President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned what was supposed to be a routine address to Michigan business leaders to highlight his administration's economic policies into an hour-long airing of grievances and empty boasts that offered little in the way of details on how he will address Americans’ concerns in the months before voters decide whether to permit his party to retain unified control of Washington.
The president’s annual appearance before the Detroit Economic Club started off with the usual Trumpian platitudes and shout-outs to the club’s leadership and other Motor City and Wolverine State business and political luminaries, but quickly pivoted to partisan conspiracy-mongering as Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, falsely claimed to have won Michigan’s electoral votes in all three of his runs for the White House.
