Trump Argues That Critics Mistake His ‘Very Complex’ Sentences With Rambling: ‘It’s Genius’

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday explained how instances of him seemingly rambling are actually him putting together “very complex” sentences.

In recent weeks, Trump has been criticized for going on largely unintelligible tangents during speaking engagements. At an event earlier this month at the Economic Club of New York, he famously provided two minutes of word salad when asked how he’d make childcare more affordable.

Trump has argued that he actually makes perfect sense during those moments. At his town hall in Flint, Michigan, — where he was joined by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders — he described how his “complex” sentences always come together in the end.

So, I give these long, sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs, but they all come together. I do it a lot. I do it with “ Raisin’ Cane ,” that story. I do it with the story on the catapults on the aircraft carriers. I do it with a lot of different stories. When I mentioned Doctor Hannibal Lecter, I’m using that as an example of people that are coming in from Silence of the Lambs. I use it. They say, “It’s terrible.” So they say — so I’ll give this long complex area — for instance, that I talked about a lot of different territory. The bottom line is I said the most important thing. We’re going to bring more plants into your state and this country to make automobiles. We’re gonna be bigger than before; but the fake news — and there’s a lot of them back there, you know, for a town hall. There’s a lot of people — but the fake news likes to say, “Oh, he was rambling.” No, no, that’s not rambling. That’s genius when you can connect the dots. Now, Sarah, if you couldn’t connect the dots, you got a problem, but every dot was connected and many stories were told in that little paragraph. But there is something — But they say that — that the other thing I say is this: we had 107,000 people show up in New Jersey. We had 68,000 people show up in Alabama. We had 79 or 81,000 in South Carolina; and they’ve never said I’m a great speaker. And I said, “Am I a great speaker?” They say, “Oh no, he rambles.” What the hell are all you people showing up for if I ramble? You don’t want to show up for a rambler!

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