Trump on EVs: Please get rid of this stuff
Sleepy Joe, the FBI, and now EVs are on Trump’s [redacted] list: Donald Trump took a stab at electric vehicles (EVs) in a campaign rally speech to endorse a Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania last week (watch, runtime: 1:29). The nonsensical rant — typical of the former Apprentice host (and one-time US president) — referred to “a friend of his,” who bought an EV and was not too happy about having to charge the car every two hours — and sometimes not finding a charging station to do so. “Please let’s get rid of this stuff. Please,” the poor fellow begged. Trump’s rationale for getting rid of them: Firstly, people can’t afford EVs because they’re “twice as expensive” and secondly, the batteries are all made in China because the “rare earth comes out of China” (he was dean of Geology at Trump U). Agent Orange also praised “clean, beautiful coal.”