Trump’s North Carolina speech went predictably off the rails. Can he even spell ‘economy’?

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Trump’s North Carolina speech went predictably off the rails. Can he even spell ‘economy’?

Former president and self-described stable genius

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know what was

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: “We’re talking about a thing called the economy.”

Ah, yes. That thing is called the economy. I’ve heard of it.

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: “We’re doing this as an intellectual speech.”

Good. Many Republicans have encouraged Trump to stop babbling and hurling insults and steer his campaign onto some kind of coherent message.

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*********** presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump applauds during a campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. August 14, 2024. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

“You’re all intellectuals today,”

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. “Today we’re doing it and we’re doing it right now and it’s very important, they say it’s the most important subject. I think ****** is right there, I think the border is right there, personally. We have a lot of important subjects because our county has become a third-world nation, we literally are a third-world nation. We’re a banana republic in so many ways, and we’re not going to let that happen because we’re starting a free fall.”

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Hoo boy. Trump spends less time on track than a decommissioned train car. And so it was that his highly intellectual speech on a thing called the economy became, predictably, a ***** speech on a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with the economy.

Like making fun of

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Trump proves again in North Carolina that insults are all he has

“For nearly four years Kamala has crackled as the ********* economy has burned,”

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, presumably mispronouncing “cackled,” because he struggles with words. “What happened to her laugh? I haven’t heard that laugh in about a week. That’s why they keep her off the stage, that’s why she has disappeared.”

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Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris gestures during a campaign rally at the Thomas and Mack Center, University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 10, 2024.

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states lately, doing far more events than Trump and drawing crowds significantly larger than the one that showed up Wednesday to hear him occasionally reference the economy.

“That’s the laugh of a crazy person, I will tell you,”

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. “She’s crazy.”

Labeling Harris crazy and mocking the way she laughs is the kind of thing Republicans keep advising Trump not to do. But he couldn’t help himself, later

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‘Kamabla’? Trump isn’t just losing the election, he’s losing his mind.

Trump’s understanding of how the economy works seems dodgy at best

When he did deign to talk about the economy, Trump said things like this, referencing the brief stock market drop of last week,

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is because people think I’m going to win, did you ever hear that? But there was one day a couple weeks ago when they weren’t thinking that.”

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*********** presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana, U.S., August 9, 2024.

OK, first off, nobody thinks Trump has anything to do with the stock market being up. And then to think last week’s drop –

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– happened due to a brief belief that Harris might win the election? That makes me wonder if Trump can even spell “economy.”

An economic speech about … *****?

Of course, no intellectual presidential campaign speech on the economy is complete without

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, so Trump said: “***** and *******, ***** and beatings, ***** and something else, and sometimes just immediate ********. These people are brutal. These are people that came out to the toughest jails anywhere in the world all over the world, and we can’t take them.”

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, but, you know … THE ECONOMY!

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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris campaigns in Las Vegas on Aug. 10, 2024.

Speaking of the economy, while Trump was occasionally mentioning the word – providing no concrete policy proposals other than specious claims he will singlehandedly fix everything –

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The economy is simply not the disaster Trump and the GOP claim

And that gets to the heart of one of Trump’s biggest problems. The economy is doing reasonably well. Unemployment is low, the stock market has been breaking records and inflation continues to drop. Back in April,

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: “The U.S. economy is leading the way for the global economy. It’s driving the global economic train.”

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So, calling America a third-world country while taking childish swipes at the vice president’s laugh and *****-mongering about an immigrant ****** wave that doesn’t exist? That’s not going to do much to swing voters who

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since she took over the top of the Democratic ticket.

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, and they know he needs to show voters something that will help him regain footing. His intellectual speech on that thing called the economy didn’t show anyone anything.

It was just another stumble from an aging candidate who can’t see that his schtick has gotten old.

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