Donald Trump’s public appearances tend to follow a pattern. The former president will have a message he intends to deliver, and he’ll have a teleprompter to guide his rhetorical path, but the Republican will invariably ramble, sharing weird and random thoughts about all sorts of things.
To hear the GOP candidate tell it, his stream-of-consciousness nonsense only appears to be incoherent.
“You know, I do the weave,” Trump boasted last week. “You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”
For one thing, the idea that the former president hangs out with “like, English professors” is hilarious. For another, there’s no hidden genius in Trump’s rambling. He seems to enjoy sharing bizarre ideas, theories, and the details of conversations that occurred only in his mind. There’s nothing “brilliant” about it.
Elaine Godfrey wrote for The Atlantic this week about one of the GOP candidate’s latest gems.
During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me — a seasoned visitor to Trump’s theme park of hyperbole — look around in confusion at the people around me in the audience. Said Trump: “The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child.”
Not to put too fine a point on this, but Trump’s claim was plainly delusional. The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries.
But while the rhetoric was certainly ridiculous, it wasn’t altogether surprising.
Trump’s bizarre comments about “the transgender thing” came on the heels of the former president blaming wind power with people eating less bacon.
“You take a look at bacon and some of these products,” he told a Wisconsin audience last week. “Some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem.”
As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones responded, “I don’t know how you can even fact-check a tangent like that.”








