Day 936: Among other ludicrous lies, Trump tells energy workers that ‘wind power causes TVs to stop working if the wind stops’

Tuesday’s visit to an energy plant was bizarre, even by Trump standards.

Donald Trump went to a Shell petrochemicals plant outside of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, for what was supposed to be a non-political speech. It very quickly went way off script.

But the hourlong address was light on energy policy and heavy on stump speech material and off-script riffs, as Trump touched on everything from his love of trucks to his assessment of his potential 2020 rivals. The meandering speech came on a day when the president had already attacked a CNN anchor, endorsed a controversial World Series hero’s potential congressional bid and defended his parroting of a conspiracy theory concerning the apparent suicide of his onetime friend Jeffrey Epstein.

He incorrectly told attendees that wind power was a terrible form of energy because if the wind stopped, electronic devices would cease to work.

He got political and racist.

He went on and on about his love for trucks.

He ignored math and reality by claiming that legal fees, among other things, are costing him billions of dollars a year.

He butchered the time by almost four hours.

He talked about the Academy Awards and their TV ratings.

He remained oddly obsessed with hand size and appearance.

And he was incredibly impressed by a small slab of concrete.

Notably absent from his speech was nearly anything factual about actual energy policies. For any other president, the speech would by a moment where the world wondered what the hell was going on in Pennsylvania. National news would cover the strangeness non-stop for days and ask questions about mental health or fitness for the job. For Trump, it’s just another Tuesday.

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