‘Rambling?!’ Trump Rally Crowd Listens Quietly As Trump Explains At Length How He Doesn’t Ramble

At his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Republican nominee Donald Trump told his crowd that the media will say he rambles, but that he does not ramble, and the reasons for the length and style of his remarks, and how people will also copy those remarks, before returning to his story from several minutes earlier about something he heard “the other day.”

The rally crowd at Wilkes-Barre on Saturday was quietly attentive when, as he was relating a story about Sen. Bernie Sanders not liking Vice President Kamala Harris — in keeping with a theme after earlier claiming that President Joe Biden “hates her” — Trump took an aside on the subject of rambling.

He began by saying that Harris is farther left than Sanders, and began to tell a story about that saying, “I heard the other day — And this isn’t anything, I’m just saying.”

He then shifted gears, saying, “They’ll say ‘he was rambling.’ I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy. You know, I’m really smart. I don’t ramble.”

Trump started to return to his story, saying “But the other day” before stopping himself again and returning to the aside.

“Any time I hit too hard, they say he was rambling,” he said. “Rambling?!”

Trump then talked about what he talks about at rallies and why and for how long, pointing out people wait a long time to come in and see one of his speeches. Eventually he wound up on the subject of whether people “copy” him saying “we are a nation in decline” before finally going back to what he heard the other day – which was that Sanders thinks Harris is “nuts.”

Trump also said at his rally that Harris “overthrew” Biden and won without any primary votes, asking “ why are we having an election ” if the Democrats didn’t.

I heard the other day – And this isn’t anything, I’m just saying. They’ll say ‘he was rambling.’ I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy. You know, I’m really smart. I don’t ramble. But the other day – any time I hit too hard, they say he was rambling. Rambling?

You know, I get up, and I make a speech, I go for sometimes two hours, two and half hours because, you know, people are waiting outside for three days, four days. You guys were waiting out there for a long time! Front Row Joes are waiting, I don’t know how you guys do it.

And I feel I have an obligation to speak, and speak in a certain way, and speak a little bit longer. You know, how would you like it, a guy’s waiting with his family for three and a half, four days. They have a tent and the tent is set up. They have hundreds of them, and they wait. And then I walk in, speak for 15 minutes and leave. I don’t know somehow, would that be okay, North Carolina? I don’t think so. Right.

They want me to speak all day. You know, when I leave – I did one, two hours and 15 minutes and I’m leaving and they’re screaming, no, sir. More. We want to hear more. I can’t, I can’t speak more. What the hell else am I going to say? Our country is going to hell. That’s all I can say. We’re a nation in decline.

You know, we were talking about that before. My phrases are copied so much, right? I use I use the term, often times in closing, we are a nation in decline. We are a failed nation. And I think it’s a beautiful phrase. Although I don’t like the topic very much, I don’t like what it represents. But there’s a certain beauty. All of a sudden all of these candidates, including Republicans, are saying we are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. And I say, you know, what the hell do they have to copy me for? Right?

But they have a lot of words that they copy. Many of our words. We were in the plane before coming in, and our people said we went through a list. I think we’re going to release a list, let’s release it. But so many of our phrases they copy. I should be really, that should be a nice thing, not an insult. But crazy Bernie Sanders has said a lot of things…

Watch the clip above via The Times and The Sunday Times on YouTube.