Trump is known for his rambling, meandering rants. Now he’s trying to rebrand them as his ‘weave’
Critics may be quick to write off Donald Trump’s meandering monologues and inability to succinctly articulate a party line as a major flaw.
But what is actually happening is the “most brilliant thing” academics have ever seen, the former president himself has claimed.
On Friday, while speaking at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he divulged what he claims to be his newly-coined strategy for the first time: the weave.
“When I do the weave… you know what the weave is?” Trump asked the crowd.
“I’ll talk about nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together,” he continued, waving his arms and interlocking his fingers.
Trump has long had a knack of making simple phrases rambling or extraordinarily complicated.
In January, for example, he once described using an iron dome missile defense system as “ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding… Boom. Okay. Missile launch. Whoosh. Boom.”
Now, he is trying to spin his wordy responses and long, disjointed speeches as an intentional tactic.
Trump’s advisors, senior Republicans and MAGA followers alike are pleading with the former president to peddle concise political messaging and stop rambling off script.
“Stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her positions,” former speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy told Fox News last month.
While devout Trump supporter Frank Scavo told The Guardian: “Trump’s got to focus on the message and not get distracted by personal attacks.”
The Republican presidential nominee, however, believes that his dissenters are mistaken and insists that he’s “not rambling” at all.
“Friends of mine that are like English professors, they say: ‘It’s the most brilliant thing they’ve ever seen,’” he said of the weave on stage on