Discussion: WATCH LIVE: Trump Discusses School Choice In Cleveland At 2 PM ET

I choose not to listen.

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When he starts praising charter schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/08/22/john-oliver-hysterically-savages-charter-schools-and-charter-supporters-arent-happy/

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When will this troll stop lying? I’ll bet not even after he gets his head handed to him in the general election.

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He’s even crazier than last night, and oranger, much oranger…

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Well, on another thread, the topic is Ohio University deciding whether to remove the name “Roger Ailes” from their campus newsroom. Donnie will fit right in.

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Has he actually talked about education yet?

Well Trump knows a lot about education, after all he even has his own university,

What if as Pres he shows up at a funeral or medal award ceremony peeved about something trivial, do you think he’s going to talk about the dead person or medal recipient?

Just tuning in. What is wrong with his voice? He sounds like he’s reading at storytime hour.

Watching cnn with the sound off… if I put the sound on I might be forced to toss some heavy object at my tv.
Apparently trump will “immediately spend 20BILLION on schools” and support merit pay for teachers.

I wonder…does trump know who has control of government spending? Welp, it ain’t the President. Paul Ryan is having a seizure right about now I expect and Reince Priebus might be seen pounding his head on his desk presently.

Teachers will have to get in line after all the vets he’s sending to private doctors and hospitals and promising that the government will pick up the tab.

Teachers are against merit pay…but you know…who cares what they think?

20 Billion sounds nice until you take into account that 20 Billion is like what… 3 - 4 percent of what we pay for schools each year, and 1 time 3 percent additional isn’t going to fix the issues.

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See? Trump is approaching “governing” like he is a CEO and America is a for profit corporation.
But he won’t be and we aren’t.
Poor guy. He has zero understanding of how the government operates.

I worked for the federal government for 25 years, last six years in DC. We all know government budgets and funding are extremely complex processes. I don’t think Trump could ever comprehend it, or have the patience to endure it.

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And still, he is never asked the logical follow-up question of how he expects to pay for that while lowering taxes . . . . I know I shouldn’t even consider the possibility that a member of the media might ask that.

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So my question is…where does he think he’s gonna find 20 billion to do anything without going thru the appropriation process? The House of Representatives controls the purse strings. trump doesn’t seem to get the point at all. This would be comical if it weren’t so frigging serious,

You could tell Donald was really proud of himself because he had written down and could spout some numbers about the cost of educating a child in New York and Illinois. (Is this the magic pivot?)

Trump: “There’s an appropriation process? What’s that? Christy, handle it!”