DonOLD Trump rally rants are incoherent, unhinged and driven by grievence

Donald Trump’s cult rally speeches have always been a dizzying mix of fearmongering, conspiracy theories, threats against his enemies, and laments about how America is a “nation in decline.” 

Trump made Joe Biden’s decrepitude the centerpiece of his 2024 campaign, so you’d think he would focus on appearing competent and presidential at his MAGA gatherings — especially now that he’s running against Kamala Harris, who’s nearly two decades his junior. Yet Trump’s rallies are now weirder than ever.

An essay published in New York Magazine the Intelligencer
by By Margaret Hartmann

It’s not just that the substance of Trump’s remarks has grown more disturbing, though it certainly has (for example, he regularly celebrates the January 6th rioters and uses Nazi rhetoric to describe migrants). These days his speeches are also littered with pointless and astoundingly strange musings, like his anti-shark diatribes and tributes to a fictional serial killer.

Trump insists he isn’t incoherent; he’s just misunderstood. 

(Trump is "gaslighting" the media because he just tells endless lies and eventually expects that people will eventually accept his lies.)

Trumpzi repeatedly insiss that he’s not rambling, he’s ust using a “genius” 😝😠rhetorical device he calls “the weave.” 

Trump simulates oral sex on his microphone. At a November  rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trump fumed for several minutes about some issue with his microphone. 

Initially this rant didn’t seem that bad. Trump was angrier and cursed more than usual, but his point was clear. “I get so angry,” he said. “I’m up here seething. I’m seething! I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic.”