Is That Your Final Answer?

lol but but but he meant cutting the waste part of social security and medicare!!! #cleanuponaislegrandpadon https://t.co/agsb6rx8ab

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 11, 2024

Fair enough; here’s the rest of Trump’s answer, per the transcript:

"There’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do. So I don’t necessarily agree with the statement. I know that they’re going to end up weakening social security because the country is weak. And let’s take a look at outside of the stock market, are, we’re going through hell. People are going through hell. If they have and I believe the number is 50%. They say 32 and 33%. I believe we have a cumulative inflation of over 50%, that means people are, you know, they have to make more than 50% more over a fairly short period of time to stay up. They’ve gotten routed. The middle class in our country has been routed and the middle class largely built our country and they have been treated very, very badly with policy.”

So, something about “tremendous amounts and numbers of things” Can he name three? Even one? Can he feign coherence? Was he finished? No:

TRUMP: “So first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements, tremendous bad management of entitlements.” "There’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do. So I don’t necessarily agree with the statement. I know that they’re going to end up weakening social security because the country is weak. And let’s take a look at outside of the stock market, are, we’re going through hell. People are going through hell. If they have and I believe the number is 50%. They say 32 and 33%. I believe we have a cumulative inflation of over 50%, that means people are, you know, they have to make more than 50% more over a fairly short period of time to stay up. They’ve gotten routed. The middle class in our country has been routed and the middle class largely built our country and they have been treated very, very badly with policy.”

Yes, that’s the complete answer you asked for. Happy now? And the “incomplete” answer to the question was here:

Trump: There is a lot you can do in terms of cutting Social Security and Medicare pic.twitter.com/wYb19U2u8p

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 11, 2024

I think you should quit while you’re ahead.