Good Place to Park a Boat for the Winter

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

There have been a number of stories in the news lately discussing what some see as Donald Trump's apparent cognitive decline.  With Joe Biden leaving the presidential race in July before he could become the Democratic Party's official nominee, Donald Trump now holds the dubious distinction of being the oldest presidential candidate in our nation's history - and many are finally beginning to openly comment on the elderly candidate's lack of focus and tendency toward confusion when he speaks.

In fact, as often as not, Trump's rambling incoherence seems to overtake whatever topic he is supposed to be addressing. This week, following a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Trump was asked what specific legislation he would seek to lower the cost of child care for working families - a good question on an important issue that begged an exact response.  But instead of a clear and concise answer, Trump coughed up this hairball:

"It's a very important issue.  But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers I'm talking about, that, because, look, child care is child care.  It's something you know 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 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 products into our country."

When reporting the story of Trump's plans for child care or tariffs (take your pick), some journalists tried to translate his gibberish into an understandable response - while others accused  the first group of "sane-washing" what Trump had said.

But gibberish from Donald Trump is like lava from an active volcano - it just keeps flowing.

Earlier in the week Trump held a rally in Potterville, Michigan.   The complete transcript of his speech at the rally is available on the internet, but the following segment, which is fairly representative of the speech as a whole, has been popping up extensively on social media.  In it Trump's "train" of thought appears to be more akin bo "bumper cars" of thought.  The bard of Mar-a-lago had this to say about his opponent in November - at least it started out being about his opponent:

"She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it's - and I own a big building there - it's no - I shouldn't talk about this but that's OK I don't give a damn because this is what I'm doing.  I should say it's the finest city in the world - sell and get the hell out of there, right?   But I can't do that.  I don't care, you know?   I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars.   You know, somebody said, 'What do you think you lost?'  I said, 'Probably two, three billion.  That's OK, I don't care.'  They say, 'You think you'd do it again?'  And that's the least of it.  Nobody.  They always say, I don't know if you know.  Lincoln was horribly treated.  Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly.  Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president.  I said, 'Do that study again, because I think there's nobody close to Trump.'  I even got shot!  And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"

Sherlock Holmes would have trouble finding a clue in that mental mess!

If you happen to be looking for a big empty place to store a boat for the winter, there might be space available in . . . well . . .  never mind.  I won't go there!