Donald Trump just made one of his most ignorant offensive asinine idiotic horrible remarks yet

| 10:49 pm EDT August 1, 2019
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Donald Trump has said so many ignorant and offensive things, we’ve all lost count. Worse, we’ve come to expect it – setting the bar painfully low for what was once an esteemed office known as President of the United States. During a campaign rally tonight, Trump said something that might actually be the most horrible thing he’s ever said.

During his rally in Cincinnati tonight, Donald Trump said this: “We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America and curing childhood cancer very shortly.” No really, he said this; multiple major news outlets on hand at the rally have documented it. It would be one thing if he meant any of it. But Trump has no plan for this kind of thing, no basis for saying it, and he certainly hasn’t tried to steer any funding toward these goals – and he’s toying with millions of people who are dealing with these deadly diseases.

Yes, Joe Biden previously said that if he becomes president, he’ll try to cure cancer. But that came in an entirely different context. Biden’s family has been personally touched by cancer, and he’s been actively working with Penn University on cancer research since long before he entered the 2020 election. Moreover, Biden isn’t promising that he’ll magically cure cancer “shortly.” For that matter, Trump surely said this tonight to try to dishonestly one-up Biden, as if deadly diseases were some kind of game. Also, Trump is specifically dragging children into it, because of course he is.

Donald Trump says so many horrible things per month, per week, per day, it can become difficult to rank them. Perhaps we shouldn’t try. But this bizarrely ignorant lie about AIDS and cancer, which is clearly aimed at falsely getting people’s hopes up when he’s doing nothing to try to make it happen, is nothing short of despicable.