Sep 3, 2024
Trump Says His Rambling Is Brilliant
Former President Donald Trump argues that there's a brilliance to his madness. Plus, a compilation of him saying, "bing bong."
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You know I do the weave.
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.
And friends of mine that are like
English professors, they say it's
the most brilliant thing I've ever seen.
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And. But the fake news.
You know what they say, he rambled.
That's not rambling.
During a recent rally,
Donald Trump wanted to make sure
that you know that he is not a rambler.
He's not a rambling man. Okay?
In fact, the way he speaks
is kind of brilliant.
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He's doing the weaving, doing the weaving,
and then it all comes together.
Now, there's a 0% chance that Trump has
any friends that are English teachers.
- Let's get that out of the way.
- That's English professors.
And he has so many of them
that his English professor friends
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keep telling him, oh, I do declare,
I really want to give you credit
for the amazing weave you were doing.
Lots of weaving.
They actually usually English professors
apparently have to have that accent.
And and and they apparently teach that in
their syllabus, you know, if you want to,
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to tell an effective story,
what you do is go off on a lot of tangents
totally, and never come back to them.
And we call them that, the weave,
so no one can keep up with you.
We teach it in all the English classes.
It is the mark of a fantastic storyteller.
And in fact, Trump continues to explain
just how brilliant his technique is
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in the next clip.
When you have,
what you do is you get off a subject
to mention another little tidbit,
then you get back onto the subject
and you go through this
and you do it for two hours
and you don't even mispronounce one word.
And they say he had 100,000 people,
you know, new Jersey.
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We had 107,000 people.
They never would like to report it.
So I say it.
But in Wildwood, new Jersey,
they announced 107,000 people.
And then they say, well, look at this.
I mean, if you gave me a big arena,
I would have we would have said
45,000 people or something.
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But it is rather brilliant.
But they say, yes, he rambled.
Okay, I have a lot to say.
So look I actually think that to some
extent his speaking style is effective,
but there's also a huge downside
that he's not taking into account.
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So what do I mean when I say
speaking style is effective?
Well, he speaks like
a common person, right?
Like he doesn't have this professorial way
of communicating with people.
And that leads people to think
that he is more authentic.
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Right?
He's a real person. He's authentic.
So when it comes to that,
I don't really think he needs
to get defensive or defend himself.
But there's a huge downside to him kind of
going off on all these tangents, and it's
that sometimes he'll say something that
sounds really bad or really provocative,
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and then he'll go off message
and talk about something else
and then go back to the provocative thing
and kind of explain himself,
which opens up an opportunity for him
to be taken out of context, because it's
very easy to take him out of context.
That's happened a million times before.
So now whenever the media is,
like freaking out about something he said,
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I feel like I don't feel like
I definitely need to go back
and watch the entire rally speech so I can
understand what he meant in context.
But yeah, this whole like I speak
brilliantly and all the English professors
are super proud of how brilliant I am
in my communication style.
There's a downside for you, Trump.
And you should be aware of that.
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Yeah, there's two downsides
I agree on the upside.
It gives you the aura of authenticity
without actually having to be honest.
And that's a huge advantage for him.
And the Adam Schiff's of the world
are never going to understand that.
The Democrats drive me crazy
by sounding way too professorial,
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because they probably do actually
have English professors as friends.
But you've got to speak
like a normal person.
What's wrong with you?
But then Trump, come on brother.
So he's always rambled.
He's always gone off point,
but now it's at a different level.
That's why I was saying
it's the Mumbler versus the Rambler.
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Right.
And he's been rambling
out of control in this cycle.
And you can see him
starting to deteriorate.
And that's what's really
getting under his skin.
The fact that he's doing that, in fact,
in the middle of doing that little spiel
right there, he was like, no, they say
that I'm rambling, but I'm not rambling.
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Like when I was in Wildwood, new Jersey
and I had a big crowd size 107,000 people,
and they always lie about that.
But I say to you just did it.
You went off point
to talk about your crowd size
and never got back to your original point.
So this is not like I'm weaving it and
weaving it, and I'm doing it on purpose.
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Nobody thinks you're doing it on purpose
other than like die hard MAGA.
And you could like, do you could slap him
across the face and tell him you did it
as because you like him so much
and you were stroking them like a pet
and they'd be like, yes, I'm Trump's pet.
Yes. Right.
But other than those folks
who are like deep, deep in your cult,
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no one believes you.
- You sound ridiculous.
- Yeah.
I mean, look, he doesn't like
to read off a teleprompter.
He likes to speak off the cuff, and he
does so for an extended period of time.
And you're right, he loses his focus
and goes off on a million tangents.
In fact, here's an example.
And you know, when I was running
that I spoke to the leader of the Taliban.
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He they run the whole deal.
And I said, Abdul, don't even think
don't do it, Abdul, don't do it.
Because they were shooting.
They were killing our people
and they were really killing them.
Previous to me and main Obama.
They were killing him in the Obama
administration and with Biden.
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Biden. But how did he do in the debate?
Friend of mine said, sir, what did you do?
You.
I said, how good was I?
Tonight, sir,
you probably got him thrown out.
Now you're going to have to run
against somebody new.
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I said, I don't care,
I have to do what I have to do.
We have to do what we have to do. Right?
And I look forward to the debate with her.
But what happened?
So with Afghanistan, you know, I do the.
We've.
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- Don't do it.
- Don't do it.
Wait. We were talking about the Taliban.
What happened?
Now we're talking about the debate.
But he went back to it.
He did weave, okay?
He did.
That was a successful weave. Where?
The fair show in America. Okay.
I do this thing called the weave.
Nobody calls it the weave.
It's not a thing. You just made it up.
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Except for the fact that I'll
now start calling it the weave.
Every time I go off point. No, I mean.
Look, the weave is a little bit brilliant
and like is now going
to be stuck in our heads.
But I do want to go
to one other compilation of Donald Trump
and his speaking style.
Don't do it, Abdul. Don't.
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Don't do it, Abdul. I told Abdul.
Don't.
But honestly, like that way of speaking
I don't think you should get rid of.
But he needs to be more focused
on his message rather than going
in and out of, like, various topics.
And you lose track
of what he's talking about.
I speak for two hours.
Won't mispronounce one word like oranges.
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I mean origins,
I mean oranges, I mean origins.
Okay.
So here is a compilation
of Trump making bing bong sounds.
Bing bing bing.
Bing bing bing bing bong
bong bing bing bing bing.
Bing bing bing bing.
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Bing bing bong bing bing bing bing
bing bing bing bing bing bing
bing bing bing bing bing bing bong.
I just I just really appreciate that.
Wasn't that a character in Inside Out?
Bing bong.
Anyway, look at that part. I'm with Anna.
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I think it's funny that he does Bing bong.
His audience loves it, right?
I'm fine with that.
It makes him seem like a more real person.
Like this.
Making things up like the weave
is weird, right?
But doing this stuff, I do the weave.
Yeah.
Losing focus and forgetting what you're
talking about is not a brilliant strategy.
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No. He never intended it as a strategy.
He just can't help himself.
Exactly right.
But now he can't help himself
in rambling off point
and making the speeches more dull.
And even the Republicans are saying,
hey, man, you're losing your touch.
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We can't even tell
what you're talking about.
That happened. And it's getting boring.
Yeah, that happened at the RNC.
I mean, his RNC speech,
he started on script,
and then he decided to go off script.
The speech was way too long,
and the second half of it was, you know,
what you would expect
at a Trump rally where he loses focus.
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He goes in and out
of whatever topic he's discussing.
He goes off on tangents.
Not smart English professors,
not happy with it.
And look, he can't help respond to every
charge So we call him the Rambler.
Or I call him the Rambler.
The other people say he's rambling
and then he says, I'm not rambling,
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I'm not rambling, I'm weaving.
Well, overall, last thing I'd say
to Trump is don't do it, Abdul.
Don't do it. Don't do it.
Okay. Okay.
I'm amused at the thought
that you go to, like, a Taliban leader
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and you don't do it.
Abdul, don't do it.
And I'm amused that, like the Taliban,
guys can be like.
Oh. Oh, okay.
Oh, he said, don't do it. That'll do it.
No, you have to.
It's a negotiation.
It doesn't care what you say.
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He cares about the things that you're
offering as carrots and sticks.
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