Donald Trump’s “glitch” during NRA speech raises questions

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-glitch-nra-speech-1902257

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  1. I watched it live on Youtube (I’m apparently a masochist). To me, honestly, it didn’t look like a glitch. He didn’t freeze like McConnell. I’d bet the actual reason was the teleprompter stopped working for a moment.

    Edit to add: [link to video](https://youtu.be/0U9cd07NzgY?si=Enhn4-qAdqcWWidE&t=5121) (video starts right before that moment)

  2. Money’s tight so Barron’s running teleprompter.

  4. So we have to wait for his moron brain to do the job that should have been done by American “journalism”? How come no one asks him to back up the bullshit claims he makes during these performances?

    “You said banks are collapsing. Tell me which banks you’re talking about.”

    That one’s free, journalism. If you find your balls let me know and I’ll create more questions for you.

  5. I saw the video, and Trump appears to be just as foolish as he usually is. For his ignorant followers to even take notice, he will have to deteriorate significantly.

  7. It looked like he was waiting for the sad music to kick in to really send home his alarmist dystopia bullshit. They’re going for the idea that if they say life sucks enough it will convince everyone that something drastic needs to be done like jan 6th. The whole campaign is built on manipulating weak peoples emotions.

  8. Obviously, he’s just practicing for the debates… when his microphone gets cut off. I suspect he’ll bring a boom box to play that same insipid music while Biden is speaking.

  10. When you’re the Anti-Christ like Trump, you can sometimes have Satanic connectivity problems. Then someone in Hell unplugs the router and plugs it back in again and the connection is reestablished.

  11. I hate Trump as much as anyone, but it just looks like his teleprompter might have stopped working.

    Still not a great look since he makes fun of Biden for reading off a teleprompter.

  12. Honestly it looks like the teleprompter failed. He doesn’t go blank like Mitch did. The fact that he didn’t know what he was saying while reading it says a lot (not that anything more needs to be said), but I feel like this is being turned into something it wasn’t.

  13. He was either shitting himself, having a stroke or his teleprompter went blank.

  14. After watching the video, I just think his teleprompter glitched and he paused until it came back on. Or he was just weirdly pausing for dramatic effect while the music swelled – he does a bunch of bizarro things during these rallies.

    It didn’t seem to be anything remotely like the Mitch McConnell thing that happened a couple of times. And definitely not a medical thing – just more of an odd choice from someone whose entire life is a series of odd choices. At least this one wasn’t criminal.

  15. Waiting for him to do that during the debates. Like Mitch McConnell.

  16. meanwhile we’ve spent zero effort addressing how he’s gone whole fascist with backing music during his speeches, you know that’s the full stink of Stephen Miller

  17. This is why Republicans want him. He will be a performance piece, like Reagan when he went around the bend in his second term, and the villains in his orbit will be able to implement whatever oppressive and greedy bullshit they please.

  18. Yeah, NewsWeek, that’s the behavior from trump that “raises questions”. You fucking idiots he’s a facist rapist inept piece of dirty shit on the ground. But him not talking for 30 sec is a fucking problem.

  19. He was taking a shit. Even when his teleprompter has stopped working in the past he just keeps bitching. He’s grimacing and looking back and forth. Shit-Gibbon is shitting.

  20. It was merely a bowel movement, he was just letting it pass.

  21. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but his teleprompter broke, we all know it broke. He was just upset his teleprompter broke. If we keep pushing bullshit like this, any legitimate criticisms will also look like bullshit. So quit the bullshit please

  22. Should I be concerned that a person whose pre-existing personality disorders already made him the single most unqualified person in America to hold the office of president might be glitching out, making him even more unqualified for the job?

  23. My die hard Trump loving friend from Houston refuses to believe it even occurred. Completely dismissed it as not real.

  25. Teleprompter probably said “hold for applause” and the applause never came

  27. This doesn’t raise questions.

    It provides a lot of answers.

  28. Frankly, I don’t care if it was a teleprompter/music glitch or not.

    If something similar happened to Biden, then it would have been blown up into an indictment on his health and been covered by every network and newspaper.

    Any excuse to question Trump’s mental faculty is welcome.

  29. Music starts playing in the background. Sounds like a video begins playing on a screen somewhere, that’s what he pauses for.

  30. I would love to see a compilation of the whiney, ‘woe is me’ performances he’s done over the year – it would really highlight how limited he is, and how it’s the same BS everytime, just change the names, places etc.

  31. McConnell has done the same thing. It’s an act of distraction.

  32. He blamed it on the teleprompter being down… Didn’t he brag about he was so sharp he didn’t need a teleprompter and made fun of Joe Biden for using one? 🙄

  33. I’m no trumper and he certainly has mental inadequacies, but watching the video it’s plausible that he was just waiting on the music to swell for dramatic effect. It isn’t an obvious dysfunction as with Mitch McConnell. And if it was, it’ll happen again. I hope it does, he couldn’t stop himself from falling asleep during his trial after all, even during the really juicy bits.

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