The former president jumped from topic to topic to topic during a stream-of-consciousness rant.
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The former president jumped from topic to topic to topic during a stream-of-consciousness rant.
Donald Trump’s rambling speech at times veered so far off-topic that critics raised new questions about his focus and mental capacity.
Trump
trashed Detroit while speaking in Detroit,
attempted to define the word “grocery,” and
got defensive about his crowd size as he spoke for three hours.
During one 90-second stretch, he jumped from manufacturing to Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets, to President
Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign amid COVID restrictions, to election conspiracy theories, and then to how the United States has been “abused” by other countries.
“This isn’t like Elon, with his rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon where they want it to land or he gets the engines back,”. “That was the first, I really, I said ‘who the hell did that.’ I saw engines about three, four years ago. These things were coming, cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom!”
The word “circle” then set Trump in a new direction.
“Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right?” Trump said, referring to circles placed on the ground in 2020 to help guests keep socially distant amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic. “He’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill ’em up.”
Trump then used that to launch into his grievances about the 2020 election and make references to his debunked conspiracy theories. “But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote, I don’t know, I don’t know, couldn’t fill up the eight circles,” Trump said, then riffed some more:
When he was still running against Biden, Trump accused his rival of cognitive problems and challenged him to take a
cognitive test.
Now, however, critics are
raising those same questions about Trump ― and many were baffled and alarmed by his latest speech