Trump pulls a Biden

+ When asked at the Alligator Auschwitz press conference on July 1, if there was an expected timeline for how long detainees would be kept in the concentration camp in the swamp, “would it be days, weeks, months?” Trump rambled on incoherently about how long he will stay in Florida:

In Florida? I’m going to spend a lot in my home state. I love it. I love your government.I love all of the people around.These are all friends of mine. They know them very well. I’m not surprised that they do so well. These are great people. Ron has been a friend of mine for a long time. I feel very comfortable in the state. I will spend a lot of time here. I want to, you know, for four years I’ve got to be in Washington. And I’m okay with it because I love the White House. I even fixed up the little Oval Office. I think it’s like a diamond. It’s beautiful. So beautiful. Wasn’t maintained properly. I will tell you that. But even when it wasn’t, it’s still the Oval Office, so it meant a lot.But I’ll spend as much time as I can. You know, my vacation is generally here because it’s convenient. I live in Palm Beach. It’s my home. And I have a very nice little place with a nice little cottage to stay. All right? But we have a lot of fun. And I’m a big contributor to Florida and pay a lot of tax. And a lot of people move from New York and I don’t what New York is going to do. A lot of people move to Florida from New York, and it’s for a lot of reasons, but one of them is taxes. The taxes are so high in New York, they’ll leave. I don’t know what New York is going to do about that, because some of the biggest and wealthiest people, and some of the people who pay the most taxes of any people in the world, for that matter. They’re moving to Florida and other places. So we’re going to have to help some of these states out, I think. But thank you very much! I’ll be here as much as I can. Very nice question.

+ During a lunch with African leaders on Wednesday, Trump complimented Joseph Nyuma Boakai, the president of Liberia, on how well he spoke English, apparently ignorant of the fact that it’s been the country’s official language since its founding in 1847 by the American Colonization Society as a settlement for freed American slaves. Of course, Biden made similar remarks about Barack Obama during the 2008 Democratic primaries…

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