On September 5, former President Donald Trump presented a disjointed and rambling childcare plan during a speech at The Economic Club of New York. Responding to a question from Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, about making childcare more affordable, Trump’s nearly two-minute-long answer was filled with vague and incoherent statements. His plan included perplexing remarks like, “But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that—because look, child care is childcare, it’s—couldn’t, you know, it’s something, you have to have it, in this country, you have to have it.” told by Yahoo.
Trump’s garbled response quickly became the subject of social media ridicule. Here are some of the most amusing reactions:
- The “Body Language” Meme: One user compared Trump’s erratic hand gestures and facial expressions during his response to his actual statements. The caption read, “There’s no difference between the answer he just gave and whatever this was.”
- King of Word Salad: An X user mocked Trump’s lengthy and unclear answer by dubbing him the ‘King of Word Salad,’ featuring an AI-generated image of Trump sitting with a large bowl of salad and the caption, “Trump is the King of Word salad. Nobody does salad better.”
- Cognitive Dissonance: Another meme highlighted the irony of Trump’s remarks about President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities, juxtaposed with his own confusing statements. The caption read, “And he said Joe was losing it?” accompanied by a GIF emphasizing the irony.
- Rambling Nonsense: A user criticized Trump’s 360-word response as “rambling nonsense,” illustrating their point with a GIF of ‘The Office’ character Michael Scott, played by Steve Carell, calling Trump an “idiot.”
- Low-Energy Word Salad: Another meme featured a GIF of Trump’s peculiar expressions with the commentary, “That was incoherent energy word salad is code for he doesn’t have a plan to make childcare more affordable.”
- Empty Promises: A user created a meme highlighting the lack of substance in Trump’s speech, using a GIF that read, “*THERE IS NO PLAN.” report from EruoNews.
Trump’s confusing childcare plan and the subsequent social media reaction underscore the challenges of delivering coherent policy proposals in the spotlight.
