I have a theory where Trump actually can’t really read, he can maybe vaguely tell what 100 or so words look like and has been faking it ever since he was a small child, to the point where he’s very good at fake reading. This would explain why he does so terribly with teleprompters.
I believe that. You never see him actually read something. At most he glances at something before having someone else read it and summarize it for him in a dumbed down way.
He couldn’t follow his intelligence briefings, which had to be reduced to fit on one page, without it mentioning his name in every other sentence. He’s only gotten more senile since.
I actually know a guy who can’t really read. I mean he can, but he has some learning disability mixed with adhd. He got through school okay, and i never really knew. I only figured it out when we played video games together and he would read things wrong, and always say something like: “what?” Pretend to read it again but quietly and then say:“aaah, got it.” But he didn’t get it, he just read the 3 words that seemed important and the rest was context clues.
I think it’s nuts that no one ever questions the shit Donnie says. Is it because they know how much of an embarrassment that would be? Like every time he talks shit about a country or even state, he should be asked if he can point on it on a map. Or when he just does stupid ass monologues like his nuclear speech, wouldn’t you ask again and again until his story makes even a lick of sense? One guy didn’t get elected because he spelled potato wrong. I remember obama doing an ama and he wrote “an meteor” instead of “a meteor” or some shit, and the spelling mistake was the biggest thing of the ama.
Somehow, came upon Trumps speech from the RNC last night. Started reading random parts outloud. Ended up convinced all the Democrats have to do is run ads with all the incoherent crap he says.
It’s really frustrating because he absolutely speaks worse than Biden as far as having a coherent statement, it’s just that he still has the capacity to speak loudly and quickly that people confuse it for still being mentally capable… Meanwhile Biden has a decent address to the nation regarding his decision not to run but he sounds like he’s whispering and because he’s always had a studder he stumbles a bit.
Again with Republicans it’s all about projecting strength so Biden appears “weak.”
That’s all they’ve ever had to do.
Someone has a high opinion of their fellow citizenry.
Just a 30 second clip of Trump rambling, with a 3 second “This ad brought to you by the Harris for President campaign”
No one over 70 should be allowed to run for public office
No one who has tried to stage a coup to take over the United States should be able to run for public office.
No one who stole classified documents
and stored them in an insecure locationshould be able to run for public office.Strike that. Regardless of where he stored them he had no reason (other than treason) to steal those documents in the first place. I can’t believe people aren’t more outraged about that. Many people who will vote for him know it was wrong but will overlook it and vote for him anyway. It’s outrageous!
They can’t even properly sentence Trump for campaign finance violations. Good luck getting him on treason.
Well exactly
I’m so glad he cleared that up /s
He sounds too old to be president. His brain has clearly turned to mush.
Plot twist: this is from 2016!
(Okay, not really, but it may as well have been. He’s a demented sociopathic conman, his mental buffer is tiny and keeps getting smaller.)
That was my first thought, that he was having a stroke.
And seriously, he’s in the same realm as Joe. The same thing can happen to him if it hasn’t already.
We need an age cap. It’s too dangerous not to have one.
Syphilis brain for sure
Taken from this long speech:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kOotP_Ys92k?si=Ddv-PhJhQGMJgVd2
Time stamp 3:17:29 for the relevant bit with a smidge more context.
He reads the snake poem/lyrics at every campaign event. His events go so cultish at the end when the music ramps up, and he does his prepared speech, it’s all so weird. I get why people would go though, it’s a cult of personality for sure.
I am unaware of this, he reads a poem at every speaking event?
Yes, has done for every campaign related event, over two campaigns now, there’s probably hundreds of recordings of him doing it, different events, different cities, but always the same poem… It’s technically lyrics to a song, but he reads it as a poem, and sometimes calls it that:
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=trump+reads+the+snake
Holy shit that’s the wildest thing I’ve never heard of.
I haven’t seen any mainstream satire about this. It’s so funny that he reads a “poem” like a little bedtime story at all his events about the scary immigrant coming to bite us. It’s an awful message but that’s so wild
Yep, it’s wild. But rather than be a bed time story - it appears to be a highlight of his campaign events.
Usually his events are like an hour of him ranting and riffing, people just getting to see him talk… Usually half way or two thirds of the way through he’ll notice the crowd getting sleepy or losing interest, and he’ll say "do you wanna hear The Snake poem?" - and the crowd will cheer.
Sometimes near the end, they’ll join in with the words… Then he’ll go back to just talking about whatever he wants. Then often without warning you’ll start to hear this music ramping up, and he’ll go into this prepared verbatim speech with the music in the background getting louder and louder.
“Whilst immigrants flow across our boards and gangs cause chaos on our streets only I Donald J Trump was capable of stopping the boarder crisis…”
Same swelling music, same faster paced campaign speech over it - always at the end of his events. The events are very much rituals. Like going to church, because it’s a cult of personality.
Having one of these campaign events on in the background of what you’re doing and half tuning out of it whilst going about your day is a very strange experience. Like something out of a TV show. An American cult of personality playing out in real time. It becomes obvious he was giving people’s lives meaning and zest.
…and I agree with your reading of the poem’s meaning. It’s anti-immigrant, “save our women”, white nationalist type of stuff. But it’s very clever, because the original lyrics were written by a black guy (it’s some song from the 70s), so he can use that if he’s accused of it being racist. So he’s really got his bases covered.
The way he reads it, it’s very sly, because maybe it’s about the democrats, or foreign aid, or the media, or the disabled. Accuse everyone else of being a snake, so no one’s looking at YOU as the snake.
I think it’s the kind of thing his mentor, Roy Cohn would have taught him. Roy was a gay lawyer for the mafia, who loved discos, young blonde men, and being a psychopathic tyrant, and Trump used “Ready-Mix” brand concrete for all his buildings in NYC, a brand/type of concrete the Mafia exclusively controlled the supply of.
Roy Cohn also collected toy frogs, and I think it’s interesting the alt-right used a frog (pepe) as their mascot. Perhaps Trump paying homage to Roy.
Even more context just makes it even more ridiculous.
Kamala really needs to take him up on that cognitive test challenge he gave to Biden.
Candidate, candidate, camera, TV
I got about 1/3 through this and then my brain just shut down and refused to continue. Kind of like the literary equivelent of Foul Old Rons smell.
How can I give more than one upvote!
This is the perfect analogy, taking an actual literary genius who uses words to describe the indescribable and mapping it to the indescribable ramblings of the ‘stable genius’
At least yours lasted longer than his did.
I’d get a lot of amusement out of an LLM based entirely off of Trump ramblings
Pretty sure I’ve seen that somewhere. It’s fun for a bit, then it just gets depressing.
No, because you know that’s the one the sentient AI will covet and use to subjugate the human race.
Just watch trump speeches. There’s no difference.
Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you’d you would you could you’d do you wi you wants you you could do so you you’d do you you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?
“Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?” - Donald Trump
Some people are saying he said it first.
Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
I can usually cobble together some idea of what he’s rambling about. This is utter nonsense.
What a fucking moron.
Someone put this man in the highest seat of power you can think of! Right now!
It’s starting to make sense how 19th century people could fall for literal snake oil salesman, but would never elect a clown like Trump. He couldn’t exist if you only learned about him through print.
Been saying for years, since I first read a bland speech transcription, listening to and reading Trump are very different experiences.
I don’t really think so. That’s what all his speeches have sounded like to me. If he stays on the teleprompter he can do OK, not good but not terrible either, but he rarely stays on the teleprompter. This is what it sounds like when he improvises. Still, some people listen to that schizophrenic-stream-of-consciousness and hear a great orator. That’s something I’ll never understand.
It’s a different way of processing information. It’s a flow rather than discrete packets of information being decoded and given meaning. Interestingly, there are stong parallels with Ebonics. A lot of hip hop uses this. If you tried to transcribe many hip hop verses as prose, they would make no sense, but given the general context and the vibe and tone of what’s being said, you get the meaning.
It’s also similar to the kind of baby talk that you might give to a pet. Why do you always call your cat, whose given name is Bartholomew, “Dingly Wingly / Dinglebutt / Dingity dogg”? The specific, discrete, quantised definition of what you’re saying doesn’t make sense. But “doggo” conveys a very different meaning than “dog”. Animals have a limited grasp of English, but they understand tone and intent.
This also means that these forms of language / communication are rapidly evolving since they’re based on similar context and events and aren’t beholden to a strict list of defined meanings. The connotation of a word is far more meaningful than the definition.
Trump says, “I ride down the electric.” That’s a nonsense phrase. But what does the word “electric” feel like to a right winger? You can imagine a word cloud with “poorly constructed”, “scam”, “dangerous”, “overhyped”, “expensive”, and of course the ever popular “liberal” but also some things that are difficult to put into words. A sense that we are better than them because they spend a lot of money on sketchy tech but we believe in the tried and true old ways. A feeling that they think they’re so smart but we know the truth of the world. A house of cards propped up by technology and no soul, which will inevitably collapse at any minute. Trump conveys all this in a word, and his followers understand all this in a word, and they all do it without thinking. It’s shorthand. They communicate almost nonverbally. And if you’re not part of the in-group, you don’t have the context to understand the flow of the speech.
I appreciate your effort in understanding the processes at play but it seems like it would be much simpler to summarize by saying “they’re dumb”. It may be reductionist but I don’t think it’s inaccurate.
No you’re absolutely right. It’s incredibly dumb. I just attempted to explain the flavor of dumb.
