Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
The media keeps harping on Trumpās supposed inability to be disciplined and stay on-message. Well now Mr. Trump, America's most renown self-professed Stable Genius has something to say:
On Friday, while speaking at a rally in Johnstown, Pa., Mr. Trump insisted that his oratory is not a campaign distraction but rather a rhetorical triumph.
āYou know, I do the weave,ā he said. āYou know what the weave is? Iāll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and itās like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, āItās the most brilliant thing Iāve ever seen.āā
Asked for examples of the technique, the Trump campaign provided what it called a āmasterclass weaveā ā a four-minute, 20-second video of the candidate speaking at a rally in Asheville, N.C., in August in which he bounces from energy bills to Hunter Bidenās laptop to Venezuelan tar to mental institutions in Caracas to migrant crime to āthe green new scamā to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Of course there are the usual naysayers out there:
In its disjointed way, it did all sort of seem to wend back to why he thinks he should be president again.
āUnlike Kamala Harris, who canāt put together a coherent sentence without a teleprompter, President Trump speaks for hours, telling multiple impressive stories at the same time,ā said Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump. āKamala Harris could never.ā
His campaign did not identify which English professor friends of his had complimented his style.
āI highly doubt that Donald Trump has any English professor friends,ā said Timothy OāBrien, a Trump biographer. āWhat this really reflects is that he is aware of the criticism that he is publicly saying nonlinear, nonsensical word salad, and he is trying to pretend there is a strategy or logic behind it when there isnāt.ā
On Friday, while speaking at a rally in Johnstown, Pa., Mr. Trump insisted that his oratory is not a campaign distraction but rather a rhetorical triumph.
āYou know, I do the weave,ā he said. āYou know what the weave is? Iāll talk about like nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and itās like, friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, āItās the most brilliant thing Iāve ever seen.āā
Asked for examples of the technique, the Trump campaign provided what it called a āmasterclass weaveā ā a four-minute, 20-second video of the candidate speaking at a rally in Asheville, N.C., in August in which he bounces from energy bills to Hunter Bidenās laptop to Venezuelan tar to mental institutions in Caracas to migrant crime to āthe green new scamā to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Of course there are the usual naysayers out there:
In its disjointed way, it did all sort of seem to wend back to why he thinks he should be president again.
āUnlike Kamala Harris, who canāt put together a coherent sentence without a teleprompter, President Trump speaks for hours, telling multiple impressive stories at the same time,ā said Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump. āKamala Harris could never.ā
His campaign did not identify which English professor friends of his had complimented his style.
āI highly doubt that Donald Trump has any English professor friends,ā said Timothy OāBrien, a Trump biographer. āWhat this really reflects is that he is aware of the criticism that he is publicly saying nonlinear, nonsensical word salad, and he is trying to pretend there is a strategy or logic behind it when there isnāt.ā
