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Four of Trump’s Most Meandering Remarks This Week
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 20, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Michael C. Bender

Posted on 10/20/2024 12:51:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

One of the truisms of Trump World is that being viewed as boring is a sin more deadly than being wrong.

On the campaign trail, former President Donald J. Trump often takes that to mean he must go off-script and veer off message. His critics say such detours are a troubling sign of his incoherence and raise questions about his age and cognitive health. Many of his supporters and allies see his circular way of speaking, which he calls “the weave,” as entertaining and not alarming. The partisan debate over the implications of Mr. Trump’s meandering speech has only intensified in the final stage of the race.

Here are four examples of Mr. Trump’s rambling from just this past week.

Schoolchildren asked him about boyhood heroes. He ended up at the border wall.

It was a softball question, from a 10-year-old. Mr. Trump’s response was more of a knuckleball.

A group of children asked Mr. Trump questions on Friday on “Fox & Friends.” Asked to name his favorite president when he was a child, Mr. Trump at first cited one who was elected when he was 34 (Ronald Reagan). Then he ventured onto surprising terrain, including every child’s favorite subject, the revised NAFTA trade deal known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

DANIEL: President Trump, I’m Daniel. And I’m 10. And I’m from Tennessee. What was your favorite president when you were little?

DONALD TRUMP: So I liked Ronald Reagan. I thought he was, um, look — I did not love his trade policy. I’m a very good trade — I have made some great trade deals for us — the U.S.M.C.A. That wasn’t his strength, but he had a great dignity about him, Ronald Reagan. You could say, “There’s our president,” more than any of the others. Really, any...

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hey, U-anus,
No one reads the crap coming from NY Lies anymore. Your attempts to force their garbage down our throats are pathetic. No one going to read your “cut-n-paste” clumsy posts, go away.


21 posted on 10/20/2024 2:01:28 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly. Kamala’s meandering doesn’t count.


22 posted on 10/20/2024 2:04:38 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

23 posted on 10/20/2024 2:10:16 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Can we please get back the candidate that knows how to give a speech?


24 posted on 10/20/2024 2:10:39 PM PDT by TigersEye ("Fascist" is what communists call American patriots.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes and the NYT are still confused.


25 posted on 10/20/2024 2:13:40 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

E. Pluribus Unum, the voice of the New York Times on Free Republic. No need to buy the Times, EPU will force feed its proopaganda to you for free.


26 posted on 10/20/2024 2:14:14 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: BobL; Gary from Dayton

Outside shot, but I think NJ is in play. Look what happened in the governor’s race- they damned near lost it. As to NY, best case for Trump I still think it’s Harris by 5 points


27 posted on 10/20/2024 2:17:12 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looks like e pluribus unum has a life-changing man crush on the president. Bunch of NYT posts in a row.

Sort of a male Play Misty For Me vibe.


28 posted on 10/20/2024 2:31:23 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looks like e pluribus unum has a life-changing man crush on the president. Bunch of NYT posts in a row.

Sort of a male Play Misty For Me vibe.


29 posted on 10/20/2024 2:31:25 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looks like e pluribus unum has a life-changing man crush on the president. Bunch of NYT posts in a row.

Sort of a male Play Misty For Me vibe.


30 posted on 10/20/2024 2:31:34 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Looks like e pluribus unum has a life-changing man crush on the president. Bunch of NYT posts in a row.

Sort of a male Play Misty For Me vibe.


31 posted on 10/20/2024 2:31:35 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Night Hides Not

Four in a row from EPU


32 posted on 10/20/2024 2:32:29 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Every article from The Slimes is an unhinged screed of hatred and bias.


33 posted on 10/20/2024 2:32:49 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Bookshelf
Please stop posting to me.


34 posted on 10/20/2024 2:33:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It's a REALLY apparent sign that the Heelsup campaign is in DEEP trouble when the MSM intensifies their assault on Trump, this late in the game.

MULTIPLE NYT articles point toward a massive collapse of their Candidate.

The Kenyan (though he won all "57" States), can't spell Tuscon, but NO MSM mention of THAT.

35 posted on 10/20/2024 2:34:44 PM PDT by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: JerseyDvl
Every article from The Slimes is an unhinged screed of hatred and bias.

Which is confirmation that they are losing, and losing big, and they know it.

I find it highly encouraging, but I am going to vote early and often anyway, just to be sure.

36 posted on 10/20/2024 2:35:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the Times had a head, we’d be in the middle of a 1 megaton explosion.


37 posted on 10/20/2024 2:36:45 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It’s my favorite Holiday time at FR: Fear Porn Season)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

so this is about the 7th or 8th anti-Trump barrage out of the NYSlimes’ Big Lie smear department, today

NYT is seriously projecting of course but this is normal nowadays for the CommieNazi leftwing.

NYT is obviously very desperate backing the Big Time Loser “candidate” IneligibleHarris

if he could secure an honest vote count in NY, Trump just could win the state as he is more and more popular...
(No, I doubt it is possible to get an honest tally but the fact of Trump’s popularity is evident)


38 posted on 10/20/2024 2:51:25 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Whatsamattah coward. You don’t like to be fingered for posting propaganda. I have been with FR practically from its inception and yours is the most blatant act of anti-Conservative postings I have ever encountered.


39 posted on 10/20/2024 3:10:19 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf
Whatsamattah coward. You don’t like to be fingered for posting propaganda. I have been with FR practically from its inception and yours is the most blatant act of anti-Conservative postings I have ever encountered.

For the second time, please stop stalking/harassing me.


40 posted on 10/20/2024 3:15:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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