Is a bear Catholic?
Does the Pope Poop inna woods?
HELL YES, HE’S CONFUSED!
I can’t tell if this is recent or long-term, though.
Nigel has been supporting Trump at a few of his rallies and bragging about their close friendship. So it’s possible he’d been moaning to Trump about his bank issues in the hours before this speech and it kind of stuck in his head.
Reading this back, I want to clarify on the underlined part.
There’s no evidence of the banks being political, let alone “woke”.
The thing I’m not commenting on is Farage’s specific case.
Just want to be clear that I not a believer in the woke boogieman 
I hope at some point a judge mentions this to him when he starts frothing at the mouth about “political interference”. Dude, you’re the one who decided to run for President. Is this how you want to spend the rest of your life, Trump?
It sounds like the the advertising copy for some tchotchke on Temu.
Gradient is a phenomenon with strong regularity, which can generate a sense of perspective and space when applied in visual design for this.
That way lies madness.
It’s like people using “disinterested” (impartial) when they mean “uninterested” (not into).
So Trump is Chat-GPT?
But without the intelligence.
If that’s all it is, that’s a normal misapprehension. But I’ve never heard “un-bank” before and wonder if that is really what he meant.
Tangentially related: a political commentator on NPR just referred to Trump’s speech last night as a typical “sidewinder” of a speech.
I think she meant “stemwinder” (a speech that’s either rousing or long and boring, depending on whether you go with definition (1) or (2)). But given the way Trump’s mind works, “sidewinder” is probably the perfect description.
In the financial services industry, “unbanked” is a real word – an adjective, describing people who do not have a bank account and are therefore hard to reach through normal service channels. But I doubt that Trump was saying that “they” are trying to take away your bank account.
Because there are 50 states and 7 territories. He was just stumbling over a higher level of knowledge than most people have.
Try 8 territories including Puerto Rico.
I spent a great deal of time in the Reagan White House. Trust me, he often did not know what was going on, especially during the second term. That’s why they would suddenly fly him off to the ranch or Camp David. He was just the spokesmodel anyway.
Point of SDMSB nitpickery:
The Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Republic of Palau are not US Territories, they are sovereign members of the UN associated by compact to the US.
The US besides the 50 states comprises the following permanently-inhabited jurisdictions with elected civil governments:
One Federal District (District of Columbia)
Five Unincorporated Territories: US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the “commonwealths” of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
(Plus one uninhabited Incorporated Territory (Palmyra), a scattering of islands with no permanent native population (Wake, Midway, etc.), and a significant number of sovereign native nations that are contained within the nominal boundaries of the states)
Carry on.
Well, actually, having looked it up, it’s changed a bit since I went to school. There are 14, plus 2 disputed. But it’s super weird that neither of our lists includes Kwajalein, which was part of the list I had to memorize.
Kwajalein is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands since the dissolution of the Pacific Trust Territory. All the various islands in the Trusteeship wound up part of either the NMI, FSM, Marshalls or Palau jurisdictions.
Thank you. I feel Olde.
No judge would say that. It would just confirm the Trumpy view that the courts have been politicised and don’t want him to run.
Judges are not cops, or critics. They are very careful to remain impartial and to appear impartial.
Didn’t Obama visit forty-seven states when he misspoke?
It was pretty clear from the audio that he started to say 50 then meant to correct it to 47 and it came out 57. It wasn’t confusion, it was simply mispeaking.