Granholm mocks Trump: ‘You probably think this speech is about you’

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm ripped Donald Trump on Thursday as a vainglorious candidate who just doesn’t get it.

While acknowledging that she’s a “fierce Democrat,” Granholm sought to appeal to the entire electorate, noting that Republicans and Democrats both want to create more jobs in America.


“We are not in this alone. We’re all in this together,” she said in her address at the Democratic National Convention. “One candidate gets that, and one candidate, as Joe Biden said last night, doesn’t have a clue.”

Granholm sympathized with voters who are worried and angry but warned that the solution isn’t to “tear our country down.”

“It’s to build our country up, not to build walls that keep out the rest of the world, but to keep building the industries and universities that the rest of the world wishes they could get into,” Granholm said. “Hillary Clinton gets it, and that’s why she has yuge plans to create good-paying jobs in America.”

“Imagine that — actual plans. I must have missed that night at the Republican convention,” she quipped. “Detailed plans, people. Written down. Plans with numbers — that add up.”

She also derided the billionaire businessman for his repressive vision of a broken America that he believes only he can fix.

“Imagine Donald Trump’s version of the Constitution: ‘I the person, in order to form a more perfect union,’” she began. “Or centuries later: I shall overcome,” she crooned. “Or ‘ask not,’” she said, before adjusting the tone of her voice to sound deeper. “’Ask not what I can do for my country. Ask what my country can do for me.’”

The crowd erupted, but she wasn’t finished yet. “Donald, Donald, you’re so vain,” she said to more applause. “You probably think this speech is about you. Don’t you now? Here’s what I know: We have got to stop Donald Trump.”