When he first mentioned it a couple months ago, it was lumped in with other campaign promises: “We’re going to build a wall, we’re going to get rid of Obamacare, we’re going to abolish tornadoes…”
So nobody paid much attention to Donald Trump’s May 23 speech – except Fred Hensley, president of the Midwest Home Rehabilitation Institute (MHRI)
“Nobody likes tornadoes,” he says, “but without them we’d be losing a major portion of our income.”
Hensley says the Trump campaign won’t explain how he’d manage to rid the nation of the powerful storms, but that’s in keeping with its overall policy of not explaining how they’d do anything.
“They told us they know how to get it done and we just have to believe them,” says Hensley. He believes he owes it to his membership to raise objections, so the institute is currently examining ways to prevent the billionaire’s election
“Nobody’s going to argue against progress,” says Hensley. “But we should at least be talking about a gradual phase-out.”
Hensley says also that the MHRI is considering teaming up with another organization, the American Painting Supply Association, which is up in arms about another Trump promise: To ban colors.
