The Washington Post reported on Wednesday about a remarkable exchange that presidential candidate Donald Trump had with a ten-year-old boy named Adam at a townhall in New Hampshire.
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Donald Trump has joined the chorus of presidential candidates reacting to anti-racism protests at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), which culminated this week with the resignation of both the university’s president and chancellor. But Trump’s speech also drew many of his supporters, creating the largest crowd in the program’s history and requiring organizers to move the event to a hotel in Manchester for more space. Trump said he was going to look drug clinics and tied the epidemic to one of his signature issues – securing the border.
“A Trump/Christie ticket certainly wouldn’t be tiresome, but I don’t think it’s a reality at all, but I do think it signals that of the other candidates Trump does have a pretty good relationship with Gov. Christie”, Hale said.
Probably realizing he’d plowed over the boy’s dreams like a pothole-repairing steamroller, Trump observed, “You love it, I can see, right?” “We are not playing games”.
“We need really tough, smart people or we’re not going to have a country left”, he said. “People get hooked, unknowingly”.
“For Donald Trump it’s easy to be magnanimous when you’re in the lead and you talk about, ‘Oh sure, I like this person”.
“Anywhere I go in New Hampshire we have thousands and thousands of people, and I say it’s like a movement”, Trump said. “I think it’s wonderful”.
“I happen to think the police are not being treated properly in this country… along with the vets, along with certain groups”, Trump stated.
This was not Trump’s typical audience.
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His back-to-back events – a live town hall meeting broadcast on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and an appearance at Politics and Eggs, which is sponsored by the New England Council – came several hours after the fourth Republican presidential debate concluded. Attendees sit at white tablecloths and have a nice meal amid wooden eggs that the candidates are supposed to sign.
