The Incoherent, Addled Trump
Republicans and desperate journalists take any incident where Biden misspeaks as proof he has dementia. But Trump routinely gives long, rambling, often incoherent tirades at his worship services—where his congregation comes to worship the new Son of God. Here are a few examples with notes and sources.
When he is caught with addled-sounding rhetoric he has this excuse: “The fake news will say Trump is rambling. No, it’s genius what I’m doing up here, but nobody understands.”
“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down.” It was obviously not at 7-Eleven. In addition he was not at the World Trade Center right after it came down.
“The Mueller Report, I wished, covered the oranges — how it started, the beginnings of the investigation, how it started. It didn’t cover that, and for some reason, none of that was discussed.” Source
“Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.” Source.
“First they say, ‘Sir, how do you do it? How do you wake up in the morning and put on your pants?’ And I say, ‘Well, I don’t think about it too much.’ I don’t want to think about it because if I think about it too much maybe I won’t want to do it, but I love it because we’re going to do something for this country that’s never been done before.” Source
On the Civil War: “See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died. So many people died. Abraham Lincoln, of course, if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was. He would’ve been president, but he would’ve been president, and he would have been — he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln.”
Regarding his daughter: “She does have a very nice figure… If she weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” And there’s plenty more.
On Robert E. Lee. “Robert E. Lee, who’s no longer in favor — did you ever notice it? He’s no longer in favor. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.’ They were fighting uphill. He said, ‘Wow, that was a big mistake.’ He lost his big general. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys,’ but it was too late.” He delivered the lines in a strage accent and the quote was entirely invented.
“Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. …What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” Source.
“It’s like in golf… A lot of people — I don’t want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive… it’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.” Source.
A long, incoherent quote. “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
Regarding his Insurrection: “You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley…Nikki Haley was in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down.” He couldn’t tell the difference between Nancy Peolosi and Nikki Haley and also made up what happened.
Your guess is as good as mine: “We have become a drug-infested, crime-ridden nation, which is incapable of solving even the ‘solllest’… smallest problem. The simplest of problems we can no longer solve. We can’t do anything. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on.”
An imaginary country found only in his mind. “Nambia’s health system is increasingly self-sufficient.”
“If you think about it, you have men, you have women, and you have religion. If you look at it, you have more than the men, you have more than the women. You have such power.” Part of a totally incoherent speech he gave in Nashville. There’s plenty more like this. Source.
On Covid: “If we didn’t do testing, we’d have no cases.” More “But if we did — think of this, if we didn’t do testing — instead of testing over 40 million people, if we did half the testing we’d have half the cases. If we did another — you cut that in half, we’d have yet again half of that.”
“Human trafficking, one of the worst things ever, all at a level that it’s never been at — because of the Internet, you wouldn’t think — you’d think of it as an ancient statement.” Source.
When asked about homelessness: “It’s a phenomena that started two years ago. It’s disgraceful. I’m going to maybe — and I’m looking at it very seriously, we’re doing some other things that you probably noticed, like some of the very important things that we’re doing now. But we’re looking at it very seriously because you can’t do that. You can’t have what’s happening — where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat. I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick, where the people living there living in hell, too. …We may intercede. We may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up. It’s inappropriate. … We’ve never had this in our lives before in our country.” Source.
These are just a handful of the confusing and irrational things Trump has said. There are literally hundreds of such examples and every speech he gives provides more examples. Biden may be slower in his speech but he is far more coherent. If anyone is demented is Donald.
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