Babbling Like a Brook: When Will the Media Give Trump the Biden Treatment?

Looks like all those Republican accusations about Biden’s age and mental befuddlement were, as usual, confessions.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been in a war of words with Donald Trump. After Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops to Baltimore, calling it “crime-ridden,” Moore invited the president to “come walk the streets with us.” Trump responded with another threat, that he’d withhold funding to rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

A reporter asked him about that threat. This was Trump’s response:

No, we were very generous to him on a bridge. You know, a boat ran into a bridge, and the bridge came down, like, I’ve never seen anything – the boat was just, it just shows you the mass of that boat, the power of that boat. You know, people were up on that bridge, painters, they were painting the bridge and they were watching it happen, and they thought they were very safe – they all died. They were painting the bridge, can you imagine, and they watched the boat.

The engines were off and they watched the boat and the power of that boat, the mass of that boat went right through that steel, just like it was nothing. It’s amazing. It’s called mass, mass is a big deal. But the mass of that boat, those people all died, but they were, they thought they were totally safe.”

Two of them were eating their lunch, they were, you know, whatever, they were watching it, they could have gotten off. Somebody did a very good job, a police officer called in and said, “Close the bridge,” and he did it with power – “Get everybody off the bridge, close that.” That guy should get a medal because he stopped the bridge. A lot of people would have died, a lot more people would have died. The ones that died were the workers on the bridge, and they, they were just, they thought there was no danger because, you know, it’s a big steel bridge, and it came down like, like toothpicks. It was incredible to watch that. It was just, and they died, they all died.”

But that police officer, again, the police do a great job. The police officer did an amazing job and I heard the tapes. He would say, ‘Get everybody off.’ Most people wouldn’t have said that. You know, when you see a thing like that, you assume it’s going to, you know, tap the bridge and it’s going to be rebuffed. The thing just came down. I’ve never seen anything like it, so he did a good job.

In fact, I think we should get him in for a medal, the man that gave the warning. I listened to him – “everybody get off,” screaming, “everybody off.” He had the sense to realize that this could be a catastrophe as opposed to a ship, that because the engines weren’t working, it’s just floating. It’s an amazing thing that a thing floating like that with no power just knocked it right down like it was, like it was nothing. Let’s do that, let’s give him a medal. I’ve been thinking about it.”

Highlights mine.

It was 1 a.m. The workers weren’t painting anything, they were filling potholes. The closure of the bridge to traffic was the result of a chain of events, starting with the captain’s mayday call, not the decision of any one person.