With less than two weeks to go in a chaotic presidential election circus, the convicted felon facing prison if he loses, is more off the wall, more profane, spitting out more lies in what is still a tight race for the the presidency he won in 2016, lost in 2020 and is trying for a return to power in 2024.
“For weeks and weeks, I’m up here ranting and raving,” Trump claimed at a Oct. 13 rally in Arizona. ” Last night, 100,000 people, flawless. Ranting and raving. I’m ranting and raving. Not a mistake. And then I’ll be at a little thing, and I’ll say something, a little bit like ‘the,’ I’ll say, ‘dah,’ they’ll say, ‘He’s cognitively impaired.’ No. I’ll let you know when I will be. I will be someday. We all will be someday, but I’ll be the first to let you know.”
“In an Oct. 7 interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump claimed he had visited Gaza,” The Washington Post reports. ” There is no evidence he has ever been to the territory, and a campaign official later clarified he was referring to Israel, which does not encompass Gaza.”
Donald Trump debuted a name for his idiosyncratic, digressive speaking style this summer: “the weave.”
The Republican presidential nominee, now 78,was frustrated with news coverage describing his speeches as ramblingand speculating about cognitive decline, according to people who have talked with him, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
Trump decided to brand his habit of going off on wide-ranging tangents as the mark of a vibrant and sophisticated mind,they said — trying to turn what many voters, and some of his advisers, saw as a weakness into a strength.
Trump’s recent public appearances have been strikingly erratic, coarse and often confusing, even for a politician with a history of ad-libbing in three consecutive presidential runs, a Washington Post review of dozens of speeches, interviews and other public appearances shows. His speeches have gotten longer and more repetitive compared with those of past campaigns. He promotes falsehoods and theories that are so far removed from reality or appear wholly made up that they are often baffling to anyone not steeped in MAGA media or internet memes.
He jumps more abruptly between subjects and from his script to improvising, sometimes offering what sound like non-sequiturs. He occasionally mixes up words or names, and some of his sentences are meaningless or nonsensical. As he delivered more speeches in October, he has made multiple slip-ups per day. He has become more profane in public.
Yet his cadre of supporters, referred to as “MAGA Maggots” continue to support him, without question.
“Just because you don’t like how somebody talks doesn’t mean that you don’t listen to what’s in their head,” Deanna Borracci, 52, who wore a hat reading “Re-elect that motherf—er” when interviews at Trump’s rally in Juneau, Wisconsin, on Oct. 6.
“It doesn’t bother me,” she said, He’s being himself.”
She’s claiming support for a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator and fraud who faced a remaining court hearings on more serious felony charges of misuse of classified documents, obstruction of justice and sedition against this nation.
God help us and this nation if he wins.
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