Donald Trump boasts of a “very fertile brain” as he defends his elaborate speeches

Donald Trump said he has a “very fertile brain” as he defended his rambling speeches at a rally in Wisconsin on Friday.

The former president’s public speeches seemingly more disjointed and unfocused something in recent months The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman raised CNN‘S The Source show last month.

In Milwaukee on Friday evening, the former president, responding to comments that his speeches were boisterous, said: “I have a very fertile, a very fertile brain, but it’s the tissue and we do it, this way you tell one story and you cover about 15 subplots, but you get to the final answer.”

Earlier in his speech, Trump had explained what he meant by “the weave,” which he described as a way of speaking that was part of telling a story.

The former president said, “They always said, he walked, I don’t walk. I do a weave, you know what a weave is? It’s a story.”

The Republican The nominee gestured with his hand to mimic a weaving motion with his hand as he spoke.

“As you tell the story you realize there’s a little bit off, but the key is you have to come back, then you tell the story and you get to the heart of it and boom you do another weave, and sometimes you do a fabric of a fabric,” Trump added.

The clip was posted by the Harris campaign account on Xearlier Tweetlater that evening, and has since been viewed more than 320,000 times.

Trump: This is the weave, you know, a little weave, right? You know, they always said, these are stupid people, they always said he was just talking, I wasn’t. I’m doing a weave. You know what a fabric is, it’s a story, and as you tell the story you realize that there’s a bit of… pic.twitter.com/OmTI8ReU11

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There has been ongoing debate in recent months about Trump’s answers to questions and rambling speeches.

mid-October, Bloomberg Editor-in-chief John Micklethwait interrupted Trump during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago, to remind him that the question he asked was about tariffs, not wars, which is what Trump was talking about.

Answering a question other than the one asked was something Trump did a number of times in one interview, at one point talking about a question Ministry of Justice voter roll lawsuit in Virginia when asked about the breakup Alphabet, Googling‘s parent company.

The former president’s estranged niece Mary also deemed Trump’s responses at the New York Economic Club in September as “incoherent riffs,” when the Republican candidate suggested that tariffs would reduce child care costs.

Responding to his comment, Mary said: “I challenge anyone who actually tried to follow the thread of that gibberish to tell me what it means. No one can do that.’

Newsweek contacted the Trump campaign via email after business hours for comment.

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