"What did you do at school today, Jimmy?"

Just to recap, Donald Trump said this at the Moms4Liberty event.

Trump: But, eh, the transgender thing is incredible. Think of it, your kid goes to school and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And you know many of these childs [sic] fifteen years later say, “What the hell happened? Who did this to me?”

 This was an addled and exaggerated version of the rhetoric M4L has been pushing ...

 

 

... so it appeared that a confused Trump was just trying to repeat what his hosts had told him.

Now it seems to be part of the standard stump speech

Trump: Can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school and your son comes back with a brutal operation. pic.twitter.com/ChmwpavFAH

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 7, 2024

As far as I can tell, the Independent is the only paper  that considered Trump's rants about Jimmy's operations worthy of more than passing mention.

Trump falsely claims children being forced into gender transition ops at school in rambling fantasy-filled rally speech by Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump falsely claimed yet again that children are the subject of “brutal” gender operations at schools across the US.

“Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operations, take them away from their parents, perform sex change operations, and send them back home,” Trump said in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon.

“Can you imagine you’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ‘Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation,” he added. “Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country?”

 For comparison, here was the headline in the NYT:

Trump Lays Out Vision for Bending the Federal Government to His Will

While the tone of the article is critical (considerably above average for the paper), it captures none of the craziness, treating most of the speech as actual policy suggestions, albeit rambling and ill-considered.

CNN did the same:

CNN correspondent sanewashes Trump's diatribe in Wisconsin by pretending he rolled out a serious new policy proposal about changing the 25th amendment pic.twitter.com/lwhupELbN0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 7, 2024

Though Meidas Touch clearly has an agenda, they do a better job capturing just how bizarre these events are.