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Trump struggles to say ‘evangelical’ and muddles up Israel in incoherent speech (www.independent.co.uk)

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Republican candidate arrived late to Nashville speech looking flushed and exhausted to rant about Democrats, the Department of Education, the Capitol riot and the ‘silencing’ of religious groups

Donald Trump appeared on stage more than 90 minutes late in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday night, where he delivered a speech that was as wild as it was incoherent.

The Republican presidential front-runner appeared flushed and visibly exhausted as he arrived to address the National Religious Broadcasters’ (NRB) International Christian Media Convention, tripping over simple words like “evangelical” during an address littered with verbal miscues and false claims.

At various points, Mr Trump declared that he had made “Israel” the capital of Israel during his presidency (presumably confusing the decision to move its US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem), said that he planned to close down the Department of Education and praised the Capitol rioters, whom he again characterised as political prisoners and referred to as “the J6 hostages”, for their “tremendous spirit”.

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[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 53 points 4 months ago

I am so fucking tied of all of these headlines from both sides that take 22 seconds of a 90 minute speech/ramble and turns it into something. How about we talk about the fucking vile shit that comes out of Trump's mouth and the reasonable things coming out of Biden's? It's such low effort garbage clickbait.

"Trump muddles through speech" because he's fucking exhausted and old as shit.
"Biden gives deluded speech" because he mispronounced something in a way that could drastically change the meaning.
"Trump forgets the capital of a country"
"Biden forgets which country he's talking about"

It's so fucking tired and boring. Why can't we talk about the content of what they are actually saying rather than their mistakes? That's what is important. None of this gotcha stuff is going to change minds. It is just going to make people more entrenched jn their positions because they see their candidate being attacked and smeared for obvious mistakes.

Attack the policies. Attack the intent. Attack the motives. Don't attack the stupid mistakes. It just divides the country further.

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