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Miles Archer

(21,801 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 05:54 PM Tuesday

CNN cuts away from Trump reminiscing over "making a sign in the basement with a magic marker, sloppy as hell."

CNN's Wolf Blitzer cuts Trump as speech rambles out of control: 'He's all over the place'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-maduro-republicans/

"You know, they're paid when they have brand new, beautiful printed signs by like the highest quality printer, and you have a woman [sighing] 'Free Maduro,' and the sign is before we even did the attack, you know, 'free Maduro,'" Trump said, mocking a protester he saw on television.

"Why do you want him freed? 'I don't know, but he should be free.' Oh, she reads a sign. What does that say? It says free. Well, that's what I believe, and, you know, you see the sign? It's like, Lisa, we should all have quality signage like that. The one thing I want, I want their sign maker. The guy is great. He does beautiful signage."

"You know, the old days was better when they used to write out their own sign, wasn't it?" the president added. "They'd make a sign in the basement. They'd have an old broken board holding up a sign, and it's made with a magic marker, sloppy as hell, and it meant something. But today, when you have that yellow and black, they should use different colors a little bit. But the yellow is a beautiful shade of yellow. Now I want to find out who that is. I want him to work for the work for the Republican campaign. He's much better than our guy, whoever the guy is."

The president continued on for several more minutes in that manner, weaving in and out of digressions to occasional laughter from his audience, until "The Situation Room" cut away.

"He's going all over the place, speaking on a wide range of issues," Blitzer told viewers.

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CNN cuts away from Trump reminiscing over "making a sign in the basement with a magic marker, sloppy as hell." (Original Post) Miles Archer Tuesday OP
Yeah well stop breathing and go to hell. Dave Bowman Tuesday #1
😂😂😂 underpants Tuesday #4
Perhaps referring people to dementia and alzheimers resources to understand would be responsible RockCreek Tuesday #2
"Talking over a wide range of issues." Baitball Blogger Tuesday #3
The better expression would be "thermal noise" ... eppur_se_muova Tuesday #5
As Jordan Klepper said "Oh...I feel a 'weave' coming" underpants Tuesday #6

RockCreek

(1,302 posts)
2. Perhaps referring people to dementia and alzheimers resources to understand would be responsible
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 06:03 PM
Tuesday

It's not diagnosing him, it's just saying that there are resources out there to understand why people might be taking like he does.

For example:
https://seniorsafetyadvice.com/dementia-talking-gibberish/

Baitball Blogger

(51,738 posts)
3. "Talking over a wide range of issues."
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 06:11 PM
Tuesday

What they mean he was rambling, dribbling or even speaking without a cogent topic.

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