Trump Can’t Seem to Make Up His Mind About EVs at Michigan Rally

In one of several lengthy tangents during a campaign stop in Michigan, former President Donald Trump went on a self-contradictory rant about electric vehicles.

After complaining about having to deliver a lowered $175 million bond in his bank fraud case earlier on Tuesday morning, Trump veered into one of his most inflationary policies—putting tariffs on electric vehicles—before later encouraging Americans to buy them if they’re so inclined.

“I’m gonna sign a bill where we’re gonna tariff your cars and all of the other things that you send in to hurt Michigan,” Trump said, recalling a threat he made early in his term in an attempt to force former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to provide troops along the border, “and, regardless of that, because the new threat is China building factories—not with me they weren’t—in Mexico, they’re gonna build cars in Mexico and sell them, and they think they’re gonna sell them over our border with no tax. Not gonna happen.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.