Agent Orange, the malignant narcissist and big time charisma king, speaks in tongues with rhythmic intensity defying physics and logic at the same time. The man is smart but scattered and totally reliant on pr in order to function. Never apologize, never admit you're wrong, just bloviate and attack as this is how Roy Cohn, the master of lies and invective, operated, both as mentor to Trump as well as being the consiglieri to McCarthy.
“The president has a certain way of speaking,” said Mr. Meadows. “And what he means — well, the sum can be greater or less than the whole.”
The words that will very likely get Mr. Trump indicted in Georgia, and possibly Mr. Meadows along with him, were, a weary Mr. Meadows seemed to be saying, more of the same, part of Mr. Trump’s unmediated fire hose of verbiage, an unstoppable sequence of passing digressions, gambits and whims, more attuned to the rhythms of his voice than to any obligation to logic or, often, to any actual point or meaning at all and hardly worth taking notice of.
Does Mr. Trump mean what he says? And what exactly does he mean when he says what he says? His numerous upcoming trials may hinge on these questions.
Tony Schwartz, his ghostwriter on “The Art of the Deal” — as bewildered more than 30 years ago by Mr. Trump’s disconnected-from-reality talk as anyone might be today — came up with a formulation that tried to put Mr. Trump’s rhetorical flights from earth in the context of a salesman’s savvy. In other words, if you took him at his word, you were the fool, and yet, perhaps even more to the point, he succeeds because he comes to believe himself, making hime the ultimate fool (as well as the ultimate salesman).
Sounds right to me.
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