President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Friday and Saturday, after his Thursday debate with Joe Biden, emphasizing that this election is “a choice between optimism, patriotic vision for American success, or Joe Biden’s dark, dismal, gloomy.” That was Trump’s opening thrust at a Friday night campaign rally in Pensacola, Florida, and he later emphasized that the nation’s Moon-Mars mission is at the center of that optimism: “America will land the first woman on the Moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars. And NASA is now the most incredible thing that you’ve ever seen. And let me tell you, when I took over three and a half years ago, it was an abandoned mess.”
Trump contrasted this outlook with the “gloomy vision” of the Biden-Harris Green New Deal and its crazy call to replace oil with solar energy and windmills. Trump made fun of the idiocy of the whole idea: “One of the most stunning moments last night [during the debate] was when Joe Biden admitted that he wants to abolish the oil industry…. That could be one of the worst mistakes made in presidential debate history…. No fossil fuels and no gas-powered cars. Ultimately, let’s not have cars. Let’s get rid of airplanes. Biden’s plan would mean American seniors have no air conditioning during the summer, no heat during the winter, and no electricity during peak hours. It’s true. He wants wind. He wants to wind. When the wind doesn’t blow, `Let’s watch the president tonight, darling, on television.’ `I’m sorry, we can’t do it. The wind’s not blowing tonight.’”
Even the GOP seems to have gotten the memo. They sent out a tweet on Friday afternoon which began: “Pres. Trump is fighting for YOU! Here are some of his priorities for a 2nd term: *Establish Permanent Manned Presence on The Moon;
*Send the 1st Manned Mission to Mars;
*Build World’s Greatest Infrastructure System,” and so on.
President Trump had another three campaign speeches on his agenda for Saturday: in Lumberton, NC; Circleville, OH; and Waukesha, WI. At the spirited North Carolina rally, billed as “Remarks on Fighting for the Forgotten Men and Women,” Trump continued to ridicule Joe Biden as a candidate as well as his economic and other policies; on Afghanistan he said 19 years of war was enough, and said that he’s taken a lot of heat for his plan to withdraw U.S. troops “from the military intelligence complex;” and he hit at the media for their cover-up of the Biden family’s corruption.
