I swear to gawd, this is the first time he has read this speech.

[chelsea0011]

Someone told the orange clown to just struggle through reading the TelePrompter

[elleng]

1. 'I've said it, we should have kept the oil in Iraq'

[chelsea0011]

2. And he wanted to use the profits for dead and wounded

soldiers. He claims this was his idea all along. This is one giant pile of BS.

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Bizarre chain of thoughts there.

[elleng]

4. Really!

and again L G B T Q!

[chelsea0011]

5. And I just lost my pool. I didn't have Douglas McArther and George

Patton being mentioned in his speech.

[elleng]

16. HAHAHA!

SORRY!

[Johonny]

14. It's very 19th century of him to say this.

[elleng]

15. 'To the victor belongs the spoils!'

[Avalux]

6. It's hard to read a teleprompter convincingly when you're functionally illiterate.

He may be drugged as others are suggesting, but it seems more likely he can't read big words and complex sentences.

He probably had a temper tantrum about it before the speech, hence the puffy face.

[gratuitous]

11. Stephen King's "The Dead Zone"

The main character is a teacher who had an accident, was comatose for years, then woke up with the power to read people's minds. He spends much of the book avoiding this back-handed gift from the gods, and tries teaching again, but nobody will hire him. He finally gets a tutoring gig for a well-to-do family whose scion is a star athlete who can't read for shit. King describes the boy reading aloud a western novel as a lonely machine gunner picking off the words one by one, but with no real comprehension.

Trump impresses me the same way as he's stumbling over the teleprompter. There's no indication that Trump understands what he's reading, or that the words have any relation to each other. It might as well read "Dinosaur frothing gym bag nearby faked new the house" for all the sense Trump seems to derive from it.

[chelsea0011]

20. Yes!

[uponit7771]

7. What is with the long inhale!?!? Is he having a hard time breathing !!??!?!

[Vinca]

8. That's wishful thinking. LOL.

[uponit7771]

9. heh heh :-)

[nolabear]

12. He always does that with teleprompters. I think it shows how unnatural what he's saying is for him.

He can't keep up his usual cadence, the words are long, he has to read and talk at the same time. He's anxious. And he's old.

[uponit7771]

13. "... he has to read and talk at the same time...", Good sign that this guy is a little slow....

... he does not have a fit mind, used to people doing shit for him.

[elleng]

17. Please, nolabear, not THAT old,

some of us here are 'even older' than tramp (and HRC and Senator Sanders,) and we breathe and read just fine!

[nolabear]

18. Hey, I'm up there a bit myself. But sometimes things catch up.

Gets harder to admit all the time.

[Iggo]

21. I'm very concerned!

[63splitwindow]

10. Delivery unworthy of someone running for city council. That's the stark truth of who he is.

[matt819]

19. Haven't watched the speech

But I heard somewhere- some people were saying, not me, but some people, well, many people - that trump is functionally illiterate. Maybe this was the closest he could come to memorizing.