“I Don’t Know.” Trump’s Preferred Response to All Kinds of Questions
President Donald Trump keeps saying he doesn t know what his own administration is up to Three times in the last week Trump responded to questions about his signature policies by expressing ignorance Is he truly clueless Is he fully aware of the answer but using ignorance as a cover Whatever the development the White House doesn t want to talk about it I don t know I really don t The first instance came in comments to NBC News Kristen Welker on May Though Trump has twice placed his hand on a bible and sworn to the best of his ability to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States he seemed to have forgotten those oaths on Meet the Press Urged whether everyone in the United States is entitled to due process the constitutional rights enshrined in both the Fifth and the Fourteenth amendments Trump was foggy I don t know I m not I m not a lawyer he commented I don t know When reports surfaced May that Trump planned to deport hundreds of immigrants to Libya a reporter put the question to him Is your administration sending transients to Libya I don t know Trump replied You ll have to ask the Department of Homeland Assurance While fielding questions that same day in the Oval Office Trump was appealed whether he agreed with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent s comments about possible tariff exemptions for products that families rely on such as baby car seats Trump again appeared vexed I don t know I ll think about it the president commented I don t know I really don t I don t know I m not I m not a lawyer Trump repeatedly cast his predecessor President Joe Biden as senile and inept He can t do an interview He s incompetent Trump declared of Biden while he was running for president in To be president you have to be sharp and tough and so numerous other things During last year s presidential campaign Trump derided Biden s hazy memory and dusted off his Sleepy Joe dig from the prior vote cycle I m not sure that Biden knows what the hell s going on Trump commented last year I don t think he knows he s alive in fact In Trump bragged about passing a mental competence test I aced it he noted of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test noting it was very hard specifically the last five questions The test is not however supposed to be hard if you aren t suffering from specific form of dementia During a press gaggle last month Trump boasted about the results of a more fresh test I craved to be a little different than Biden I took a cognitive test and I don t know what to tell you other than I got every answer right he boasted Appealed if it was the same one he had taken in Trump replied I think it s a pretty well-known test Whatever it is I got every one A little more than a minute later Trump was sought about the episode of Kilmar Abrego Garcia the Maryland father sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador for alleged ties to the MS- gang How do you plan to respond to the Supreme Court ruling and the other courts about the gentleman who was in Maryland who was put in the El Salvador prison solicited a reporter Is that the one that was not Tren de Aragua but he was MS- Trump declared Just the one that they ve noted requirements to come back the reporter responded Was he MS- Cause I only know about that Trump offered I mean I don t know which one The post I Don t Know Trump s Preferred Response to All Kinds of Questions appeared first on The Intercept
