LEMON DROP | Donald Trump's Wild, Unhinged Speech to GOP Crowd
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What happened at Donald Trump's Kennedy Center appearance and why did the hosts call it 'unhinged'?
So Donald Trump went to this Republican retreat in Washington, D.C. today, actually left the White House to go someplace other than Mar-a-Lago or one of his golf courses. And so he went to he took the long trek to the Kennedy Center in Washington to discuss. I don't know. Maybe this was a pep rally, a motivational speech or whatever. But. My team is here, and they're joining. Is he... Now, I'm hearing he's obsessed still with cognitive tests. Is that what this first clip is about? Indeed, yes.
Yeah, he... Yeah.
All right, so this is supposed to be about serious business motivation, but it's all about Trump. Watch.
We should give everybody, like... These competency tests, right? The cognitive, they call it cognitive. You know, I'm the only president that went for cognitive. I think every president and vice president should be forced to take cognitive exams, mental tests.
Okay, so this is not a good thing, right? Like, isn't he being forced to take a cognitive test because they think he's not competent?
Yeah, he's being forced to take tests to prove that he doesn't have dementia.
Also, I love, Don, do you remember how he's now forgotten the number of times that he's bragged about passing the cognitive test? On two separate occasions over the course of a couple weeks, he bragged about passing the third test. What is going on? He's very proud of it. Andy, did you want to say something?
Why does Trump keep bragging about taking 'cognitive' tests and what do hosts think that reveals?
He thinks it's an honor. He's the only one deserving.
A cognitive test? Oh, my God, he's out of his mind. But maybe this is an indication that he needs to take the cognitive test. And they keep giving it to him because they're like, well, maybe next time he'll pass it. I don't know. We just have to keep telling him. I don't know what's going on. But I think this is an indication that he actually needs a cognitive test. Keep going. It's like...
Are they intelligent? Wouldn't it be nice? Do you think Waltz could pass a cognitive test as an example? Do you think Kamala could? I don't think Gavin could. He's got a good line of crap, but other than that, he couldn't pass. I mean, here's a guy who didn't want to have water coming down from the Pacific Northwest. Why? You know, they have a little tiny fish, just a little tiny fish. Not doing well, you know why? No water. They're sending water. It's too much. It's killing the fish. So they cut it off, and then they have 25,000 houses burned down. They don't know why. No, I think I believe in it. I'm the only one that took a cognitive test. I do. It's the worst.
He's so proud.
I'm the only one whose mental decline was so apparent that I needed to take a cognitive test.
Yeah. But did any of it make sense? Like it doesn't make sense. Like the sentence structure, the grammar, like his train of thought, like none of it makes sense.
I love how he just refers to it as cognitive. Like, he doesn't even say cognitive test. He just refers to it as cognitive. And then also, as he loves to talk about, and we have a clip of this later, the weave is ridiculous. To go from cognitive test to Tim Walls to Gavin Newsom to- Tiny little fish. Little fish.
Yeah.
But seriously, here's I think that how Trump gets out of it. He just labels it something like he labels his incoherence and his rambling. Oh, it's a weave. You know what I mean? I do a weave. And it's just because, well, maybe it's just that your mind is shot. Maybe that's what it is. But he just names it something. And the Republicans fall in line. So they seem to be enraptured by what he's saying. OK, since you mentioned it, let's go to the weave.
So let me just finish up because, you know, I weave, I love to weave. If you ever weave and don't come back to the point, then that's a problem. Then you say, but when you weave and you go here and boom, boom, boom, always coming back, then you're in good shape.
Okay. So yeah, that's what he's just, am I wrong? He's just named it something. Doesn't mean it makes sense.
You'd think the things he's weaving in would have something to do with the point he's making. But he's just saying as long as you get back to that point, whatever you say is fair game.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened at Donald Trump's Kennedy Center appearance and why did the hosts call it 'unhinged'?
0:00–1:35
2
Why does Trump keep bragging about taking 'cognitive' tests and what do hosts think that reveals?
1:35–10:10
3
How did Trump pivot from cognitive tests to random targets like Gavin Newsom and 'tiny fish'?
10:10–14:25
4
What confused math about drug-price reductions did Trump claim and why do hosts mock it?
14:25–21:00
Speakers
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