Donald Trump boasts ‘very fertile brain’ as he defends rambling speeches

Donald Trump said he has a “very fertile brain” as he defended his rambling speeches at a rally in Wisconsin on Friday.

Public appearances by the former president seem more scattered and unfocused in recent months something New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman grew by CNN‘s Source show last month.

On Friday night in Milwaukee, responding to comments that his speeches were incoherent, the former president said: “I have a very fertile, very fertile brain, but it’s a weave and we do it, so you tell one story and you cover about 15 subplots, but you get to the final answer.”

Earlier in the speech, Trump explained what he meant by “weaving,” which he described as a way of speaking that is part of a narrative.

The former president said: “They used to say: he weaves, I don’t weave. I weave, do you know what weaving is? This is history.”

republican During the conversation, the candidate gestured with his hand, imitating weaving movements.

“When you tell a story, you realize there’s a little bit, but the point is you have to go back, then you tell the story and get to the end result, and you end up making another weave, and sometimes you make a weave out of intertwined,” Trump added.

The clip was posted on Harris’ campaign account on Xpreviously Twitterlater that night, and has since racked up over 320,000 views.

TRUMP: It’s an interweaving, you know, a little interweaving, right? You know, they used to say, these are stupid people, they used to say that he was talking, I don’t talk. I do weaving. You know what a weave is, it’s a story, and as you tell it you realize there’s a little… pic.twitter.com/OmTI8ReU11

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At other points during his rally in Milwaukee, the Republican presidential candidate acknowledged that some people called him a “cognitive disorder” and complained of problems with his microphonethreatening to “beat the hell out of people.”

At a rally in Michigan also on Friday, Trump talked about his “beautiful white skin” while discussing how running for president has prevented him from getting a decent tan.

Over the past few months, controversy has continued over Trump’s answers to questions and disjointed speeches.

In mid-October Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwaite interrupted Trump during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago: to remind him that the question he asked was about tariffs, not the wars Trump was discussing.

Trump answered a question different from the one asked several times in the same interview, at one point talking about Ministry of Justice Virginia voter roll lawsuit when asked about breakup Alphabet, Googleparent company.

The former president’s niece Mary also dismissed Trump’s responses at the New York Economic Club in September as “incoherent riffs” when Republican candidate suggested tariffs would lower child care costs.

Commenting on his response, Mary said: “I defy anyone who has actually tried to pick up the thread of this gibberish to tell me what it means. Nobody can.”

Newsweek contacted the Trump campaign after hours by email for comment.

Update, 11/02/24 12:21 pm ET: This article has been updated with additional information.

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