Trump Will Cure Cancer and Alzheimer's--Sure You Will

 

Terre Haute Tribune Star, July 22, 2024

To the Editor:

I’m sure readers very much appreciated Mark Bennett’s Trib Star story, “Vigo’s GOP Delegates, others, assess Trump’s convention address,” July 20-21, 2024.

In these times, it’s more than a little scary to hear how different people hear the same political speech so differently. When possible, try reading the speech.

Vigo Republican Chair, Randy Gentry, seemed to hear, be to tuned into, a Trump speech that was soothing, a quietly delivered “chat,” a father talking to his kids. To him it carried no “wicked political attacks.” Gentry should read the transcript of the speech, reading past the first ten or fifteen minutes worth, taking some time thinking about it, and then report back to the citizens of Vigo County on Trump’s chat, and his “best speech I ever heard” initial evaluation.

Trump’s speech was filled with blood and gore to throw at Biden. (His source seems to be, literally, the movie “Silence of the Lambs”!) Time was spent on stoking fears of Russian subs with atomic weapons in close-by waters (Does he think he can talk to his buddy Putin about this?) and our nation’s skies being open to attack. (Build the dome! Remember build the wall?).

And then he fed the fear of cancer and Alzheimer's, two scourges to which he claims he will quickly find a cure. (No details and no NIH or FDA mentioned. The FDA is on his hit list. He called Dr. Fauci of NIH "a disaster." ) Trump was specific on stopping dementia in its tracks, and I quote: “We're so close to doing something great, but we need a leader that will let it be done. We will not have men playing in women's sports that will end dementia.”

All this and more wrapped in the usual bluster of he himself being the solution, the only solution, to what ails the United States in 2024. These ailments, of course, never touched us back in the day of MAGA’s “Great Again” chronology. (And just what “Again” day was that?).

A recent cartoon about the former president and convicted felon’s ninety-three minute speech gets it right. It pictures Trump operatives listening to the speech just off stage. They are showing relief, they happily agree, "The first few minutes were coherent, but he recovered nicely."

Gary Daily

Terre Haute, Indiana