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Trump rebrands his ramblings as ‘I do the weave’ – but is he just losing it? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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For those baffled by Donald Trump’s forays into meandering discourses about electrocution, bacons sales or cannibal killers at his recent political rallies, the former US president had an explanation.

Trump assured supporters in Pennsylvania on Saturday that what might look like incoherent ramblings as he frequently departed from his scripted speech were instead indicators of his brilliance that impressed other great minds.

“I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I’ll talk about, like, nine different things that 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,’” he told a bemused audience.

“But the fake news, you know what they say, ‘He rambled.’ It’s not rambling. What you do is you get off a subject to mention another little tidbit, then you get back on to the subject, and you go through this and you do it for two hours, and you don’t even mispronounce one word.”

But, increasingly, many others are not persuaded, including some of his own supporters.

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[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me try this weave shit:

So I woke up, the sky is, opened my fridge, the best fridge, everybody, I got out bed, you know where you sleep, i have the best bed everyone knows that. Grabbed some blue sky with some clouds, big clouds because i got bacon, you know bacon, the best bacon like my pillow my pillow is great that cloud up there that bigly cloud that's because of windmills, you don't want windmills they're killing bacon and like i said you know bacon it's great i like it on my hamburgers you know hamburgers the best hamburgers have bacon but no windmills, it's not going to raid because that windmill and that cloud they don't mix they don't the windmill takes all the wind and that's why it's hot out but there's not global warming i use my blanket at night because it's soo cold because of the bacon or the windmills yeah the windmills are why it's cold they're bad Kamala likes windmills and let me tell you how bad they are, they're bad I know because I'm a very stable genius and the sky the sky it has another cloud you see that? do you do you see that? it's because of Joe Biden that's right it's Sleepy Joe's fault and let me tell you, Tesla and Elon great guy the best really smart guy not like Kamala no no not like her she wants to can you believe this can you? My bacon is getting cold it's the evil democrats fault....

Yeah wow, it's a lot harder than I thought, he must be some kind of genius.... OR the dementia is getting worse, much worse.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A dude I'd gone to school with tracked me down and started stalking me. The first time he showed up at my door he talked just like that. Seemed he's ended up on heavy drugs on the street and developed some severe psychosis.

Gotta say it was super weird reading that.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that sounds like psychosis, schizoprenia, or just really fucking high

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I sound like that when severely sleep deprived, like ive been awake for 5 days straight and am actively hallucinating levels of sleep deprivation. Mind you im usually actively trying to not do that but still.

Also I hallucinate porn for some fucking reason. How do I turn down the horny?