don’t know, man. That’s the quality of the brains right now that we got over there.”
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