Donald Trump appeared at the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit on Wednesday where he touched on the issue for just a moment before he started rambling about his economy and immigration.
Trump kept interrupting his own speech to tout the economy and attack immigrants.
“We will not solve this epidemic overnight,” the President told attendees, which consisted of mostly experts and stakeholders in battling prescription drug and opioid abuse. “But we will stop…” which then Trump literally stopped.
“There’s just nothing going to stop us,” he clearly ad-libbed. “No matter how you cut it. I know some of the people in this room. Nothing stops you,” he said.
“Nothing stops you, I can tell you,” he added.
“We will never stop, until our job is done,” Trump told the audience, apparently in a live update to his written speech. “And then maybe we’ll have to find something new. And I hope that’s going to be soon, but we will succeed. We have results that are unbelievable,” he continued.
His rambling went on and on. Vox’s Aaron Rupar shared all the moments from Trump’s speech where he rambled on like a lonely old man.
wut 😳 pic.twitter.com/s6co2EWL4c
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
TRUMP: “Each year, more than 70,000 precious American lives are lost to the opioid and drug crisis. In my opinion, the number is much higher than that.” #huh pic.twitter.com/SWHDe1dNr4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
Trump is now touting the unemployment rate during a speech that’s purportedly about opioid abuse prevention because of course pic.twitter.com/52KHGGAbJm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
And now Trump is stoking fears about migrants during a speech that’s purportedly about opioid addiction prevention.
“Drugs are being gotten by us,” Trump says, tentatively, pivoting to a pitch for his border wall. pic.twitter.com/8ZcPNol51G
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
Trump’s opioid abuse prevention speech has gone completely off the rails. Now he’s musing about the dress Melania wore the day he launched his campaign and chastising Democrats for not changing immigration laws. pic.twitter.com/XgcDhV4Blb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
Trump is really struggling to get through this pic.twitter.com/QYEknZOXK0
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
Well, that speech was bizarre pic.twitter.com/lhmEtGG3hc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 24, 2019
