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Motley13

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5. try to decipher these
Tue May 23, 2017, 11:48 AM
May 2017



Donald Trump said a lot during Monday night's presidential debate — whether people understand what he said is a very different matter.

Throughout the course night, the candidate was accused of making a "word salad." All across Twitter, viewers accused Trump of "rambling," speaking in circles and even making up words.

SEE ALSO: Trump's debate sniffles are louder than his words

Below is a small, diverse sample of Trump's word salads.

Use your best detective skills, and see if you can understand what Trump was trying to say:
On our trade deals:

"When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they sell in — automatic, 16 percent, approximately. When they sell into us, there's no tax."
On Hillary Clinton's website:

"And look at her website. You know what? It's no difference than this. She's telling us how to fight ISIS."


On losing jobs to other countries:

"[They're] leaving because taxes are too high and because some of them have lots of money outside of our country. And instead of bringing it back and putting the money to work, because they can't work out a deal to — and everybody agrees it should be brought back."
On the Fed:

"And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political — by keeping the interest rates at this level. And believe me: The day Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of his life to play golf, when they raise interest rates, you're going to see some very bad things happen, because the Fed is not doing their job."
On releasing his taxes:

"Almost every lawyer says, you don't release your returns until the audit's complete. When the audit's complete, I'll do it. But I would go against them if she releases her emails.

HOLT: So it's negotiable?

TRUMP: It's not negotiable, no.
On reports that his business struggled:

"The report that said $650 — which, by the way, a lot of friends of mine that know my business say, boy, that's really not a lot of money. It's not a lot of money relative to what I had. The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was — actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be honest with you, but the buildings are worth $3.9 billion. And the $650 isn't even on that."
On stop and frisk:

HOLT: Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.

TRUMP: No, you're wrong. It went before a judge, who was a very against-police judge.
On his company:

I am very under-leveraged. I have a great company. I have a tremendous income. And the reason I say that is not in a braggadocios way. It's because it's about time that this country had somebody running it that has an idea about money.

Sometimes Twitter says it best:

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What is Batshit Crazy Alex? LOL Lib May 2017 #1
He definitely, IMO, shows signs of dementia. n/t RKP5637 May 2017 #2
Good doctoral thesis: Why do repuglican presidents tend to get senile earlier? erronis May 2017 #15
It would be interesting to see if there were any correlation whatsoever relative to the amygdala. nt RKP5637 May 2017 #16
This study only used Trumps unscripted comments-over the years-based on science of the brain... riversedge May 2017 #3
I think Trump has nasal polyps which effects his speech. LeftInTX May 2017 #20
Dementia. procon May 2017 #4
EXACTLY Runningdawg May 2017 #18
try to decipher these Motley13 May 2017 #5
Amazing list of twits from the twit-in-chief! erronis May 2017 #14
My mom was taking too many "supplements" librechik May 2017 #6
just to keep your head spinning Motley13 May 2017 #7
If you watch Dubya's earlier, pre-Whitehouse interviews.. Orrex May 2017 #8
W is basically inarticulate dalton99a May 2017 #19
W's speech was pretty bad when he was first elected governor LeftInTX May 2017 #21
re: Trump Orrex May 2017 #22
His fans like his speaking style LeftInTX May 2017 #23
Because he's an idiot speaking to idiots Orrex May 2017 #24
clearly dementia, imho. mopinko May 2017 #9
well he's definitely overdosed on foxnews. that shit's a real killer. unblock May 2017 #10
He thinks he can say what he wants - because it's good to be the king... JoeStuckInOH May 2017 #11
I agree--advancing dementia DFW May 2017 #12
Burnout. lpbk2713 May 2017 #13
I'm sure there's an element of that in there plus he has no idea WTF he's doing. n/t RKP5637 May 2017 #17
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