That’s Trump reading his speech for the first time ever as he sees it on the prompter and feeling the need to add his own commentary about this fact he’s just been introduced to for the first time and which he therefore assumes the audience has never heard either. It’s the same thing as when he reads a person’s name he’s never heard of and declares it a “beautiful name”.
Don’t worry, I got it.
Sounds like a fifth grader giving a book report on a book he hasn’t read.
Fun Quiz time!
Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
O say can you see 'em
Stuffed cabbage is the darling of the Laundromat
'N the sorority mascot sat with the lumberjack
Were these words spoken or sung by:
- Bob Dylan, in 1966, in a New York City club
- John C. Reilly, in Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story
- That guy we all knew in undergrad
- Donald J. Trump
Actually, choice 2 is correct, but I can totally hear Trump reading this out if it was put before him on a teleprompter, and as if it was serious.
I could have sworn that was Vogon poetry…
Back to Trump: Not quite sure whether he does it on purpose, but listening to his delivery, his voice, the repetition of words and the unspecified nouns, verbs and universal quantifiers (“people are saying…”), is actually quite trance-inducing. I wonder if that is why people attending his rallies don’t realise what incoherent rubbish comes out of his mouth, as they are literally zonked out.
Well, to be grudgingly fair (and boy does it hurt), some of the slurring could be caused by poorly fitting or inadequately anchored dentures. Otherwise, though, yeh, what mental capacity he still has is clearly cdwindling.
I have never been a fan of Trump, but I do not agree with that Doonesbury cartoon. Trump has some psychiatric diagnoses, but not that one. His garbled language could be caused by many, many other things.
However, there is a concern in the change of Trump’s speeches since 2016. This informative gift link explains the concern in much detail.
Excerpt from above link.
Trump’s critics were right in 2016 to observe the grim novelty of his politics: their ideology of national pessimism, their open demagoguery and clear affinities with the far right, their blunt division of the country into us and them in a way that no major party’s presidential nominee had dared for decades. But Trump’s great accomplishment, one that was less visible from a distance but immediately apparent at his rallies, was the us that he conjured there: the way his supporters saw not only him but one another, and saw in themselves a movement.
That us is still there in Trump’s 2024 speeches. But it is not really the main character anymore. These speeches, and the events that surround them, are about them — what they have done to Trump, and what Trump intends to do in return.
“I keep telling people: ‘Watch the speeches,’” Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s 2016 campaign chief executive and, briefly, chief White House strategist, told me recently. “When you look at the content of what he’s putting out there, he couldn’t telegraph this any more clearly: what he stands for, and what he’s up against.”
Trump has always said what he means in his speeches. He is also constantly obscuring it, by instinct or design, contradicting his own statements or waving them off as jokes, scribbling over them with tangents and lies and just plain weirdness. One of the first things I noticed watching him last year, though, is that this is less true than it once was.
As with everything about Trump, what was once revolutionary has become institutionalized. The insult-comic riffs and winding tours through the headlines are more constrained and repetitive now, his performer’s instincts duller than they once were. The brutalist building blocks of the prepared speech, its stock-photo celebrations of national triumphs (“We stand on the shoulders of American heroes who crossed the ocean, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, laid down the railroads, raised up those great beautiful skyscrapers … ”) and lamentations of national decline, now stand out in clearer relief.
They build to a rhetorical climax that is echoed from one speech to the next. In Claremont, N.H., in November, he said:
“2024 is our final battle.
With you at my side — and you’ve been at my side from the beginning — we will demolish the deep state. We’ll expel, we’re going to expel, those horrible, horrible warmongers from our government. They want to fight everybody. They want to kill people all over the place. Places we’ve never heard about before. Places that want to be left alone.”
What I’ve been wondering ever since Trump pulled this gem out of his addled brain: we know Robert E. Lee never said anything about fighting uphill (in a leprechaun accent no less) but…did anyone? Where the hell did that quote come from?
Putin has it on video.
‘Fake news! It’s ice cream! Two scoops!’
One hopes the yellow drizzle is butterscotch.
“$1.2 trillion for their fake infratruckershire bill”
Infratruckersistershire?
It’s a sauce he puts on his hamberders when ketchup just isn’t enough.
Just wondering … has anybody made a list of Trump’s verbal gaffes? Covfefe, hamberders, Nambia, bigly, and now infratruckershire. There are others, but has anybody listed all of them?
This is my favorite Trump gaffe. You can hear his brain melting down after he says “ree-pee-toot” (it’s the weird eye look and the “uhhhhh” noise).
Answer to thread question is No:
Mornington Crescent.
“He’s no good on flation”
“We can’t make your auto industry gate”
“It’s even more becocked”
“Vagen food”
“GOP growth is plunging”
“Venezueler”