'Wow': Trump's 'meandering' New Hampshire speech leaves MSNBC panel stunned
January 18, 2024
After watching clips of Donald Trump's "meandering" speech in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Wednesday night, MSNBC's Willie Geist responded with a stunned "wow" — and he and MSNBC co-host Jonathan Lemire suggested it was just one more example that the former president's mind appears to be going.
With Trump jumping from topic to topic and rambling about subjects that included "liquid gold," former GOP speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) "driving grannies" off cliffs — and then bringing up his mother-in-law dying — the two hosts suggested the former president is handing Democrats more ammo about his mental decline.
Noting a bizarre comment about "de-banking," Geist remarked, "Wow. That is some segue. Quote, 'They want to de-bank you,' and 'we're going to de-bank' — that's from Donald Trump."
"Truly, the reason you play [the clip] that is not truly for entertainment's sake, it is the side-by-side of them talking about Joe Biden being too old and senile, whatever they're throwing out," he continued. "If you watch any one of Donald Trump's long rallies, if that was a member of your family you would start talking about if it was time to check them in somewhere, if it was time to tweak medication, whatever it is. This is someone who wants to be president of the United States."
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"You'd ask for his driver's license certainly, not safe behind the wheel anymore," Lemire added. "The segue — and condolences to the first lady's family — the segue from grannies off the cliffs to Donald Trump's dead mother-in-law and just the extraordinarily erratic behavior."
"Americans haven't listened to Donald Trump for a while. Once they start tuning in and hearing big moments when he starts having campaign rallies in the heart of a general election and they hear all of that, that's going to defang what Republicans think is one of their best arguments: that Joe Biden is too old for the job. Joe Biden doesn't do that," he added.
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