Everyone. Everyone should use a script and a teleprompter for important speeches. Obama would have used one. Trump should use one a lot more. A LOT MORE. When he doesn’t he’s a rambling mess. That isn’t really the worrying part.
I don’t think the flub is necessarily proof of either. You start reading out loud and tell me you don’t flub up a line. I will face time with the kiddo and read her Mindtrap questions, which are logic puzzles, basically. I’ll stumble on reading. I have a habit of reading too fast, not focusing on each word. So mixing up or stumbling over a word when reading doesn’t really give one a good sense of ones abilities. Does my kid read at a higher level than him? Probably. But they keep the scripts simple enough. That there would be what you would want to analyze. For the written down scripts, analyze what reading level they are at. I am betting like 9th grade or so. Maybe less, he uses pretty simple language, but also factor in that the writers may be also making it more appealing to their base who don’t like big fancy words.
Note - I’d personally challenge him to a game of Trivial Pursuit to the death.
Then again, I am not a practiced orator. He should have practiced this before - and if not, that’s on him. What is more telling his his flubs without reading. His word salad when just talking off the cuff. That is the more worrying thing where his cognitive abilities are called into question. I suppose that too could extend to mixing up words when reading, but as per above, that alone doesn’t mean anything conclusive. I’ve seen professionals on places like the David Pakman show say they worry about him having early on set stages of cognitive issues.
It’s not early onset. It’s right ontime for his age bracket. That’s why I really wish we had more young presidential hopefuls who aren’t likely to die of brainrot in office.
Just tell me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that whenever he gets on TV to make some similar announcement, his demeanor is so odd. I find it difficult to describe, but it seems to me that it’s not the bearing of someone who is truly sincere and sympathetic… but more like an attempt at playing a role that he has no concept of or experience with. I’m trying very hard to separate my impression from what we already know about him … and it’s so, so strange.
I think it’s just that he’s reading like a proud 10 year old. It’s hard for him; the effort of seeing words while also getting them to come out of his mouth takes real concentration. So much that he simply cannot also make an effort to also parse out as he reads just what he’s actually reading.
Oh for the day when someone manages to slip something onto the teleprompter that reveals this problem of his. “And as my people have been telling me, Mars is the only place now where I can still have sexual relations with pornograhic movie actresses, who seek urination on my grotesque bodily presence.” How long would he just keep plowing through it?
Didn’t bother to read the post, the links, or any of the preceding comments… because I can already guess, and I’ve already been far too angry for too much of the day.
I’ll look tomorrow; I know that whatever he said won’t be any less fucked up by then, but I’ll be in a better frame of mind to deal with it.
