Maggie Haberman Weaves Her Way Through Donald Trump's Latest Rambling 'PR' Attempt

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman dismissed former President Donald Trump’s claim that his tangent-filled ramblings are actually part of a genius tactic that he’s dubbed, “The Weave.”

Trump recently told a 2024 campaign rally in Pennsylvania:

NPR’s Dave Davies played audio of those Trump comments to Haberman on the “Fresh Air” show. Haberman deadpanned in response, “I don’t think he has friends who are English professors.”

“I don’t think that this is some intentional strategy,” she continued. “I think that he is aware that there’s a lot of questions about whether his speaking patterns have deteriorated, and he is just doing PR on that. I don’t think these various threads all weave together brilliantly toward the end.”

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Haberman was “very struck,” she said, by “how meandering” Trump was during a recent rally. “It was