'I have no cognitive': NPR analysis reveals litany of alarming Trump gaffes

Former President Donald Trump's most recent campaign speeches are not nearly as succinct or energetic as they once were, and riddled with gaffes, according to a new National Public Radio review.

The 78-year-old Trump's speeches are marked by "lower energy" and also a tendency to go off on "nonsensical tangents," NPR reported Tuesday. What's more, Trump seems to at times have difficulty recalling very basic vocabulary.

"When ad-libbing about a visit to a McDonald’s where he served food to supporters in a campaign stunt meant to attack Vice President [Kamala] Harris, he couldn’t remember the word fryer," NPR reported.

During the event, Trump reportedly said he took French fries "right out of whatever the hell they may come out of.”

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Trump has tried to put a gloss over these remarks by describing his style of speaking as a "weave," although his attempt to explain this concept befuddled podcaster Joe Rogan, NPR reported.

“I like to give a long — the weave,” Trump told Rogan last week. “But when you do the weaves, and you have to be very smart to do weaves, when you do the weave, look at this, just in this one thing, we’re talking about little pieces.”

“Gotta get it back home,” Rogan replied.

“No, no, it comes back home for the right people,” Trump said. “For the wrong people, it doesn't come back home and they end up in the wilderness, right?”

NPR noted Trump's difficulty pivoting away from attacks on President Joe Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris whom he now commonly refers to as low-IQ.

“I have no cognitive,” Trumps said in a recent town hall in Pennsylvania. “She may have a cognitive problem, but there's no cognitive problem.”