If Biden was Disqualified, Surely Trump Should Be

   They pressured Joe Biden off the ticket for perhaps much less. Word salad, as they call it. It's a term used to describe a confused, incoherent rambling. Word salads are especially common in some elderly people with certain mental health conditions or neurological disorders. Does Joe Biden come to mind? 

   Now then, what about Trump? Listen to what he said this week when asked, “If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable, and, if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?”

   "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."

   We can guess the basic message he was attempting to convey: Child care is expensive, but the U.S. will be able to pay for it as a result of his proposed tariffs, since they will take in more money than what child care costs. But what a rambling, confusing word salad he used while trying to explain what he would do with child care. 

   Joe's senior moment got him discharged from running for president. Shouldn't we hold Trump to the same standard?