This little gem was reported widely on all the news networks last night. In the video (in the links) you can see Trump dismissively waving his hand after he throws the pieces of paper away. Worse, you can hear the craven sycophants in the audience laughing and cheering him on as if this is some comedy performance.
“This was going to be my remarks. It would’ve taken about two minutes, but . . . ” Trump paused, then threw the piece of paper into the air. “That would’ve been a little boring, a little boring. Now I’m reading off the first paragraph, I said this is boring. Come on. We have to say, tell it like it is.”
Rather than zeroing in on a focused message about the tax cuts that congressional Republicans believe is the key to retaining their majorities this fall, Trump launched into a rambling diatribe of red-meat rhetoric that had nothing to do with the tax law.
Trump — who has been fixated on a “caravan” of migrants traveling north from Central America — charged that women on the journey are “raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before,” despite no evidence in mainstream news reports backing up that claim. He complained about birthright citizenship, sarcastically noting: “If you have a baby on our land, congratulations. That baby is a United States citizen.”
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This is clearly a coping and defense mechanism of someone who never learned to read and has learned these strategies as a way to get out of the difficult situation. And has been able to get away with it because of his position. The only identity Trump has ever achieved is as a reality TV star and he is still operating from that “safe space”. And then he is encouraged and rewarded by his “audience “.
Further, he retreats to his “safe place” and talks about the only topic he is comfortable and well versed in: hateful rhetoric about immigrants and conspiracy theories about voting.
There is some comfort in the tone news agencies are reporting such incidents with now. His unsubstantiated remarks are always prefaced as such
Maybe his aides can get the talking points about the tax cuts to Fox and Friends so he will talk about them.