Speechifying As Only Donnie Can

While JD Vance was slickly sidestepping questions at last night’s debate, Donnie was speechifying as only he can in Milwaukee. Donnie’s ostensible topic was that GOP chestnut “School Choice”. Signs behind his podium read “Education Freedom Now”, “Let Parents Decide”, and “What Did Public Schools Ever Do For You?”. Actually, not the last one.

Donnie gave his typical well-thought-out concept of what his Federal Department of Education would be. “”I think you will have one person plus a secretary. And all that person has to do is ask: “Are you teaching English? Are you teaching arithmetic? Reading, writing, and arithmetic. And are you NOT teaching woke? Not teaching woke is a very big factor. We will have a very small staff.”

Under “Trump II, The Sequel” then, Pell grants and other federal college student aid will disappear as will that complicated FAFSA. Colleges will have no basis to determine student financial aid. The GI Bill will become history. “Sorry, sucker and loser veteran. You’ll have to pay your own way to school.”

Donnie soon abandoned boring education to riff on his classic themes:

“Migrants streaming across our southern border are coming from the Congo in Africa! Many people from the Congo. They are taking jobs from Black and Hispanic Americans!” Apparently, voters are not sufficiently frightened by drug-smuggling Central American gang members or pet-eating Haitians any more. Let’s up the ante to Black Africans.

“I could settle the conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine with a single phone call apiece. I don’t want to say what I would say in those phone calls because I don’t want to give up my negotiating abilities. Anyway, none of them would have happened if I was president!” There are a lot of suffering, bombed-out innocent people in those places who would give you their phones for those magic calls, Donnie. Of course, wild candidate promises sometimes get them elected. Nixon’s Secret Plan to End the Vietnam War got him elected in ’68. Maybe the Magic Phone Call will work for you.

“Kamala and the radical Left Democrat Party want to keep Black and Hispanic children trapped in family government.” Say what? I’m not sure what “family government” is, but it sounds more personal and caring than “corporate government”.

Riff on, Donnie.

By Ed Dufton