CNN’s Wolf Blitzer And Maggie Haberman Wreck Trump ‘Totally Rambling’ Speeches: Were Never ‘Exactly The Works Of Shakespeare’

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman and anchor Wolf Blitzer roasted ex-President Donald Trump over his “totally rambling” speeches, which Haberman compared unfavorably to the Bard’s oeuvre.

Trump has long been criticized for his rambling speeches — so much so that he invented an elaborate construct called “the weave” to explain it away — but his rally antics have become increasingly bizarre and fueled speculation and attacks about his stability and fitness.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room , Blitzer asked Haberman for her insights, noting of Trump’s speeches that “so many of them have been totally rambling.”

Haberman cut even deeper:

BLITZER: Maggie, I noticed that your New York Times colleague, Michael Bender, wrote this about the concern from Trump’s advisers about his rambling campaign speeches, and so many of them have been totally rambling.

And he writes this, they worry that Mr. Trump’s impetuousness and scattershot-style on the campaign trail needlessly risks victory. What are you hearing about this?

HABERMAN: There’s been a concern about his speeches and the length of those speeches for quite some time. They’ve been trying for months to get him to shrink them down. If you compare, and Peter Baker talked about this, another colleague, in a recent piece, the speeches were shorter in 2016 and they were less angry and they were more coherent. They are concerned that voters are just going to see this sort of unfiltered meandering version of Trump and that it is going to damage him because that is what gets picked up in local coverage much more than anything else.

Why do you think his speeches are getting crazy like that?

HABERMAN: Well, I don’t exactly think that his speeches were ever, you know, the works of Shakespeare, right, in terms of being sort of straight and linear. But he has always meandered. He has always, you know, drifted off into various tangents and so forth.

I think he’s very angry. I think that a number of things have happened this year. I think he was convicted in Manhattan. Then he had an assassination attempt where he was, you know, millimeters away from losing his life. And then he suddenly was facing a new opponent. And I think he is disoriented by all of that.

BLITZER: It’s obviously shaken him up.

Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room .