Commentary: Trump's transgender-based attack on the CHIPS Act is his most unhinged yet
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Set us as preferred Given the difficulty of identifying the most egregious assertions from President Trump’s latest outbursts of pique and petulance, it’s unsurprising that perhaps his weirdest and most despicable diatribe has gone under the radar.It came on July 15, at a “Defense and Innovation Summit” in Pennsylvania hosted by Sen.Dave McCormick (R-Pa.).
Trump chose this occasion to carry on about the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, which authorized $280 billion in government funding for semiconductor research and manufacturing.For some largely inexplicable reason, Trump has been railing against the CHIPS Act for years.This time around, he combined his general critique of the act with a flight of fancy aimed at another of his favorite targets, transgender people.
We had this ridiculous CHIPS Act....Of course the standards were so high.If you weren’t transgender, as an example, you didn’t qualify— President Trump, attacking the bipartisan CHIPS ActHere’s what he had to say:“We had this ridiculous CHIPS Act.
...Of course the standards were so high.
If you weren’t transgender, as an example, you didn’t qualify [for funding].So, they get the money that hired to look all over for transgender people to run the company.
Large portions.They couldn’t find them.
They weren’t into the chip-making business, I guess, right? They had other things on their mind.But this was the Biden fools, those idiots that almost destroyed our country.”There’s more, but that will do for now.
Let’s make something clear: There is absolutely nothing in the CHIPS Act about transgender persons.No mention at all.
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