"I think they had a tragic event in Buffalo. Tragic event in Buffalo with numerous people being killed. In 18 months in Afghanistan, we lost nobody." — May, 2022
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right — who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four--but when it was three and even now, I would have said ..." — July, 2016
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And on, and on, he went.
The first quote's Say what? non sequitur and self-aggrandizement purchased on the murders of 10 innocent people are unsettling enough. The second quote is chock full of so much scrambled "thinking," it's downright frightening — not because he demonstrated that his brain was full of mush, but because 62,984,828 Americans then marched out of their house and voted for "it."