Trump Doesn’t Know What Busing Is

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to confuse a Civil Rights-era practice of school integration referred to as "busing" with the use of buses as a general mode of transportation for students.

The president took questions from the media on Saturday following this week's Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Osaka, Japan. In response to a question from NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker about the use of court-ordered busing to integrate school districts in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, Trump did not comment on the policy but instead observed that "there aren't that many ways you're going to get people to schools."

The president's remarks received near-instantaneous scorn, with some questioning whether he even understood what the practice of desegregation busing was.

Lawyer George Conway, husband to senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, mocked the president: "everyone said Trump was so smart because he could tell the busing wasn't good enough and that no one was a better judge of busing than Trump."

Trump had evaded an earlier question from ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl about federally mandated busing, pivoting quickly to an attack on his 2020 Democratic opponents.

"Well, first of all, before I get into that, I thought that [Harris] was given too much credit," Trump assessed. "[Biden] didn't do well, certainly. And maybe the facts weren't necessarily on his side."

Alluding to the busing issue at the center of Karl's question, Trump said: "I will tell you in about four weeks."

"Because we're coming out with a certain policy that's going to be very interesting and very surprising, I think, to a lot of people," he claimed.

It is unclear what policy the president was referring to in his response.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/president-donald-trump-suggests-busing-just-way-get-people-schools-1446669

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]