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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.
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.
Dan Quayle is the infamous "potato" politician.
English isn't a particularly easy language, on a relative basis, at least for those who don't study it academically at the post-grad level. "An" vs "A" is one of the last errors I'd ever fault someone for, because it's poorly defined and tends to have precious little impact on the actual meaning of the overall sentence.
Is it a marginally annoying error when I "know" what's correct in my head and I'm listening to someone else make the error? For sure. Would I ever point it out to someone on their second, third, or fourth language? Not a chance, because it's largely an irrelevancy and also damnably difficult to explain efficiently as a "rule".
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.
This is a sample from a speech where he talks non-stop for 82 minutes.
If you started playing the movie Toy Story the moment he first speaks, the end credits would finish, and there would still be another full minute before he finally stops talking again.
snif
Demented Donald. Not sure why the Repubs want to run a geriatric brainlet in steep decline.
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.
At least yours lasted longer than his did.
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'
Kamala really needs to take him up on that cognitive test challenge he gave to Biden.
Candidate, candidate, camera, TV
I'd get a lot of amusement out of an LLM based entirely off of Trump ramblings
No, because you know that's the one the sentient AI will covet and use to subjugate the human race.
Pretty sure I've seen that somewhere. It's fun for a bit, then it just gets depressing.
Just watch trump speeches. There’s no difference.
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 location~~ should 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
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.