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Presidential demeanor?

“If your father or grandfather behaved like Trump you would be taking away the car keys not handing him the nuclear codes,“ Robert Reich, economist and former Secretary of Labor speaking of Trump’s erratic behavior and mental confusion.

If Trump was your brother-in-law, you would hope he didn’t come to the holiday family gatherings. You wouldn’t want to work for him given his history of stiffing his employees and contractors. He has been caught running fraudulent charities. You certainly wouldn’t leave him alone with your daughter.

So why do you think he should be president?

“Protecting Students from the Radical Left and Marxist Maniacs Infecting Educational Institutions”

This item is from Trump’s Agenda47 platform (donaldjtrump.com/agenda47). It says, ”President Trump has pledged to fire the radical Left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics.” He grandiosely claims he will restore “real standards on American colleges and universities, to include defending the American tradition and Western civilization...”

Trump’s educational “expertise” consists of running “Trump university,” which was a fraudulent, for-profit diploma mill, about how to make money flipping real estate.

“Accreditation” is the process of evaluating the quality of higher education institutions. College and university accreditation organizations are private, nonprofit organizations. As president, Trump would have no authority to “fire” their staff or interfere with their operations.

Does this sound like insightful, well informed, rational proposals to improve education in America? Or is it the unhinged ranting of an ignorant demagogue?

More incoherent, empty talk

“Donald Trump...operates under the assumption that he can simply talk his way out of any situation,“ writes Philip Bump, a political columnist for the Washington Post. As a salesman “he learned to say whatever he needed to close a deal and then...to clean up the mess from the promises he made...”

Recently Trump was asked about his thoughts on making child care affordable. Philip Bump quoted Trump’s entire verbatim answer in the Washington Post. Here it is.

“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down – you know, I was, uh, somebody, we had Sen. Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka, was so, uh, 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 child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t – you know, it’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 child care, that it’s gonna take care. We’re gonna have – I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time. Coupled with, uh, 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 say with child care, I want to stay with child care, 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, uh, that I just told you about. We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care 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 gonna 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. Very good question.”

Did you understand what he said? Is Trump showing signs of dementia? Or is he just dumber than a rock? Perhaps a president should be able to intelligently and coherently answer a question on an important national issue.