While addressing a campaign event in Wisconsin, Donald Trump was criticized for making several misleading statements and assumptions about the forgiveness of student loans.
"You know, remember their promise to, you know, the education is going to get rid of the student loans. That didn't work out too well," Trump made the statement.
"And for the students out there...They didn't get it. They said they were going to get it, but I get what we want. I get 100% of what we want," he added.
Critics of Trump ridiculed the 78-year-old's disorganized comments as the video went viral on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Just one user mentioned, "Translation, please."
Another one wrote, "Holy Dementia Word Salad. Imagine if [Joe] Biden spewed out his words like this with a broken brain—there would be days of stories ... he is doing this constantly in the past few months."
In response to another critic, "It’s hard to keep track of what he’s trying to say sometimes. Sounds like he’s more focused on claiming victories than addressing the real issues people are facing."
Someone else made a joke, "I like that you could just type out any jumble of random, disconnected words, and it would accidentally be a completely accurate transcription of something he’s actually said in the past 6 months."
Some people thought his statements regarding student loan forgiveness were not true.
A single participant provided feedback, "My son got his student loan forgiven, so did a friend of mine. So that’s a lie," along with an additional one, "It's so easily proven. Millions of us got large amounts of student debt wiped out! FACTS!"
At a rally in Michigan about a month ago, Trump boasted about using "highly sophisticated" language, EconoTimes reported.
"These people are just so destructive, so— I always look for good words ... and I'm highly educated. I like sophisticated words. There's only one word I get — that's stupid. Stupid people," It was his way of telling the audience.
Also, as per OK! Magazine, Trump's assertion that the media misunderstands his insightful remarks for meaningless babbling got him derided.
"The fake news likes to say, 'Oh, he was rambling.' No, no, that's not rambling. That's genius when you can connect the dots. Every dot was connected and many stories were told in that little paragraph. They say, 'Oh no, he rambles.' What the h--- are all you people showing up for if I ramble? You don't want to show up for a rambler!" he said.
Meanwhile, Trump previously denounced President Biden's promises to eliminate student loans as "vile" during a campaign event earlier this year, Forbes reported. He even hinted that such plans could be scrapped upon his return to the White House.
At a campaign speech in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Trump criticized Biden for his tuition programs, saying, "That didn't work out too well, he got rebuked." Trump was probably referring to Biden's student loan forgiveness scheme, which was rejected by the Supreme Court this summer.
When Biden did it again—this time with tuition—Trump stated that he would be even more censured since it was an even more disgusting attack—but that he had done it for electoral publicity purposes only. A number of loan forgiveness programs had been introduced by the Biden administration to help student loan borrowers, thus it is unclear to what policy Trump was addressing.
However, the fact that Trump has implied that Biden's measures to alleviate student debt will be "rebuked" is indicative of the widespread Republican-led attempts to undermine these initiatives in legislative and court proceedings. If Trump wins the presidency in November, his government may go even further in its efforts to undermine or eliminate various programs that erase student loans.
