Watch: Trump Fumbles Repeatedly in Terrifying Speech at Florida Rally

[Uncle Joe]

Try to make any sense of what Donald Trump said.

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(snip)

“Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing in hosp … and we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms screaming, ‘What can I do, what can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess,” Trump continued, pivoting suddenly.

“You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won’t leave, that they have no idea when they will. Where ticket prices have tripled. They don’t have the pilots to fly the planes, they don’t seek qualified air traffic controllers, and they just don’t know what the hell they are doing.”

From the death penalty to crying mothers and crappy airports, if Trump was hoping for an emotional moment, he seems to have missed it by a mile. His breakneck pace and awkward delivery suggests that the presumptive Republican nominee doesn’t actually care about a single one of his randomly assembled points. How can anyone take him seriously when he speeds from his often-repeated, baseless claims about immigrants to whining that as a country, “We don’t eat bacon anymore”?

Trump continued to rely on blatant fearmongering to excite his supporters, who grew sleepy and disinterested as the former president rattled on through his 75-minute speech, according to The Guardian.

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https://newrepublic.com/post/183641/watch-trump-fumbles-terrifying-speech-florida-rally

[Ocelot II]

1. But Joe Biden is old.

And Hillary had those emails.
And Obama wore a tan suit.

[Omnipresent]

2. Well, he said he offered Nikki Haley 10,000 troops on the day of the insurrection, but she turned him down.

Or was that before he said President Biden was going to start World war II?

[John1956PA]

3. The teleprompters glitched.

We all know that 45 reads from them. Sure, he embellishes a lot, but the overall path of the canned speech is from the teleprompters. I am thinking that there were two teleprompters. I think that one or both of them glitched, thereby presenting text which jumped ahead in the canned speech.

[k55f5r]

6. Hmmmmm.

Wondering if the teleprompter tech was just sick of his part in this...

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I question this guy's sanity. Just listen to the last five recent speeches of his (I won't) and the word salads.

No one, I repeat, no one can make heads or tails of what the hell he's talking about, and he's being yapping away for months and months like this.

And they are worried about one debate performance by Pres. Biden? Give me a break.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. The press will be aaaaall over this.

[valleyrogue]

10. Like flies to Pence. n/t

[GreenWave]

7. Maybe the teleprompter is still suffering from the gish gallop...

[Uncle Joe]

8. I don't believe *rump's teleprompter has been the same ever since it saw him

sexually abusing Old Glory.

[orthoclad]

9. Pushing buttons

"Children dying" - BING!
"Help me God" - religon - BING!
"Airports suck" - we can all relate to that - BING!

When will we realize that it doesn't need to make sense, as long as he pushes all the buttons that the corporate media have been installing for years?

This is not a war of wits, it's a war of emotions. We need to counter with images like the mass graves in 2020, the refrigerator truck morgues, the children being pulled from their mother's arms, the anonymous troops kidnapping citizens from the street. Discussion of policy points and statistics are very very weak motivations in comparison.

Yes, we need to analyze the implications of Schedule F in Project 2025, but will that bring out the 1/3 of USians who don't vote? We need massive numbers to overcome the subversions of the voting system. How best to get them?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. The speech

Link to tweet

Link to tweet