During the presidential campaign last year, Donald Trump made a series of speeches and appearances at economic clubs around the country. He didn't give the formal speeches other candidates give to crowds like that, which you'd expect to demonstrate some knowledge about finance and to express plans and policies aimed at meeting the challenges of the economy. He mostly just gave his usual stream-of-consciousness "weave" about whatever topic engaged him that day, interspersed with some rote words on the teleprompter written by a campaign staffer. But during the Q&A sessions, Trump was often stymied by questions for which he was totally unprepared.
Perhaps the most famous instance came at the Economic Club of New York, where someone asked him what he planned to do about the crisis in child care and he gave a meandering answer worthy of a fourth-grader's book report on a book he hadn't read. He began by saying that "child care is child care" and then suggested that imposing tariffs on imported goods would somehow fix the problem.
