-Donald Trump was asked at a town hall on Tuesday how he would save manufacturing jobs and bring down grocery prices, and he gave a series of incoherent answers that make clear he has no idea and doesn't care. For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look. " [ Cheers and applause ] The further Trump falls in the polls, the further he sinks into conspiracy theories.
And if the trend continues, he's really gonna lose his [bleep] when he sees the latest polling in Pennsylvania. -New poll numbers show Vice President Kamala Harris is leading in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The "USA Today" and Suffolk University polls show Harris leading former president Donald Trump 49% to 46%.
-We've mentioned the numbers from Quinnipiac, the idea that Harris is leading Trump in Pennsylvania and Michigan. Here are the exact figures. Harris 51% in Pennsylvania to Trump's 45%.
-Oh, my God, Trump's behind in Pennsylvania. Can you imagine what he's going to blurt out at his next rally? [ As Trump ] Gritty is a communist.
Everybody knows it. Look at his eyes. He's a meth addict and a communist.
And many people are telling me it's so true. [ Normal voice ] Now, we all know the caveats here. These are just isolated polls.
The polls are just snapshots, and they can easily change. But try telling that to Donald Trump, a man with so much rage and so little impulse control, he scream-tweeted, "I hate Taylor Swift," in all caps, like his older sister was blasting "Midnights through his bedroom wall. "Turn that down, Kayleigh.
I'm trying to play Minecraft. And I do not care to hear about the dating mishaps of your beloved Tay-Tay. " Of course, nothing will ever trigger Trump as much as Kamala Harris saying people leave his rallies because they're boring.
That's the comment that infamously set him off at the debate, and he brought it up again out of nowhere at a town hall last night. -So we do these rallies. They're massive rallies.
Everybody loves -- Everybody stays till the end, by the way. You know, when she said that, "Well, your rallies, people leave. " Honestly, nobody does, and if I saw them leaving, I'd say, "And, ladies and gentlemen, make America great again," and I'd get the hell out, okay?
Because I don't want people leaving. -That's right. People don't leave his rallies.
A soaring message that was unfortunately lost on the people who left that exact rally. Trump's so insane, he's getting fact-checked by his own supporters in real time. Next time he says Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man, they're going to cut to Hannibal Lecter in the crowd holding a sign that says, "Actually I'm a bad guy.
" Every time his political fortunes take a turn for the worse, Trump sinks deeper into rage and conspiracy theories, and he surrounds himself with weirdo cultists who make him feel better, like Laura Loomer, a right-wing Internet troll who, among other insane things, once promoted a video that said 9/11 was an inside job. Even Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Marjorie Taylor Greene were mad at Trump for spending time with Loomer. In fact, Trump even brought Loomer to a 9/11 remembrance ceremony.
That's like bringing someone who thinks the moon landing was faked to Cape Canaveral. "Next up on the tour is the U. S.
Astronaut Hall of Fame. " "When are you going to show us the green screen? " "The what?
" "The green screen," where you faked it all. " You could just feel the desperation radiating off Trump. At a rally over the weekend, he insisted Kamala Harris must have had an earpiece feeding her answers at the debate.
-She can't talk. She can't talk. [ Crowd shouting ] She can't talk without maybe getting the answers.
What's the story with that? Did she get the questions? You think?
So I hear she got the questions. And I also heard she had something in the ear, little something in the ear. "No, Kamala.
Do this. Say it this way, Kamala. Okay.
Be quiet. Too many people watching. " -For what it's worth, if Harris did have people in her ear screaming, "No, Kamala.
Do this. Say it this way, Kamala. Okay.
Be quiet. Too many people watching," and still managed to kick your ass, I wouldn't be telling us about it. If anything, watching that debate -- If anything, watching that debate, I'd believe you were wearing an earpiece that was just playing this on a loop.
-♪ Who let the dogs out ♪ -♪ Who, who, who, who, who ♪ -In Trump's mind, the only way anyone could ever coherently answer questions about policy on the fly is if they're getting fed the answers in real time. That says a lot more about you than it does about her. [ As Trump ] The clarity of her answers was very suspicious to me, because let me tell you, if they asked me those questions, I would have had no [bleep] idea what to say.
I wouldn't -- I wouldn't even know where to start. I mean, you saw me at the debate, right? I mean, look at my eyes.
I am just gone. There is nothing. I look like a goldfish when you don't clean the bowl for a week.
[ Normal voice ] But that's the MAGA movement's whole thing -- projection. They insist, without any hint of self-awareness, that Harris is the one who can't answer questions about policy. -She may not be capable of uttering a clear, coherent policy position, but whatever the reason, the more we get these words salads, the more obvious it is that she either doesn't know what she's saying or she can't articulate it or she's trying to hide.
If you just watch her, it's the same stuff over and over, the things she's memorized, has nothing to do with the real world. -That's Newt Gingrich, who you may remember from that time he played the moon in a silent film. Now, it would be easy for me to dunk on Newt here by listing off all the deranged and incoherent things Donald Trump has said over the years, but we don't have enough time.
Well, actually, I did have the time. It was the last 10 years. I've been doing that for 10 years.
And that is time I will never get back. But if I tried to list every demented thing Donald Trump has ever said right now, I would still be here when the "Today" show starts. They'd have to put me in a little box in the corner of the screen.
So here's just a quick montage of some of my favorite Trump policy answers, because, you know, why not? -Their windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before. The windmills are driving them crazy.
They're driving -- They're driving the whales, I think, a little batty. The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man. Sinks, toilets, and showers.
Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? This is Tic Tac.
This is Tic Tac. They're eating the dogs. The great Pavarotti, the singer, when -- You know, he's a very -- He was a diva.
He was the greatest of all divas. The greatest, right? Pavarotti.
But he was -- He liked me for whatever reason. He was very terrible to other people. To me, he was nice.
He liked me. -That's a nice way to pay a guy back for being nice to you. [ As Trump ] Pavarotti, always nice to me, which is notable, 'cause he was a flaming-hot ass[bleep] Just -- Just a piece of [bleep] to other people.
And yet, to me, a gentleman. [ Normal voice ] In fairness to Trump, recent polls have found that the top three policy concerns among voters are. .
. So MAGA wants you to believe that Kamala Harris is the one who can't talk coherently about policy. Trump, on the other hand, is a policy expert.
Here he is last night, being asked a simple question by a supporter at a town hall -- How will he protect manufacturing jobs? Now, there's all kinds of issues he could discuss here -- outsourcing competition from overseas predatory companies, using union-busting tactics to exploit workers. Let's hear what Donald Trump thinks is the number-one threat to manufacturing jobs.
-My question to you, sir, is, what do you see as the major threats to the future of Michigan manufacturing auto working jobs? And what will you do to eliminate those threats, sir? -Okay, so I'll get into another little bit of a long answer, because when you say major threat, to me, we have one really major threat.
That's called nuclear weapons. -What are you talking about? The number-one threat to manufacturing jobs is nuclear weapons?
Okay, in that case, the number-one threat to the New York Giants is nuclear weapons. Oh, sure, it's easy to blame roster construction and play calling, but they drop a nuke on MetLife, the season is over. I think what happened here is Trump wasn't paying attention to the question because he doesn't care.
And the only word he heard was "threats. " When Trump takes a question from a voter, this is how it actually sounds in his brain. -[ Distorted speaking ] Major threats.
[ Distorted speaking ] -Taylor Swift. -Taylor Swift. -Taylor Swift.
-Taylor Swift. -Taylor Swift. -Taylor Swift.
-Taylor Swift. -Taylor Swift. -♪ Who let the dogs out ♪ -But it's not like -- Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] But it's not like Trump just happened to mention nuclear weapons, then switched back to the main topic. He kept going. Again, this question was about manufacturing jobs.
-To me, we have one really major threat. That's called nuclear weapons. We called -- We have other countries that are hostile to us.
They don't have to be hostile to us. I always say, if you have a smart president, you'll never have a problem with China, Russia, or any of them, okay? I got along great with Putin.
I got along great with President Xi. I got along great with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Everybody said, "Oh, you can't get along with him.
" He liked me. I got along great with him. And he has a lot of nuclear force.
[ As Trump ] Kim Jong Un, he's a bad guy who's nice to me, a real Korean Pavarotti. [ Normal voice ] The same thing happened with grocery prices, arguably the most important issue in the campaign, the one Trump constantly pretends to care about. It's fair to say that inflation has been a major concern for voters over the last four years, and it's also fair to ask how you would address that concern.
He should have an answer for this. This should be a slam dunk. Instead, here's the word vomit he belched up.
Now, this clip is long, but we're going to try to play as much of it as we can. And while I wait for Trump to finally get to a real answer, I'm going to try, for the first time in my life -- wish me luck -- to teach myself how to solve a Rubik's Cube. -My name is Barbara.
I'm a mom of three, a grandmother of seven, and three great-grands. A registered nurse, retired. Retired nurse.
So I know the cost that goes into raising children and running a household. -Yeah. -People just can't survive now.
How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries? -Good. Very good.
Thank you. So we have to start always with energy. Always -- I don't want to be boring about it, but there's no bigger subject.
It covers everything. If you make doughnuts, if you make cars, whatever you make, energy is a big deal. You'll see they'll do the rate cut and all the political stuff tomorrow, I think.
And, you know, "Will he do a half a point? Will he do a quarter of a point? " And, you know, one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country.
And I don't know if you remember -- I love the farmers because, you know, I had many meetings as president. I have this gorgeous room with this beautiful table that seats about 35 people. I said, "Look, fellas, we're going to get you such a beautiful subsidy.
" Everyone wants -- They want money. They want to build windmills. "We want money.
" These windmills. Ay-yi-yi. I said, "Nobody's ever said that.
" And they have many industries and many groups of people from different things, you know, they do all different things. It's probably the most dramatic I've ever seen. He didn't want anything.
All he wanted was to be able to compete fairly. [ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ] -I also had time to whittle one out of wood. Seriously, what are you talking about?
We'd get a more coherent answer if we took a bunch of Scrabble letters, dumped them into a bingo cage, picked them out at random, translated from English to French and French to German, then back to English, then recorded them on a VHS and played the tape backward. I'm honestly in awe of the fact that he can talk that long without making any sense whatsoever. I can't even pretend to be him for that long.
Here, I'll try it. [ As Trump ] Look, it's very simple. Grocery prices are going up, due in large part to the massive disruptions to the supply chain caused by COVID and the predatory practices of large corporations.
[ Normal voice ] Oh wait. Sorry. That's the real answer.
Let me try again. [ As Trump ] Grocery prices because of energy causing windmills to attack, toilets flushing sharks down into the water next to the boats that have whales eating Tic Tacs. [ Normal voice ] Ah [bleep] I can't do it.
You guys, the reality is simple. Trump has no plan to save manufacturing jobs or lower food prices, and he doesn't care about manufacturing jobs and he doesn't care about food prices. From now on, when he answers these questions, he might as well just say.
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-♪ Out ♪ -This has been "A Closer Look.
