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3:53Now PlayingAt multiple rallies this past week, Donald Trump had to resort to using sound effects to describe how a missile defense system would work because he's becoming increasingly incapable of stringing sentences together that contain actual words. Trump was describing the "dome" that he wants to build around the United States, but instead of talking to the audience as if they were mature, he mimed the actions and made sound effects of missiles being launched and blowing up in the air. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.
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At a rally in New Hampshire this week. In fact, it was probably Donald Trump's last rally in New Hampshire. Now that he can move on to other places, um, he kinda went a little off the rails and he went off the rails by talking about the dome he wants to create over the United States. Now, about a week and a half ago, and you know, before the rally on Monday, Donald Trump talked about how he, much like Israel, he wanted to build a dome. He says, it's gonna be a great dome and we're gonna build it using materials supplied here in the United States. And at the time, it was pretty obvious that he really thought that Israel's Iron Dome was in fact like a real actual dome, like in the Simpsons movie. So he's speaking about it like, Hey, I'm gonna build an actual dome over the United States, gonna keep us totally safe and it's gonna be American made.
Well, on Monday after, of course, getting a lot of heat for not understanding that the dome was actually just kind of a metaphor for the missile defense system. Donald Trump, now knowing this information described to a crowd how the missile defense works, but he didn't wanna bog them down with the technical aspects of it and how the radars and you know all that. No, no, no, no, no. Donald Trump decided to describe it as if he were four years old talking to a group of people who were in fact, three years old. And here's how that played out. Take a look.
Go. These are not muscle guys here. They're muscle guys up here, right? And they calmly walk to a seat dinging, ding, ding, dinging, ding, ding. They've only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out, right? Boom. Okay, miss a launch, pinging plum to most un and
Ding, ding, ding.
That is, uh, that, that's, I mean, I, I guess technically he's not wrong, but here's a couple things I gotta point out about this. First of all, Donald Trump has made so many mental mistakes recently that of course, everybody's calling into question is cognitive health. So maybe he just decided, you know what? They're calling me out every time I say words. 'cause my words are bad. So I'm not even gonna use words. I'm just gonna do crash. Boom bang, cash. Pow, right? They, they can't get me if I'm not saying words, I'm just making sound effects now. Um, not, not, not exactly smart move. Secondly, maybe Donald Trump didn't have the understanding of the missile defense system, how it actually works. So we has to resort to using the child as sound effects. Or maybe, and this is probably the most likely, maybe Donald Trump actually understands who he's talking to, and he knows that the people out there in that crowd, they don't understand how these things work.
They don't understand the basics about, you know, radar function and, you know, response time and things like that. No, no, no. These are simpletons Trump thinks so I better explain it in words. They understand, like, boom, bang, pow blah. So it's either, you are so childish that this is how you describe things, or you're so worried about making a gaff that you're just not even using real words anymore. Or again, most likely you think your audience is so stupid that they can't understand words. I don't know which one of those is worse, to be honest with you, but I know that it's probably one of those three things. And I gotta tell you, I'm gonna favor a president that can use actual words over a giant toddler in an oversized suit any day of the week.
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