How Trump's Verbal Slips Could Weaken His Attacks on Biden's Age

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of Donald Trump’s new comedic bits at his rallies features him impersonating the current commander in chief with an over-the-top caricature mocking President Joe Biden’s age.

With droopy eyelids and mouth agape, Trump stammers and mumbles. He squints. His arms flap. He shuffles his feet and wanders laggardly across the stage. A burst of laughter and applause erupts from the crowd as he feigns confusion by turning and pointing to invisible supporters, as if he does not realize his back is to them.

But his recent campaign events have also featured less deliberate stumbles. Trump has had a string of unforced gaffes, garble and general disjointedness that go beyond his usual discursive nature, and that his Republican rivals are pointing to as signs of his declining performance.

On Sunday in Sioux City, Iowa, Trump wrongfully thanked supporters of Sioux Falls, a South Dakota town about 75 miles away, correcting himself only after being pulled aside onstage and informed of the error.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-verbal-slips-could-weaken-115751706.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. After a few days, he never said it.

[Turbineguy]

2. We should trade trump for the hostages in Gaza.

[TwilightZone]

3. He's been making gaffes like this since day one.

It will make no difference. If 30,000 lies during his administration and eight years of constant incoherent babble haven't swayed people by now, a couple of gaffes aren't going to.

[NCIndie]

6. 100% correct. Yet, somehow, we always think that "This is one that gets him."

When he is finally out of the picture, his supporters will pretend that they never really supported him.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

4. So the traitor media has gotten the instructions

To begin the process of painting their traitor hero as senile, while their corporate masters find a new puppet--er, replacement for him.

But his recent campaign events have also featured less deliberate stumbles. Trump has had a string of unforced gaffes, garble and general disjointedness that go beyond his usual discursive nature, and that his Republican rivals are pointing to as signs of his declining performance.

[gratuitous]

8. Which means it's up to us to do the heavy lifting

The popular media aren't going to focus on the defendant's decline; as Les Moonves told us, the defendant is just too good for the bottom line, and as long as that goose keeps delivering golden eggs, they'll cover for him.

Which means we have to point it out. Every time. As exhausting as that is, it's got to be us who keeps in the public mind that the defendant didn't know where he was. No excuses. No, "Oh, it's easy to confuse Sioux Falls with Sioux City, anyone could do it." Do you see the defendant's flying monkeys saying anyone could stumble going up the steps on Air Force One? You do not.

And our natural reticence has to take a back seat. Too often we figure that if we say something once, everyone gets it and we don't have to say it anymore. Keep bringing up the defendant's rants and misstatements. This will cause his flying monkeys to impotently grind their teeth, and who knows - someone could very well be hearing about it for the first time.

[NCIndie]

5. It seems that we never learn about Trump and those like him.

He is shameless. He doesn't care about being caught in lies or hypocrisy or inconsistencies. And neither do his supporters.

This has been true about Limbaugh, GW Bush, Reagan, and Republicans in Congress. And we never learn this about them.

[cstanleytech]

7. So Trumps having performance anxiety? Maybe he needs an increase in his usual daily dose of Viagra?