2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe ten most bizarre moments of 2016 Presidential debate
3. The word saladiness
Trump tossed some of the biggest word salads ever. He threw everything from the fridge and beyond in there. It was unbelievable. Uuuge! He was, in fact, mostly incoherent the entire night. One highly incoherent point came when he was asked about cyber security threats: "I don't think anyone knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She's saying Russia Russia Russia, but I don't. Maybe it was. I mean it could be Russia; it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?"
In addition to word saladiness, there is just the fact that Trump's world is pretty much a logic free zone. This was exhibited in his reponse to whether he has renounced his racist birtherism campaign against President Obama, and what took him so long? The answer is he wants to move on, she started it, and he got Obama to produce his birth certificate, and he's very proud of that. It's an illogical, offensive non-answer. Truly Trumpian! The word salad stems from a brain salad.
4. The weird brags
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http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/10-most-bizarro-moments-debate-and-just-after
BainsBane
(53,137 posts)stands out for me.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,464 posts)ISIS has been around for 70+ years? Hillary's been at war with ISIS for her entire life? Even as a baby? Whoa. That's some industrial size crazy there.
BainsBane
(53,137 posts)I wish I were kidding.
BTW, it's 60+ years, not 70+. I believe she is 68.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,464 posts)I couldn't remember her exact age.
That sort of statement sounds like something that could have been in some really bad movie.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)I didn't think the maggot was smart enough to hack.
LAS14
(13,792 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)woah!
Maeve
(42,316 posts)7. The temperament thing.
On a night where Trump interrupted, yelled, smirked, was rude to everyone, and incoherent to the point of possibly having a brain aneurysm, he saw fit to claim that he has "the best temperament" of all. Just to clarify, to him this means "because I know how to win." He has the best temperament, because he has the "winning temperament," and "we don't win anymore." This little run-on sentence suggests it is possible that Trump does not know what the word temperament means.
I really don't think he understands the word.