Reporters who quote ums and ahs only make themselves look bad

I find myself conflicted about ⊥rump…

I have derived considerable delight at mocking his word salad transcripts. But I wonder now if those verbatim transcriptions of his speeches are unfair.

It is marginally easier to follow his meaning when I watch the video, although most of his ideas are even more nauseating when accompanied by his voice.

I suppose the distinction is that ⊥rump doesn’t so much abuse filler words, as filler sentence fragments. He’ll seemingly abandon a point he’s trying to make and insert upwards of half a dozen barely tangentially related parenthetical comments before finally, finally getting back ‘round to the point he seemingly abandoned 100 words ago.

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