To the editor:

If elected, what specific legislation would Donald Trump seek to pass to lower childcare costs in America? Trump was asked this question at an Economic Club of New York event on Thursday. Here is his response, word for word:

Well, I would do that. And we’re sitting down – you know, I was – somebody we had, Sen. 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, look, childcare is childcare, it couldn’t – you know, 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 gonna take care. We’re gonna 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 gonna 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.

So in his brilliant mind, “Childcare is childcare.” WOW!! How eloquent. Reminder: It’s Kamala Harris who’s supposedly this race’s word-salad candidate. But this is the kind of incoherent blather we have been hearing from Trump for the past eight years. Why does he get a pass? Surely there are candidates who can actually put a few words together to convey a complete thought. A two-year-old communicates more effectively than this overrated – as well as OLD – man-child. He definitely has a lot of words, as he bragged back in 2016 ... he just doesn’t have a clue what to do with them.

Sharon McGinness

Larned