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Commentators were almost speechless Wednesday evening as they tried to describe what can only be seen as a candidate coming unglued at the criticism he's endured since becoming the GOP’s presumptive nominee. On MSNBC, one guest called it “unhinged” while another called it a “rambling variety show.”
If you took Donald Trump's single worst moments over the last several weeks and wrapped them into a free-association grab bag of blunders, this is the speech you would get. And we use the word "speech" in the loosest sense of someone standing at a podium talking to people, because the only theme that seemed to connect the dots between Trump's audible synaptic misfires was that they came from a flame-throwing narcissist who's absolutely certain he doesn't suck as bigly as everyone says he does.
Amid the meltdown, Trump served up a meandering explanation of his Brexit gaffe (he was just responding to a reporter question), relitigated the Star of David controversy(it's just a “sheriff's star”), noted that his tangential Saddam Hussein references Tuesday were perfectly on point (he read from notes, by god!), assured us that he's putting on a "great convention" (his relatives are speaking), added that "the women are liking me a lot lately" (all that terror talk really does it for ‘em) and really, just a lot, lot more. Let's tease out a few points below and add some video for your viewing pleasure.
On Brexit
One of the questions was, Mr. Trump, if the pound goes down, how will Turnberry do? So I say, I didn't bring this up. I said, look, here's what happens—if the pound goes down, Turnberry will do very well because a lot of people are going to travel to the UK, they'll come to Scotland, Turnberry's going to do very well, if the pound goes down. Ok, period. That's it. I answered the question. Next day, it's in an ad by Crooked Hillary Clinton, and I'm all over the place. But they don't show the question. Here's the thing. They start off—did you hear Donald Trump? All he talked about was his resort, and they show me. They don't show the question. If the pound goes down, Turnberry's going to do very well. Then they gave me a golf club. I said, I don't want to touch it. I don't want to touch golf. I'm leaving. I inspected the hotel, I inspected the courts. I said Eric Trump, you did a great job. I'm getting the hell out of here now. I want to be back campaigning. I want to get out. Congratulations. My boy, I love you. Come up, Eric. I love you, my boy. I love you. That's my 6'6" boy. But he'll always be my boy, right? So I said, I'm out of here. I'm going. I'm leaving. I've gotta go.
Trump droned on and on until he finally concluded that the Clinton ad was very "dishonest" because it showed him using a golf club. "I never touched a club," he said emphatically.
Well, that settles that.
On Saddam Hussein
So last night we had this [speech]. I wake up and I hear: Number One, I love Saddam Hussein—I hate Saddam Hussein. But I love Saddam Hussein according to the press because they're dishonest as hell. They heard what I said. And Number Two—and they said it very, very strongly—they said, he should have spoken about Hillary Clinton longer. Now I wrote out four pages that I wrote out. And I read it, point by point by point. And after a long time. I don't know, many, many minutes. Ya know, I've got thousands of people. And this really stupid guy, Chuck Todd. I won't use his name. I refuse to use his name. I refuse to call him sleepy eyes. I am not going to call him sleepy eyes anymore. But he's talking about, he had an opportunity to hit Hillary Clinton. Did you see what I did to her last night? Am I correct? I mean, it got to a point. I was hitting her so hard. And the problem is I'm a professional. And I'm hitting her so hard. And I know it doesn't mean anything because the system is fixed and it's rigged and it's broken.
Four whole hand-written pages! WOW—and he read them all, point by bloody point. And his problem is: He's a professional!
That's pretty telling, all in all.
And then, there's the Star of David: "I said, you should not have taken it down... You should have left it up."
Finally, the only reason the star got out was Hillary Clinton. "She sent it out. She's the one who started the dialogue."
Nailed it, Donald! Don't you listen to a word they say.
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