OMG, you’re not actually suggesting that Trump might LIE about something and fail to admit fault, are you?! Egad!
I already told you the word that replaces “airports.” It’s “ramparts.” “Manned the ramparts.” Y’know, as in “o’er the ramparts we watched.” You may have heard that alongside other phrases Trump said, like “the rockets’ red glare” and “their star spangled banner waved.” Sound familiar?
Watch the video again. You can hear him say it wrong, stop himself, and try again.
“Our army manned the airpuh…it read the ramparts” After that, he’s off track. Watch his hands. His body language says “I don’t know what to say.” Do you really think a professional speechwriter put “it did everything it had to do” in the final text? In the words of Joe Biden, c’mon man.
You guys are acting like the dude is speaking extemporaneously, generating ideas from his own head. He’s not. He’s reading. It’s really not that hard to figure out.
I like how you say “admitted”, like a confession or something.
Yeah, but he told a bunch of boy scouts about his friend’s sex yacht; it’s hard to chalk that one up to a bad read. It’s not my place to say if President Not-my-type is clinically mentally ill, but I feel safe in proclaiming him fucking bonkers. He’s at the bottom end of every other bell curve that describes human behaviour, why not mental health’s as well?
Do you remember when the right used to complain endlessly about how Obama would read his speeches off a teleprompter? Because I do
And now we’re supposed to excuse Trump being a deranged, incompetent moron who thought there were airports in the 18th century because he read it on a teleprompter?
And so on, until by the end of the book the reader confesses to having a best friend named Boo Boo Butt and to being a monkey who taught themselves to read and who is reading with a monkey mouth in a monkey voice.
Kids freakin LOVE this book. Part of what’s so funny to them is that it’s obviously not true: just because the words are on the page, YOU DON’T ACTUALLY HAVE TO READ THEM.
To be clear: I can easily imagine myself misreading a teleprompter and thinking the word “rampart” was “airport.”
But I cannot imagine myself not realizing what I was saying. And if I’d said something about an 18th-century army taking over airports, I can’t imagine just continuing on as if there was nothing wrong with that. Motherfucker just keeps on talking through that line, doesn’t even stumble after he says “they took over the airports.”
I’m actually having trouble figuring out your argument, on rereading it. When he’s blathering about taking over airports, do you believe he’s reading, or do you believe he’s off-track and doesn’t know what to say and so is extemporizing?
I suspect that his disinclination for reading briefing papers (and apparently pretty much anything) may be due to some form of dyslexia and/or refusal to use glasses as age hampers his eyesight. He misreads a word and his mouth fills in something similar sounding. He doesn’t notice that it doesn’t make sense because the words are of no significance to him - they are merely the “blah, blah, blah” that lets him stand up there in the role of POTUS and have people applaud him and jet planes roar overhead.
Neurological disorder? Sounds like something clinical that I’m not qualified to diagnose.
However, I can comment on what I observe.
Trump was raised in Dr. Norman Vincent Peales’ “Power of Positive Thinking” church. The basic tenet of the church is to react to the world as you believe it should be - not as it is. Trump constantly exhibits this characteristic. In Trumps’ world he is the all powerful head of the US Government. Those who support his world view are noble and skilled. Those who do not support his world view are stupid loosers. An individual may occupy both positions within minutes of each other. It’s simply Trumps’ world view at the time of the utterance. The past, fact and truth do not exist in the Peale positive philosophy. Positive belief can alter reality.
Ones religious belief is delusional, even an atheist. It’s a matter of degree. So, is Trumps’ delusion an illness? Is his philosophy in the office of President a First Amendment violation?
But they had already “rammed the ramparts” in the previous sentence. Clearly taking over the airports is the next strategic move. A very stable genius knows this.
I’ll admit that I don’t watch Trump’s every move, but lately he seems to be more coherent, if no less hateful and wrong. His recent attacks on AOC and others, and his “love it ir leave it” speeches have seemed dangerously calculated and consistent.
