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Trump unhappy with the $50bn aid package to Ukraine that was recently approved by the Biden administration
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At a rally in Detroit on Saturday, Donald Trump once again complained about US support for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia and described Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as “the greatest salesman of all time.”
The former president made it clear that he was not happy with the $50bn aid package for Ukraine, recently approved by the Biden administration. “It never ends,” he told supporters in Michigan.
Trump also suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test” – only to immediately confuse who administered the test to him, referring to Texas Republican Representative Ronny Jackson, who was White House physician during his presidency, as “Ronny Johnson.”
“He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did,” Trump said as he headlined the conservative Turning Point Action convention in Detroit.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump hosted a roundtable discussion with members of the community at the 180 Church in downtown Detroit, which serves a predominantly Black congregation.
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Donald Trump suggested that Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence.
During a rally in Michigan on Saturday, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee referred to Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was the White House physician for part of his presidency, as “Ronny Johnson.”
The moment came as Trump was questioning Biden’s mental acuity, something he has done often on the campaign trail and social media.
“He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did,” the former president said of Biden during a speech at a convention of Turning Point Action in Detroit.
Trump took the cognitive test in 2018 at his own request, Jackson told reporters at the time. The exam is designed to detect early signs of memory loss and other mild cognitive impairment.
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Donald Trump spoke at a meeting of major CEOs as part of his return to Washington, DC on Thursday as the assumed Republican candidate for president.
CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reports that his remarks didn’t exactly hit home with the business leaders.
Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” Sorkin said on Friday morning edition of Squawk Box.
He added that the same CEOs struck by Trump’s lack of focus “walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction”.
“These were people who I think might have been actually predisposed to [Trump, but] actually walked out of the room less predisposed” to him, Sorkin said.
One CEO who spoke to CNBC said “Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about” and that he did not explain any of his policy proposals.
Sorkin told MSNBC’s Morning Joe later on Friday morning that at one point Trump discussed his plan to bring the corporate tax rate down from 21 per cent to 20 per cent … and was asked about why he had chosen that number.
“And he said, ‘Well, it’s a round number,” Sorkin reported. “That unto itself had a number of CEOs shaking their heads.”
Trump was reportedly subdued in the meeting and there was no noticeable applause from attendees according to two people. One speculated that a low-key approach may have been an attempt to make the event feel “more like a business meeting than a speech”.
CNBC reached out to the Trump campaign but did not receive any comment.
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During a speech at a convention of Turning Point Action in Detroit Donald Trump complained about the scale of US support for Ukraine and once again suggested Joe Biden should take a ‘cognitive test’
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