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   As elections near, Trump’s incoherence seems to be getting worse   
      
   Trump’s public appearances tend to follow a pattern. The former president   
   will have a message he intends to deliver, and he’ll have a teleprompter   
   to guide his rhetorical path, but the Republican will invariably ramble,   
   sharing weird and random thoughts about all sorts of things.   
      
   hear the GOP candidate tell it, his stream-of-consciousness nonsense only   
   appears to be incoherent.   
      
   “You know, I do the weave,” Trump boasted last week. “You know what the   
   weave is? I’ll talk about like nine different things, and they all come   
   back brilliantly together, and it’s like, friends of mine that are, like,   
   English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever   
   seen.’”   
      
   For one thing, the idea that the former president hangs out with “like,   
   English professors” is hilarious. For another, there’s no hidden genius   
   in Trump’s rambling. He seems to enjoy sharing bizarre ideas, theories,   
   and the details of conversations that occurred only in his mind. There’s   
   nothing “brilliant” about it.   
      
   Elaine Godfrey wrote for The Atlantic this week about one of the GOP   
   candidate’s latest gems.   
      
       During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week,   
   Donald Trump said something that made even me — a seasoned visitor to   
   Trump’s theme park of hyperbole — look around in confusion at the people   
   around me in the audience. Said Trump: “The transgender thing is   
   incredible. Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few   
   days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen   
   with your child.”   
      
   Not to put too fine a point on this, but Trump’s claim was plainly   
   delusional. The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries.   
      
   But while the rhetoric was certainly ridiculous, it wasn’t altogether   
   surprising.   
      
   Trump’s bizarre comments about “the transgender thing” came on the heels   
   of the former president blaming wind power with people eating less bacon.   
      
   You take a look at bacon and some of these products,” he told a Wisconsin   
   audience last week. “Some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And we are   
   going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know,   
   this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over   
   the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem.”   
      
   As my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones responded, “I don’t know how you can   
   even fact-check a tangent like that.”   
      
   This rhetoric followed Trump speaking — more than once — about his fear   
   of sharks, which apparently had something to do with electric boat   
   batteries. It led author Steven King to note, “This is like listening to   
   your senile uncle at the dinner table after he has that third drink.”   
      
   The larger question is whether Trump is actually getting worse.   
      
   My MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem presented a persuasive answer this week:   
   “Trump has been embedded in the public consciousness as a rule-breaker   
   for so long that it can be easily to forget how far he is from fulfilling   
   the basic requirement of a politician to speak clearly. Trump’s speeches   
   seem to be growing more discursive and difficult to comprehend by the   
   day.”   
      
      
   The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie made a related case, arguing that the   
   Republican presidential hopeful is unable “not just to speak truthfully   
   about a topic, but speak coherently about any topic. ... Trump hasn’t   
   just deteriorated, he’s clearly cognitively impaired, and it is bizarre   
   to me that this isn’t just a major story.”   
      
   For much of the year, there was a spirited public conversation, fueled by   
   intense media interest, about whether President Joe Biden was too old and   
   addled to do the job. Perhaps it’s time to renew that conversation,   
   turning attention to the incumbent’s immediate predecessor and would-be   
   successor?   
      
   As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes summarized last week, “It is a little weird that   
   ‘age concerns’ have disappeared as a constant focus of campaign reporting   
   and discussion even though the GOP nominee would be the oldest man ever   
   sworn in to the office and is very obviously sharply declining before our   
   eyes.”   
      
      
      
      
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-elections-near-trump-s-   
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