Mastodawn

"Why can't Trump get his story straight about the nukes?"

No one on the CNN panel will *really* answer this question: Trump just ... says stuff.

Creates a kind of halting problem:

“We obliterated the regime’s nuclear program”
(but then there is no reason for war so he says)
"They are close to nuclear"
(but that sounds like we messed up so he says)
“We obliterated the nuclear program”
(but then there is no reason for war so he says)
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etc.

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myrmepropagandist 1d ago

It is surreal to watch people who are experts at using the English language, people whose whole profession and skill is centered on communication trying to parse the words this man speaks. Like someone investigating a splatter of bird poop as if it were tea leaves or art.

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Princess Unikitty

@futurebird

It seems like "just say some words" is a baseline politician skill. It's important to be able to deflect. To say whatever *you* want to say instead of answering a question. Lots of them do this making of mouth noises that sound good and mean little. Trump has turned thay dial all the way to one side - the meaning is completely absent. Sound and fury signifying almost exactly nothing.