Great piece about how incomprehensible Trump is -- word salad

[Anonymous]

https://overcast.fm/+BmH6BwCEU/21:26

Slate Podcast, starts about 9 minutes from the end. Wow, Trump sounds like his mental faculties are breaking down.

Look at Trump's "sentences" -- these aren't even real thoughts. It sounds like when my grandpa was suffering with dementia. Especially the bold below. WTF

LAUER: But yesterday, you actually told us a little bit about your plan in your speech. You said this. Quote, “We’re going to convene my top generals and they will have 30 days to submit a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS.” So is the plan you’ve been hiding this whole time asking someone else for their plan?
TRUMP: No. But when I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn’t — I may love what the generals come back with. I will convene…
LAUER: But you have your own plan?
TRUMP: I have a plan. But I want to be — I don’t want to — look. I have a very substantial chance of winning. Make America great again. We’re going to make America great again. I have a substantial chance of winning. If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is.
LAUER: But you’re going to…
TRUMP: And let me tell you, if I like maybe a combination of my plan and the generals’ plan, or the generals’ plan, if I like their plan, Matt, I’m not going to call you up and say, “Matt, we have a great plan.” This is what Obama does. “We’re going to leave Iraq on a certain day.”
LAUER: But you’re going to convene a panel of generals, and you’ve already said you know more about ISIS than those generals do.
TRUMP: Well, they’ll probably be different generals, to be honest with you. I mean, I’m looking at the generals, today, you probably saw, I have a piece of paper here, I could show it, 88 generals and admirals endorsed me today.
(CROSSTALK)
LAUER: It’s a numbers game. Hillary Clinton claims more numbers.
TRUMP: Well, it’s not really — it’s not — yeah, numbers. People that have been losing for us for a long period of time. I mean, the fact is, we have had the worst and you could even say the dumbest foreign policy. Our results are so bad. We would have been better off had we never, ever spent $2 in that part of the world.
LAUER: You recently — you recently received two intelligence briefings.
TRUMP: Yes, I did.
LAUER: Did anything in that briefing, without going into specifics, shock or alarm you?
TRUMP: Yes. Very much so.
LAUER: Did you learn new things in that briefing?
TRUMP: First of all, I have great respect for the people that gave us the briefings. We — they were terrific people. They were experts on Iraq and Iran and different parts of — and Russia. But, yes, there was one thing that shocked me. And it just seems to me that what they said President Obama and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who is another total disaster, did exactly the opposite.

[Anonymous]

I think most intelligent, or even semi-intelligent people realize he is a hot mess without a teleprompter. What do you expect from a guy who speaks at a 4th grade level?

[Anonymous]

He's word salad in the same way Sarah Palin is. She's lots more poetic about it. She doesn't even try for sentences. Just strings phrases together, that's all that matters, 'cuz the fat cats is getting fatter, ... so we gotta make it hotter! Go mama grizzlies! Drill baby drill, eat what you kill!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's word salad in the same way Sarah Palin is. She's lots more poetic about it. She doesn't even try for sentences. Just strings phrases together, that's all that matters, 'cuz the fat cats is getting fatter, ... so we gotta make it hotter! Go mama grizzlies! Drill baby drill, eat what you kill!

I agree. These people are not appealing to your intellect. He could say literally anything and his supporters would cheer him on. They love him for what he represents in their mind, which is to say a successful white male figure who will restore the "good old days".