Does #DonaldTrump have Dementia?
Does #DonaldTrump have Dementia? This was very hard to read. But, I guess , in #TrumpNation incoherent gibberish is considered stately.
Originally shared by David Brin
Seriously. Read every word of this recent AP interview with our president. It is verbatim, so he’s not being treated unfairly… though note how many places were marked “unintelligible.”
Let’s be fair. I am interviewed a lot and I’m well aware that spoken English doesn’t always look so good, when directly transcribed. I try to speak in sentences and paragraphs, as does any careful and experienced hand. Still – despite lots of practice – I know there’ll be passages that come across either unclear or sounding repetitious or distracted. We should make allowances. And yet, even so –
-- see if you can pick out one passage, even one, that is cogent and/or uttered as an adult might speak. One. Even one. Heck, find more than a couple that are coherent at any level.
BTW, which seems more likely, that we just saved $70 million on each F35 plane because of hard audits set in motion months ago by the Obama Administration… or because Donald Trump shouted the word “Boeing!” at Lockheed. (The former is what actually happened.) Even if there weren’t firm contracts, does he believe Boeing could underbid the contractor who is now fully tooled and in production, just because the president shouts their name as an incantation? Bluffing your partners out of some real estate is not the same as managing a complex, 21st Century defense contract.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/transcript-of-ap-interview-with-trump/2017/04/23/7c269138-284b-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html?utm_term=.907e0964e4f4
Originally shared by David Brin
Seriously. Read every word of this recent AP interview with our president. It is verbatim, so he’s not being treated unfairly… though note how many places were marked “unintelligible.”
Let’s be fair. I am interviewed a lot and I’m well aware that spoken English doesn’t always look so good, when directly transcribed. I try to speak in sentences and paragraphs, as does any careful and experienced hand. Still – despite lots of practice – I know there’ll be passages that come across either unclear or sounding repetitious or distracted. We should make allowances. And yet, even so –
-- see if you can pick out one passage, even one, that is cogent and/or uttered as an adult might speak. One. Even one. Heck, find more than a couple that are coherent at any level.
BTW, which seems more likely, that we just saved $70 million on each F35 plane because of hard audits set in motion months ago by the Obama Administration… or because Donald Trump shouted the word “Boeing!” at Lockheed. (The former is what actually happened.) Even if there weren’t firm contracts, does he believe Boeing could underbid the contractor who is now fully tooled and in production, just because the president shouts their name as an incantation? Bluffing your partners out of some real estate is not the same as managing a complex, 21st Century defense contract.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/transcript-of-ap-interview-with-trump/2017/04/23/7c269138-284b-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html?utm_term=.907e0964e4f4
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Not sure why... but reading the transcript gave me a flashback to a Ronald R moment...