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BSdetect

(8,995 posts)
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 11:31 AM Apr 2017

An imbecile speaks - from Google News report

This is pure incoherent babbling gibberish:

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-claimed-he-didnt-watch-cnn-minutes-after-saying-he-did-2017-4

Here's the part of the transcript where Trump talked about CNN:
AP: Do you feel that one of the things with cable is there's such real-time reaction with everything you say?

TRUMP: Yeah.

AP: Can you separate that sometimes from that actual decision?

TRUMP: The one thing —

AP: That you have to do —

TRUMP: OK. The one thing I've learned to do that I never thought I had the ability to do. I don't watch CNN anymore.

AP: You just said you did.

TRUMP: No. No, I, if I'm passing it, what did I just say (inaudible)?

AP: You just said —

TRUMP: Where? Where?

AP: Two minutes ago.

TRUMP: No, they treat me so badly. No, I just said that. No, I, what'd I say, I stopped watching them. But I don't watch CNN anymore. I don't watch MSNBC. I don't watch it. Now I heard yesterday that MSNBC, you know, they tell me what's going on.

AP: Right.

TRUMP: In fact, they also did. I never thought I had the ability to not watch. Like, people think I watch (MSNBC's) "Morning Joe." I don't watch "Morning Joe." I never thought I had the ability to, and who used to treat me great by the way, when I played the game. I never thought I had the ability to not watch what is unpleasant, if it's about me. Or pleasant. But when I see it's such false reporting and such bad reporting and false reporting that I've developed an ability that I never thought I had. I don't watch things that are unpleasant. I just don't watch them.

AP: And do you feel like that's, that's because of the office that you now occupy —

TRUMP: No.

AP: That you've made that change?

TRUMP: I don't know why it is, but I've developed that ability, and it's happened over the last, over the last year.

AP: That's interesting.

TRUMP: And I don't watch things that I know are going to be unpleasant. CNN has covered me unfairly and incorrectly and I don't watch them anymore. A lot of people don't watch them anymore, they're now in third place. But I've created something where people are watching ... but I don't watch CNN anymore. I don't watch MSNBC anymore. I don't watch things, and I never thought I had that ability. I always thought I'd watch.

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An imbecile speaks - from Google News report (Original Post) BSdetect Apr 2017 OP
Word salad shenmue Apr 2017 #1
You notice how he says the exact same thing/idea in different ways? dixiegrrrrl Apr 2017 #6
this is how he sees the world maxsolomon Apr 2017 #2
Yikes... 2naSalit Apr 2017 #3
I never thought I had the ability to not watch. underpants Apr 2017 #4
Trumpty Dumpty is cracked. Cracklin Charlie Apr 2017 #5
Wow...how the hell can this idiot continue? Satch59 Apr 2017 #7
I almost feel sorry for the old timer. BigRig Apr 2017 #8
"I went to an Ivy League school. I'm very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words... dalton99a Apr 2017 #9
Imbecile-in-Chief FSogol Apr 2017 #10
Samuel Beckett's "What is the word?", Tanuki Apr 2017 #11
Oaf of Office ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #12
"And I don't watch things that I know are going to be unpleasant." duncang Apr 2017 #13
Was Any Thought Ever Completed There? ProfessorGAC Apr 2017 #14
he "never thought he had the ability" to..... turn off the television? Warren DeMontague Apr 2017 #15

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
6. You notice how he says the exact same thing/idea in different ways?
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 12:06 PM
Apr 2017

Keeps repeating himself?
Someone pointed out on another thread that is called "looping" and often occurs with certain forms of dementia.

maxsolomon

(33,244 posts)
2. this is how he sees the world
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 11:37 AM
Apr 2017

in terms of ratings.

does he want a prize for controlling his TV habits?

he's a fucking clown.

Satch59

(1,353 posts)
7. Wow...how the hell can this idiot continue?
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 12:08 PM
Apr 2017

I hope there are tapes of this because it will sound even worse and let's have this play on and on on the MSM...

BigRig

(74 posts)
8. I almost feel sorry for the old timer.
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 01:33 PM
Apr 2017

This is exactly the same type of rambling my grandpa was doing right before he died from alzheimers. The people who voted for him should be ashamed of themselves. Surely they saw the signs like so many others.

dalton99a

(81,398 posts)
9. "I went to an Ivy League school. I'm very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words...
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 01:39 PM
Apr 2017

but there is no better word than stupid. Right?"

Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
11. Samuel Beckett's "What is the word?",
Mon Apr 24, 2017, 02:04 PM
Apr 2017

written for his friend Joe Chaikin, who had become aphasic following a stroke:

http://www.extrageographic.org/samuel-becketts-last-poem

folly –
folly for to –
for to –
what is the word –
folly from this –
all this –
folly from all this –
given –
folly given all this –
seeing –
folly seeing all this –
this –
what is the word –
this this –
this this here –
all this this here –
folly given all this –
seeing –
folly seeing all this this here –
for to –
what is the word –
see –
glimpse –
seem to glimpse –
need to seem to glimpse –
folly for to need to seem to glimpse –
what –
what is the word –
and where –
folly for to need to seem to glimpse what where –
where –
what is the word –
there –
over there –
away over there –
afar –
afar away over there –
afaint –
afaint afar away over there what –
what –
what is the word –
seeing all this –
all this this –
all this this here –
folly for to see what –
glimpse –
seem to glimpse –
need to seem to glimpse –
afaint afar away over there what –
folly for to need to seem to glimpse afaint afar away over there what –
what –
what is the word –

what is the word

duncang

(1,907 posts)
13. "And I don't watch things that I know are going to be unpleasant."
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 07:27 AM
Apr 2017

That in it's self is telling. He doesn't even want to hear anything other then his praise.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
15. he "never thought he had the ability" to..... turn off the television?
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 07:52 AM
Apr 2017

But this is the guy who says he alone has the mad skillz to bring manufacturing jobs back, fix the economy, and get universal health coverage for way cheaper than it is now.

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