"Mostly Stayed On Topic"

Newsmax host says Trump’s campaign has gotten “boring,” & says he can turn things around by ditching his red tie & suit in a Charm Offensive, start talking more about his Christian faith, his love of music, his golf game, & how much he loves his grandkids. https://t.co/TIAuxPXsMX

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 19, 2024

Well, he didn't do that today.

Trump: And we were doing that and starting to do very well and then we had to stop for an unknown reason. pic.twitter.com/C43DOq09ud

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Trump's "economic speech" 3.0 Follow closely for the policy pronouncements and explanations!

Trump: Everybody was better off when you had a gentleman named President Donald Trump at the helm. Does anybody know him? Whoever he may be pic.twitter.com/oBuNMwSPim

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

"Oh, that was many years ago/I doubt that anyone would know."

Trump: If you steal $950 are less, they will leave you alone. We see criminals going into stores with little computer adding it up. They don’t get prosecuted above that. The only one who gets prosecuted is somebody.. talk about the unfair election pic.twitter.com/TtyoV0lsiy

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

That's just Econ 101.

Trump: And by the way I had my own classified documents case and I was totally exonerated. Totally. pic.twitter.com/L4erKIfJZE

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Boy, is he gonna be surprised.

Trump: I would have made billions of dollars at this job if I wanted to play that game.. instead I took the job very seriously and very importantly pic.twitter.com/WkZeRvsBvD

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Umm...

1) Journos claimed they needed interviews w/VP to learn policy
2) Any oppty they've had to Q her were mostly abysmal horse race questions
3) Journos still have never asked Trump really basic Qs, such as, "what are terms of your ongoing business deal w/Saudi Arabia?"

— emptywheel (mouthy bitch) (@emptywheel) August 19, 2024

Gonna repeat again:

We don't know and no journalist has bothered to public ask:

1) What business relationship bt Trump and Saudis is
2) If he'll appoint his failspawn to WH positions again
3) Where the still-missing classified docs are

— emptywheel (mouthy bitch) (@emptywheel) August 19, 2024

Fox cuts coverage on Trump’s speech pic.twitter.com/XEhr20JOkp

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

But he's just getting to the "economics" part!

Fox News cuts away from Trump's very boring speech, and then Karl Rove immediately shits on Trump's "ad hoc" message pic.twitter.com/YrFtN9snud

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 19, 2024

I'm almost starting to like Turdblossom.

Trump struggles while trying to say regulatory pic.twitter.com/CoN5RU6649

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Not a concept he understands.

Trump: 2019, we were doing so well… 2018, 2017 pic.twitter.com/ED8FjFIHrq

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

"Time considered as a helix of semi-precious stones." Or as a river, that flows both ways. Or just as a broken chronology that wanders through the by-ways of Trump's mind.

Trump: Just like they were going to pay the bills of college students. That didn’t happen. Won’t happen. They gave up that. The Supreme Court gave it up because it was unfair to all of those people pic.twitter.com/ZUtlhwWnMF

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Is anybody going to write an editorial in WaPo pointing out Trump can't explain what the hell he's talking about?

Trump: If you’d like to go from here to let’s say Washington to look after we fix it up, make it safe again which will take approximately like quickly pic.twitter.com/fEShzqB7Tq

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

THIS close to English.

People don’t seem that too enthusiastic about Trump pushing 10% tariffs on foreign products pic.twitter.com/GdYST24bPo

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

No idea why. 19th century mercantilism sounds like the cutting edge of...200 years ago.

Trump: He said we are weird. That JD and I are weird. I think we are extremely normal people. He is weird. pic.twitter.com/Zd8HBxHUwg

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Economics! And if you blinked, you missed this:

LOL. The woman behind Trump checked her watch as Trump droned on about not being weird. pic.twitter.com/LXKOxn2NTq

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 19, 2024

Trump: I wonder if they knew that when they did overthrow or a coup on… … Joe Biden, pic.twitter.com/6cr5IWl5Rj

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

That was a cover story on Forbes, wasn't it? Or Fortune? Surely it had something to do with economic policy.

Trump: If you go back 70 years, our greatest country, greatest company by far was the United States steel pic.twitter.com/vTNBZ6tGXR

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

1954? Before globalization? Yeah, okay. Whatever.

Trump: Our supply chain has crashed. You don’t write about it now but it’s still crashed. All you have to say where is the package that was supposed to be here three months ago? pic.twitter.com/Sqek5mxgXU

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

Somebody needs to tell Amazon they aren't delivering packages on time. And toilet paper is not getting to my local store anymore. Oh, wait, that was during Covid. When...who was in office again? Anybody remember that guy?

Trump: We are going to bring back electronic production. We are going to bring up electronics too. We buy everything away pic.twitter.com/XPBPX6Tg2h

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 19, 2024

"The Consumers Buy It Away." The unfinished novel by Flannery O'Connor.

lol Trump peaces out while the people who stood behind him uncomfortably for an hour continue to stand there pic.twitter.com/NxwOUbetOG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 19, 2024

Anyone who says that the “weird” thing was a bad idea doesn’t understand Trump. The 90s are on the phone for you looking for campaign advice, because nobody else is. Here he is in front of a group supposed to be talking about the economy but he’s rambling about this to them. https://t.co/nO2rj0rPvl

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 19, 2024

Where the hell was he, anyway?

Karl Rove over on Fox called out Trump’s speech for what it was — unfocused and rambling. I have to wonder if @Phil_Mattingly even watched it. This is a new level of sane-washing Trump. https://t.co/A6USIx70ZM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 19, 2024

Lordelpus when even FoxNews is more honest about Trump than CNN. "Mostly stayed on topic"?  What, are we grading on a curve, now?  Does Trump get an "E" for effort?  Maybe a gold star for talking for a whole hour?