Letter in the NYT – thanks to Mike C.
At a town hall event in Michigan on Friday, Donald Trump was asked what actions he would take to keep autoworkers’ jobs in America.
Here is part of Mr Trump’s answer verbatim:
“So pretty much, as we’ve been saying — and what I want to do is, I want to be able to — look your business. Years ago in this area, I was honored as the Man of the Year. Was maybe 20 years ago, and the fake news heard about it. They said, ‘It never happened. It never happened.’ And I didn’t know who it was. It was a group that honored me as Man of the Year. The fakers back there — see the fake news — but they said, they said, Oh. And they looked at it, you know, they said it never happened. But I said, ‘I swear to you, it happened. It did happen.’
“I was Man of the Year, and I came and I made a speech and said, ‘Why do you allow them to take your car business away? Why do you allow it to happen? They’re taking your business away.’ And I didn’t know too much about — all I know is they were taking your car industry away from you. They said it never happened, and lo and behold, somebody said, ‘I remember the event,’ and then we found out, and we had everything. We got the awards. We had everything. It did happen, but I gave a speech, which at the time was pretty controversial …”
The level of incoherence and repetitive speech in Mr. Trump’s answer, given his age and family history (Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., died eight years after his own Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 1999), should be profoundly concerning, yet his mental state remains the Thing That Must Not Be Named of the 2024 campaign as far as corporate media are concerned.
Continue to ignore the elephant in the room if you like, but the elephant isn’t going anywhere. Mr. Trump is in bad shape.
Bryan Fichter
Ellicott City, Md.