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   Trump mixes up words, swerves among subjects in off-topic speech   
      
   The Republican nominee appeared tired and complained about his heightened   
   campaign schedule.   
      
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   By Sabrina Rodriguez   
   and   
   Isaac Arnsdorf   
   October 1, 2024 at 9:02 p.m. EDT   
   MILWAUKEE — Republican nominee Donald Trump spoke for 33 minutes before his   
   first mention of the ostensible focus of his remarks.   
   Signs reading “SCHOOL CHOICE,” “EDUCATION FREEDOM NOW” and “LET PARENTS   
   DECIDE” decorated a small auditorium, and a panel of speakers preceding the   
   former president focused on using public funds to let families choose   
   between public and private, especially religious, schools. Trump read from   
   a binder containing a prepared speech on the subject, and he switched   
   abruptly between the text and a jumble of other topics.   
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   “We can be nice and we can be politically incorrect, but the only thing   
   they’re going to do there is cheat on elections, and we just can’t let this   
   happen,” he said at one point. Without warning, he continued: “The city of   
   Milwaukee is the home of first and oldest choice program.”   
   He spoke of “a million Rambos.” “Turnarounds” and “gotaways” and “dead-head   
   spending.” He mixed up Iran with North Korea and strained to pronounce   
   United Arab Emirates. He marveled at Hurricane Helene coming so late in the   
   storm season, which typically runs through November. He falsely claimed   
   government agencies can’t name the U.S. population, and he compared the   
   conflict between Israel and Iran to “two kids fighting in the schoolyard.”   
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   Trump, 78, often speaks in a digressive, extemporaneous style that thrills   
   his fans at large-scale rallies. But Tuesday’s event, in front of almost   
   entirely reporters, was especially scattered and hard to follow. Polls show   
   voters’ concerns about Trump’s age and fitness have increased since   
   President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew and was replaced as the Democratic   
   nominee by Vice President Kamala Harris.   
   Trump spoke slowly and appeared tired. It was his second stop of the day,   
   and he has picked up the pace of campaigning in recent weeks.   
   “I think I’m booked every single day for 33 days,” he said at the end of   
   the news conference, incorrectly citing the number of days until the   
   election, which is 35. “I’ve worked for 17 or 18 days when you say in a   
   row, and I’m working even when I’m not working.”   
   Trump was more energetic during a speech to supporters in Waunakee, Wis.,   
   earlier Tuesday. He went on an extended riff about the 1987 film “Full   
   Metal Jacket” and made up a false claim that Harris raised taxes as the San   
   Francisco district attorney, which is not a power of that office.   
   Trump avoided direct questions about how he would address the escalating   
   violence between Iran and Israel, by repeatedly insisting it never would   
   have happened if he were president. He claimed he could settle that war, as   
   well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a single phone call apiece, but   
   he declined to specify how.   
   “I don’t want to say what I’d use because I don’t want to give up   
   negotiating abilities,” he said. He even boasted that with a second term he   
   could have struck a peace deal between Iran and Israel.   
   He did not mention Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate or his running mate,   
   Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), at either event until an hour and 20 minutes into   
   the news conference when he was directly asked what advice he had given   
   Vance.   
   “Have fun,” Trump answered.   
   Trump's debate advice for Vance: 'Have fun'   
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   Former president Donald Trump said his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-   
   Ohio), should "have fun" at the Oct. 1 vice-presidential debate in New   
   York. (Video: The Washington Post)   
   Much of what Trump said here he has said before. He repeated false claims   
   about a U.S. government app directing cartels where to drop off smuggled   
   migrants; in fact, the app lets migrants request appointments for legal   
   processing. He falsely accused the Biden administration of admitting 13,000   
   convicted murderers — a number that in fact reflects several decades of   
   migration and includes people in federal or state custody.   
   He also repeatedly praised predominantly White countries such as Denmark,   
   Norway and Sweden while emphatically warning against immigrants from Congo   
   in Africa. And he again said migrants crossing the U.S. southern border   
   were taking “Black and Hispanic jobs,” a characterization that many   
   Americans have found offensive and economists said was false.   
   “They come from, from the Congo in Africa,” Trump said at the event at   
   Discovery World, a science and technology museum a couple of miles from   
   where the Republican National Convention was held in July. “Many people   
   from the Congo. I don’t know what that is.”   
   Trump elaborated on his proposal to eliminate the Department of Education   
   by describing what he envisioned the agency would look like: “I think you   
   will have like one person plus a secretary. You’ll have a secretary. The   
   secretary will have one person plus a secretary. And all the person has to   
   do is: Are you teaching English? Are you teaching arithmetic? What are you   
   doing? Reading, writing and arithmetic. And are you not teaching woke? Not   
   teaching woke is a very big factor. But we’ll have a very small staff.”   
   Several times Trump mixed up his words or spoke in vague terms. He praised   
   Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a “tough guy” when he appeared to   
   mean “strongman.” He complained that an interviewer with “60 Minutes”   
   “challenged me on the computer” — meaning the interviewer argued with him   
   in 2020 about the provenance of Hunter Biden’s laptop. He referred to   
   Afghan attacks on coalition forces, known in NATO as “green on blue,” as   
   “blue on brown and brown on blue.”   
   Asked whether as president he should have retaliated more forcefully   
   against Iran’s missile strikes on U.S. forces in Iraq in 2020, Trump   
   responded as he did at the time, by denying the severity of the more than   
   100 injuries, including traumatic brain injury. “They had a headache,” he   
   said.   
   Other comments were harder to parse.   
   “Kamala and the radical left Democratic Party want to keep Black and   
   Hispanic children trapped in family government,” he said.   
   “Every single thing that we’re doing is based on structure and common   
   sense. I was looking at the various states, and I think 35 states could be   
   the equivalent of Norway and Denmark.”   
   Overall, Trump’s speech was a far cry from the preview from former   
   Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson (R), who introduced him at the lectern.   
   “It’s going to be a great day because Donald Trump is going to talk to you   
      
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