Trump dodges question on governor, goes off on bizarre bridge-collapse rant

President Donald Trump dodged a question about his threats to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore with a long, confusing recount of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, repeatedly fixating on the “mass” of the container ship that struck it. During the rambling response, Trump repeatedly described the deaths of six workers as if narrating a spectacle, praised a police officer for halting traffic, and finally settled on awarding a medal — all without addressing the reporter’s original question about his threat to withhold funding or intervene in Baltimore. Critics say the bizarre tangent highlighted Trump’s tendency to evade accountability by changing the subject entirely.

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