Opinion | What if I'm the 'Friend' Donald Trump Referred to?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Last week Trump himself gave it a name, one that sounds kind of like a '70s dance: "the weave.
66% : But especially with intonation, pacing and context, Trump manages to convey meaning thoroughly in this passage.
52% : Trump is satisfied to cast important addresses as unplanned verbal kaleidoscopy.
49% : "You take a look at bacon and some of these products," Trump said at a recent town hall in Wisconsin.
43% : "If I'm sitting down and that boat is going down and I'm on top of a battery and the water starts flooding in," Trump said, "I'm getting concerned, but then I look 10 yards to my left and there's a shark over there, so I have a choice of electrocution and a shark, you know what I'm going to take?
39% : No friend of his am I (nor an English professor exactly -- my field is Linguistics), but I wrote in 2018, in response to speculation even then that Trump was suffering some kind of dementia, that in listening to him we must realize that informal, occasionally jumbled speech is not automatically incoherent.
38% : But Trump, stringing together insights with no outwardly discernible connection, just chews his own fat.

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