DU behavioral experts - what's with Trump saying everything twice?

[spiderpig]

Everything twice.

"Believe me...believe me"
"I love babies...I love babies"
"He's a great guy...a great guy"

(I heard you the first time, you moron.)

[unblock]

1. stall tactic / loves the sound of his own voice.

[yardwork]

2. Must be related to his narcissism.

[uppityperson]

3. The Big Lie? If you repeat something often enough, it takes on the truth.

Along with narcissism.

[TwilightZone]

4. Reminds me of Frank Caliendo's impression of John Madden.

He says that John Madden starts and ends sentences with the same phrase.

Great football is about great football.

In John's case, he probably got hit in the head a lot as a player. Not sure what Trump's excuse is.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. T's excuse would be sleep-deprivation (4 hrs nightly) but too stupid to realize he has a problem. nt

[Saviolo]

5. It's a mind game

Repeating things like that is a mind trick. The first time you hear it, your brain can gloss over it. If it's repeated again right away, it sticks more clearly in your mind.

It's like a little mini-hypnosis to make what he's saying stick more firmly in your brain. It's an old marketing trick and used by all kinds of showmen, stage magicians, and hypnotists.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. This is exactly right. Everything sentence is followed

By another that repeats and reinforces the first.

If you read any transcript it shows up immediately line after line.

[Monk06]

22. It's often, "I love babies. I love babies." ending with, "Don't we love babies" He first reinforces

his idea and then gets the audiance to explicitely responde in agreement This changes an idea from and individual thought on his part to a group thought In German it's called Gruppenpsychologie or mass
psychology

[Saviolo]

23. Exactly

He's a businessman, he's extremely good at marketing. This is a marketing gimmick, and there's no way he's using it accidentally. He may be using it reflexively after years of practicing it, but it's certainly no accident.

It's like the Jedi mind trick. Only works on weak-minded fools, but when it works, it works like crazy.

[Orsino]

6. Filling airtime and buying thinky-time.

If he ever stops talking, more people will notice that he's saying nothing.

[meow2u3]

7. So we have Donnie Two Times

[Kathy M]

12. I was posting and you already had it up :) lol

[TeamPooka]

15. you beat me too. Get the papers, get the papers. nt

[hlthe2b]

8. His exposure to "religion" apparently was limited to Normon Vincent Peale's church

of the "Power of Positive Thinking" book fame... I heard a piece on NPR with respect to the religious backgrounds of both Hillary (Methodist) and DT. This makes sense if you know anything about Peale. He was really into the positive think become positive reality vein of thinking and the repeated phrasing (self-talk) likely has to do with the tactics behind that.

[Kathy M]

10. A while back when Don does the repeating of words

Reminds me of Mob character Jimmy Two Times from the movie Goodfellas (1990) with Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0026907/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/

[ailsagirl]

11. He has so little of substance to say (if anything) that he uses the repetition to fill empty air

Or else it's a bad habit (most irritating to listen to)

Plus he's a LOUSY speaker-- just a lot of "sound and fury, indicating nothing."

[Kathy M]

13. Joking aside ...... he is reinforcing his words

The way he talks , the grade level he speaks at and repeating of key words and phrases he is reinforcing his message .

[Zambero]

14. A Wannabee blues singer perhaps?

The lyrical structure of the blues repeats the first line of a song's verse twice.
Hopefully Trump will have good cause to sing the blues, repetitions and all, come November.

[TeeYiYi]

16. Palilalia...

...is a speech disorder on the OCD/Tourettes spectrum.

TYY

[KT2000]

17. It's a loop that he can't stop

He does not have well formulated thoughts to express. He doesn't know where to go next.

[MoonRiver]

18. Bush did the same thing. Sign of a very small vocabulary.

He can't elaborate with more words, so he just repeats. Low IQ.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. What you said, plus reinforcement, plus he uses mindless repetition to stall while

he formulates his next thought and decides what to say.

I would also guess at some time in his life he developed this pattern to avoid too many "uhs and ums."

And yes, the man has no internal thesaurus. I noticed his elder sons have the same impediment.

[MoonRiver]

20. They were all born rich, and have nothing else going for them.

Rump really is very similar to dimson Bush.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. Rump makes Pretzel Boy look reasoned, disciplined and scholarly by comparrison.

Which is pretty terrifying in of itself.

[Bill USA]

24. Trump is a VERY insecure individual. He feels saying things twice for emphasis - is necessary becuz

he really isn't sure anybody is really listening or paying attention to him.


Another symptom of someone not being sure anybody is going to - really - listen to them, is loud talking - bellowing. I'm not talking about when on a lectern giving a campaign speech exhorting people to care about something, or to hate your opponent. I'm talking about people who talk loudly in normal conversation.

There is another reason involved here too. He 1) doesn't have much knowledge of anything he talks about. Not having much knowledge means he lacks detailed comprehension of his subject. THat plus a pretty limited vocabulary means he can't come up with much to say. So he fills what would be empty places with repetition of the few words he has used.

[Cha]

25. he doesn't think we heard him the first time?

[GulfCoast66]

26. The majority of psychiatrists will tell you

It means he is a dick.

[Motley13]

28. Repeating himself twice is the minimum

I've heard him do it 3 or 4 times.

[applegrove]

29. He's dyslexic. He sees a picture in his head of what he wants to say. And just because

he has already said it does not mean the picture goes away. So he describes it again. Dyslexics are 'form' based not 'language' based.

[Vanilla Warcraft]

30. I know why

Robert Deniro is his personal hero

[Doctor Jack]

31. Because he is a total moron

that can't speak like a normal person.

[3catwoman3]

32. Old advertising trick my dad taught me about when I was a kid.

Tell 'em what you're gonna say.

Say it.

Tell 'em what you said.