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by Tamar Auber | Aug 21st, 2018, 9:01 pm
Speaking to an enthusiastic rally crowd in West Virginia on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said deals have to gestate just like his beloved mothers Thanksgiving turkeys. It all started when Trump was talking about China.
I have tremendous respect for China. I mean, the energy, the genius
its incredible what they have done. We cant do it, its got to be a two-way street. We have only one-way streets, Trump opined. You know what bothers me? I have people coming to me, some people in Congress sir, can you get this deal done immediately?'
He then said that the deal wouldnt be any good if he did that because its gotta gestate. The word gestate.' The president continued on, Like when you are cooking a chicken. Time
Time
Turkey for Thanksgiving.
Then Trump said this: My mother would say 8 hours. I said 8 hours?
She made the greatest turkey I ever had. It takes time. It takes time. So when they run and say can you do NATO right now, can you sign it next week? I say, wait a minute
I like Mexico. I like the new leader. I think hes gonna be terrific. A little different than us. I think I am doing better with him than with the capitalist. But he knows Mexico needs the United States.
For the record, cooking a turkey is usually called roasting not gestating. In addition, according to Butterball, roasting a turkey does not take nearly 8 hours.
video:
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-goes-on-rant-comparing-deals-to-his-mothers-turkey-which-was-the-greatest/
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The only time she went into the kitchen on Thanksgiving would be to scream at the help.
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)that's a bitchin' curl
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to her elaborate carapaces and dress, even though the two did not seem to have a close relationship and he almost never talks about her.
And when he does, "mother," "gestate"? What's THAT all about?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)In a Cryptkeeper-meets-Elsa Lanchester kind of way.
Nevilledog
(51,184 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)But It wasn't eight hours it was nine months
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)FSogol
(45,524 posts)It is orange, has tiny hands, and a sphincter-like pie hole.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,773 posts)The chicken or the turkey?
underpants
(182,868 posts)Trump doesn't like "the capitalist"?
Holy smokes. Aside from the stupid turkey thing that paragraph made me dumber.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,355 posts)They'd had a bit of discussion of co-conspirators and such, and then said they'd go live to his speech, because he was scheduled to talk about coal, for which they had a commentator on the line. So we heard '...the word gestate. Like when you're cooking a chicken. Time. Time. Turkey for Thanksgiving ...'.
I really thought until now I'd misheard 'gestate', and it had been 'baste' or something.
Then presenter then came back in, saying "OK ... he's talking about ... turkeys. Umm, we'll move on ...".
Someone recently compared Trump speeches to awful imitations of Joyce's Ulysses - a stream of consciousness from someone with barely a coherent thought in their head. What happens in his mind that when he says "gestate" in a sentence, he stops, associates it with cooking, and then tells thousands of people about that, knowing it will be reported around the country and world? Even the rabid audience don't want stuff like that - they wanted to be told its was OK to burn coal, and given a 2 minute hate of Hillary, Mueller or whoever.
They Trump has never been an alcohol drinker. He sounds permanently like the crap you come up with after a whole evening drinking.
underpants
(182,868 posts)I will say that I took his "gestate" pause was for him to basque in what he is certain is their awe at his using that word and then internally laughing to himself how smart he is to have tricked them and how dumb they are to follow. He really really doesn't like the non-rich.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,355 posts)and milking it when he's managed to use one.
underpants
(182,868 posts)Someone's hooked on phonics
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)3catwoman3
(24,032 posts)...a while, like reciprocal/reciprocity (or whatever the hell it was) and he will use it every chance he gets.
His ridiculously limited vocabulary make me want to scream -
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)3catwoman3
(24,032 posts)...disgrace.
PatSeg
(47,567 posts)It is like all the circuits in his brain are misfiring and being he has such a limited vocabulary to begin with, it sounds totally bizarre. His use of some words is stunning - "gestating" the turkey? What a strange, strange man.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)...where the several residents who can't sleep are all talking at once.
maxrandb
(15,349 posts)according to Donnie Short Fingers, she "gestated" it.
I'm not fucking making that up
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Gawd I love the Internets.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Javaman
(62,533 posts)she was a real piece of work.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)I'm no expert on assessing people who are tweaked out on something....but isn't he????
These unhinged, untethered flights of blabber....
If he was a drooler too we might be able to get him in a home.
Vinca
(50,302 posts)It's like the babbling and muttering heard outside the barred windows of a psychiatric facility.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and gestate in safety. There's certainly no safety in the corner he's trapped himself in.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)If you let the chicken gestate long enough ....Turkey!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)You know it's coming. Quotes from trump family members back in the mists of time commenting on the fact the mom wasn't that good a cook, never cooked meal in her life, etc.
33taw
(2,447 posts)Saint, but that they would never write about her.
maxrandb
(15,349 posts)Like Nixon and the famous Checkers speech.
God help the dog too.
Different Drummer
(7,641 posts)Captain Cockroach has no idea what he's saying. Ever.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)He's never been able to get turkey like his mom 'made' since then. Look and try as he might.