Donald Trump

Independent UK  -  Timothy O’Brien, author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, told The Guardian that he believes the former president, who once dubbed himself a “very stable genius,” fully understands that he is saying more ludicrous things than ever and is trying to make up for it. “The reason he’s now offering these convoluted explanations of his speech patterns in his public appearances is because he’s hyper-aware that people have noted that he’s making even less sense than he used to,” O’Brien said. “What we’re seeing now is a reflection of someone who’s very troubled and very desperate.”....

Last week, the former president addressed his tendency to venture off topic. He bragged to a Johnstown, Pennsylvania crowd about the “weave,” or what he calls his tendency to wander in and out — often nonsensically — of multiple conversational threads before circling back to his original point.

“When I do the weave...I’ll talk about nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together,” Trump told the crowd before criticizing the “fake” media as having accused him of “rambling.” He further defended himself: “Friends of mine that are English professors, they say: ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen,’” Trump said, referring to the “weave.”...

While Trump claims the “weave” is strategic, many rally-goers could be confused by his rhetoric as he tends to leapfrog from topic to topic without any obvious connection. Take a Wisconsin rally last month, when Trump jumped from bacon to wind turbines in a single minute.

“You take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don’t eat bacon any more. We are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down, you know, this was caused by their horrible energy – wind. They want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow we have a little problem,” he told the La Crosse, Wisconsin crowd.

In another infamous moment that raised eyebrows, Trump’s July rant about electric boats shifted gears to a potential shark attack. He ended the tangent with a series of unusual questions: “Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?” The incident prompted thriller novelist Stephen King to equate Trump’s speech with “listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has that third drink.”

On top of the mental leaps, Trump also frequently mixes up elected officials. He has confused former president Barack Obama and Biden, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and California governor Jerry Brown, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley. He also accidentally called Elon Musk “Leon” at Saturday’s Wisconsin rally...

NBC News - Former President Donald Trump, who makes frequent false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen through rampant fraud, warned Saturday that he would attempt to imprison anyone who engages in "unscrupulous behavior" during the 2024 race results.The threat was issued in a post on Truth Social, his social media website, and repeated his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, accusing Democrats of "rampant Cheating and Skullduggery."

“The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again," he wrote. He continued, “Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”