Have you been hearing the comments about Donald Trump’s recent speeches that I have been hearing or reading about?
After his recent rally in Mosinee, WI, in front of about 7,000 people, some of whom reportedly left before he finished, one of my smart friends commented, “He’s off his rocker.”
His recent speeches have been long and rambling over many disconnected topics. He slurred some words; he was factually way off the mark many times; and he wildly exaggerated scenarios. His incoherence raised the likelihood that he has some level of early dementia. He, ironically, accused Joe Biden of losing his marbles. In psychological terms that’s called projection.
Trump behind bullet-proof glass in Mosinee
His Mosinee speech lasted an hour and 58 minutes, which is one very long speech. He spoke almost 7,000 words, which is about a third of an average book.
Trump’s 78 years and impaired language have become a major issue. Kamala Harris will probably not level that charge. She doesn’t have to. His verbal dysfunction gets more glaring with each Trump appearance. (This column was written before the Tuesday debate).
Heather Cox Richardson, a left -of-center historian columnist, commented on his rant in Mosinee, “Whatever has caused it, Trump seems utterly off his pins, embracing wild conspiracy theories and, as his hopes of winning the election appear to be crumbling, threatening vengeance with a dogged fury that he used to be able to hide.”
My head hurt as I read through a word-for-word transcript of his Mosinee speech. It was disjointed, and rife with factual errors. Here is one example:
“I’ve been indicted more than Al Capone. I say it all the time. He’s tough as hell. He would take him (referring to a guy in the front row), out to dinner. If he didn’t like him, you were gone. You would never be found again. You would be in the foundation of a Wisconsin building.”
Whaaat?
Here’s another ramble: “Oh, that’s nice. Kamala supports being able to take minor children and perform change operations. Take them away from their parents, perform change operation and send them back home. You’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ‘Jimmie, I love you so much. Go have a good day at school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation. Can you, ever imagine this? What the hell is going on with our country?”
Obviously, this scenario never happens. It’s black fantasy.
Here’s one more example of conjured exaggeration: “Tim (Walz) allowed abortions in the 9th month and babies to be executed after birth.”
Walz never contemplated, proposed or carried out anything of that extreme nature.
Here’s one more: “They will have 100 million of these people (migrants) here (in this country) in another four years.”
That’s an unbelievable number. The level of immigration has actually decreased over the last four years.
Here’s what a White House observer, Andrew Egger, wrote: “Donald Trump’s rhetoric has only ever really been constrained by one thing: His lizard-brain sense of what he can get away with.”
If you don’t believe that Trump uttered these words in Mosinee, go to c-Span.org and see the complete transcript and read it for yourself.
If you do that homework, take a couple of aspirins before you read the it, because your head is going to hurt, too, as you try to fathom Trump’s chaotic language.
