Trump's Millennial Forum Was An Epic Failure

SCOTT GREER
The Daily Caller
Mar. 24, 2018

President Trump hosted a forum for millennials at the White House Thursday, and it was a total travesty.

No millennial issues were addressed at the event, but Trump did find time to attack Hillary Clinton and offer advice to his 25-year-old self. He dismissed campus censorship — the primary issue of his young supporters and millennial conservatives — as overblown. He also touted tax cuts and tariffs, two policy items that aren’t exactly hot button issues for young people.

The other speakers at the forum were similarly tone-deaf. Ivanka Trump talked about how she’s a young person (no way!) and in generic platitudes. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway mistook her voting-age audience for seven year olds when she offered her advice on how to avoid drugs.

“As somebody double your age: Eat the ice cream, have the French fry, don’t buy the street drug. Believe me, it all works out,” Conway said.

If only meth addicts had the same desires as kindergartners…

It’s unclear what the purpose of the forum was but it surely didn’t appeal to young people. Unfortunately, Trump’s misadventure of a forum is only the latest example of Republican incompetence at youth outreach.

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