Mental acuity

Sunday, in a clip posted by Aaron Rupar. My transcription:

“When you were in the Middle East you talked about the images coming out of Gaza and the starving kids. Those images are still going. Many of them are much worse. Thinner children, starving. What do you see or feel when you look at those images today?”

“Well, it’s terrible. You know, when I see the children, and when I see especially over the last couple of weeks, and people are stealing the food, they’re stealing the money, they’re stealing the money for the food, they’re stealing weapons, they’re stealing everything. It’s a mess. That whole place is a mess. The Gaza Strip, you know, was given many years ago so that they could have peace. That didn’t work out too well. When Israel gave that up, whoever was the Prime Minister at the time, who I know who it was, but it was not exactly a very clever thing to do. Because that was given so that they finally have peace, and it’s actually made the situation worse. But we’ll see what happens. Uh, I think Iran is acting up. I think that we have a lot of people acting up. We have Venezuela acting up in a different way. They’re sending — they continue to send people that we rebuff to our border. They continue to send drugs into our country, Venezuela. They’ve been very nasty, and we can’t let that happen. But, and we have other countries too. We do have, and this is just getting a little off subject, but we have now the safest border we’ve ever had. And I think in many respects we probably have the most successful. And I say it all the time. Every leader, when I went to NATO the other day, every leader said, ‘You have the hottest country in the world.’ We have the hottest country in the world now. We’re taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. We have the highest stock market we’ve ever had. We have the best numbers we’ve ever had. But we have hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our country. And I think it’s the hottest. And by the way, one year ago our country was dead.”

I find that reading, not listening, does more to bring home the sheer madness of the discourse.

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