Cable Hosts Try to Decipher Trump’s ‘Absolute Word Salad’ on Childcare

Donald Trump’s vague, meandering answer to a question about what—if any—legislation he would support to lower child care costs drew considerable attention Wednesday night on the three major cable news networks, including on CNN, where anchor Anderson Cooper called the former president’s response an “absolute word salad.”

Meanwhile, on MSNBC’s All In, anchor Chris Hayes played the entirety of Trump’s answer, which included no mention of any legislation, but rather the incoherent statement that he “want[s] to stay with child care.” Trump’s comment was his final one during the question-and-answer session at an appearance at the Economic Club of New York.

“If you win in November,” Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, asked the former president, “can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make childcare affordable, and, if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?”

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