At a Donald Trump rally in New Hampshire on Thursday, a fired-up gentleman in the audience pointed out that there’s a non-American Muslim in the White House, as well as, naturally, secret Muslim extremist training camps stealthily taking over America “to kill us.” This is a popular POV for the Average Trump Voter!
The man’s statement, which Trump didn’t question or challenge, went like so, per CNN:
“We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims,” an unidentified man who spoke at a question-and-answer town hall event in Rochester, New Hampshire asked the mogul. “You know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.”
A seemingly bewildered Trump interrupted the man, chuckling, “We need this question. This is the first question.”
“Anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us,” the man, wearing a “Trump” T-shirt, continued. “That’s my question: When can we get rid of them?”
“We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things,” Trump replied. “You know, a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening. We’re going to be looking at that and many other things.”
Among other things, this points to Trump’s ability to sort of mimic a normal candidate—banter with the audience, promise you’re “looking at” their concerns, praise the question, that’s it, great job, no one knows you’re a turnip balanced atop a suit stuffed with newspapers—without actually doing what a normal candidate would. A normal candidate might gently, for example, point out that Obama is pretty clearly not a secret Kenyan Muslim, and there are probably not Muslim training camps popping up all over Tempe or wherever.