I know what Trump was really talking about in his child care rant, and it's even scarier than you thought [View all]

An incoherent rant Donald Trump delivered at an appearance Thursday in answering a question about child care policy has gone viral, mostly because it reached new heights of incoherence, even for him.

But what commentators and viewers have missed is the tiny nugget of actual fact nestled within Trump’s 374 words of absolute gibberish. That’s too bad, because that nugget makes his answer even dumber, and scarier, than you might have imagined.

Here’s how he launched into the topic at the Economic Club of New York, when asked by attendee Reshma Saujani, a Democratic children’s advocate, if he would commit to making child care more affordable and what “specific piece of legislation” he would advance as president to do so:

“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, and I was, 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, look, child care is child care is. Couldn’t, you know, there’s something, you have to have it — in this country you have to have it.”

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-09-06/i-know-what-trump-was-really-talking-about-in-his-child-care-rant-and-its-even-dumber-than-you-thought

Summary: Rubio's and Ivanka's 12 week paid family leave plan would delay the worker's ability to receive Social Security benefits by twice that time. It would be a Republican stealth attack on Social Security.