Trump delivers a strange speech in Baltimore during the democratic debate

While Democratic presidential candidates debated environmental politics, the role of racism in American society, access to health care and other issues on Thursday night in Houston, President Donald Trump delivered a speech at a Republican retreat in Baltimore. The contrast between the president and the Democrats competing for office is remarkable.

The clearest distinction may have come when Trump resurrected his fake tax cuts for the middle class, while Democrats had a detailed discussion on how to provide affordable health care to more people without significantly increasing taxes, just minutes apart.

"We are currently working on a tax break for middle-income people that will be very, very inspiring," he said. says Republicans in the House, raising an idea, he on the eve of mid-term elections last November, only to forget it as soon as it comes and goes. "I think that's what everyone is looking for. We will announce it sometime next year. "

Even though the tax systems proposed by the Democrats may be flawed, they are at least consistent. On the other hand, Trump offers sound clips that, in his opinion, will play well with the voters without apparently having the intention to follow them.

But Trump has a long history of this kind of thing. On Tuesday, for example, he promised that Republicans "will always protect patients with pre-existing illnesses," while he had enacted health care legislation that would have resulted in the loss of coverage for millions of people. Trump even made fun of the late Senator John McCain during his speech for voting against it.

It was the same as Trump's speech, which lasted more than an hour, during which he made a number of foolish and belittled statements. He began by bragging about the decision made by his government earlier in the day to repeal a rule of the Obama era meant to limit pollution in rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands. # 39; America. But soon after, he seemed to accidentally admit that such rules had helped the country's water to remain relatively clean.

"The Law on Water Sanitation has not provided you with clean water. By the way, today, we have the purest air, we have the purest water we have ever had in the history of our country, "said Trump, misrepresenting statements that contradict each other directly.

When he was not contradicting himself or partying, Trump offered hyperbolic commentary on MS-13 ("They take young women, they cut them with a knife, they cut them – beautiful, young."), Democratic candidates for the presidency ("They'll take your money, they'll take – and hurt a lot – your families.), And expressed his now familiar misunderstanding of wind energy."

"If you happen to watch the Democratic debate and the wind is not blowing, you will not see the debate …" this damn windmill has stopped! ", Did he declare.

Trump even targeted the city that hosted the Republican retreat of the House, to characterize Baltimore as a city that "has been destroyed by decades of failed and corrupt government". He concluded by promising a kind of major federal action Unless Los Angeles and San Francisco take quick action to eliminate homelessness.

The show was dark and sometimes brutal. The Republicans, as they have been doing most of the time since Trump became the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, have applauded.

Meanwhile, in Houston, the Democratic presidential candidates took a few punches and, of course, Trump – but they plunged themselves deep into the grass of the politicians and exposed their respective visions. an America where immigrants are treated with respect, the climate the crisis is taken seriously and health care demands are accompanied by concrete plans.

The difference could not have been clearer. Again, it was just as clear in 2016.

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