Another day, another face-planting opportunity for Donald Trump. At this point it’s never a surprise to learn that Trump has said something that defies logic and grammar, but the disgraced former president’s recent campaign speech in Wisconsin may signal a new low even for him.

For no reason at all, Trump started discussing what he seems to believe is one of the biggest issues facing our country: a fictional decline in bacon consumption.

“You take a look at bacon and some of these products,” Trump told the crowd, “and some people don’t eat bacon anymore.”

Okay, go on…

“And we are going to get the energy prices down, when we get energy down,” he continued. “Now this was caused by their horrible energy wind, they want wind all over the place.”

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Okay so…I know what you’re thinking. What do bacon and windmills have to do with each other? It may sound like a c*nty riddle ending in a fart joke, but it’s not, because they don’t have anything to do with each other, and as usual Trump is just throwing words together and hoping no one listens too closely.

After calling on fact-checkers everywhere to take a look into this claim—the claim that bacon is too expensive for people to buy because of windmills—journalist Mehdi Hasan said what we’re all thinking. “Historians will scratch their heads about 2024,” he tweeted, “in which 1 candidate was forced to quit the race for being old & having a bad debate while the other candidate said mad, rambling stuff like this & not only stayed in the race but didn’t get pressured to step aside by the media.”

Because yes, as you may have guessed, there is no bacon windmill crisis in this country, in fact bacon is currently going at a very reasonable rate. And even if it were true that people weren’t eating as much bacon anymore, I can think of 45 reasons off the top of my head for why that might be the case, and none of them involve wind energy.

Is it surprising? No. Is it embarrassing? Yes. Do we need to make sure this is dragged to filth every day leading up to the election in November? A resounding yes.

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