GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has shown an inability to answer direct questions over the course of his 2024 campaign, often jumping from one subject to another and to another and another and another without finishing a complete sentence on any of them. When he was called out for this rambling during his appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago yesterday, he explained that its a move he calls The Weave, and the audience started laughing at him. Related Former Trump admin officials warn his alarming cognitive decline has accelerated The New York Times analyzed his recent speeches and noted their evidence of his aging mind. Donald Trump hasnt faced much criticism for his inability to talk coherently this year, with many larger media organizations often paraphrasing his rants to make it appear like he had a point in a process that has been called sanewashing. But live audiences are noticing it. Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers candidates, issues, and perspectives that matter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today He sat down yesterday with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait to discuss topics like immigration, tariffs, and corporate policy. Micklethwait repeatedly tried to get Donald Trump to directly answer his questions instead of rambling about the random thoughts in his head, pressing him again and again to bring him back to the topic at hand. In one notable interaction, Micklethwait tried to ask Donald Trump about the U.S. dollars status as the international reserve currency, and Donald Trump started rambling. Micklethwait interrupted him and tried to get him to talk about the dollar.You gotta be able to finish a thought because its very important, Donald Trump said. You know, this is big stuff were talking about, you cant go that quick-Youve gone from the dollar to [French President Emmanuel] Macron, Micklethwait responded, exasperated.So let me just tell ya, I said, no, Im just tellin ya basic, uh. Its called The Weave,' Donald Trump said. Its all these different things happening.People in the audience could be heard laughing at him. So let me just say, I said to Mnuchin he said as he continued to ramble. Trump: You gotta be able to finish a thought because its very important. This is big stuff.Micklethwait: Youve gone from the dollar to MacronTrump: Its called the weave pic.twitter.com/j2UYp9jkQu Acyn (@Acyn) October 15, 2024Last month, Trumps out lesbian niece, Mary Trump, wrote about her uncles incoherent rants and how some media organizations try to hide them from their audiences after Donald Trump appeared at the Economic Club of New York and rambled about his daughter, tariffs, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) when asked about how he would make childcare affordable in a clip that went viral.Mary Trump wrote that the corporate media believe they must translate Donalds nonsensical ramblings into a version of the English language we can all understand.She noted that, while reporting on the event, the Associated Press wrote that Donald Trump had suggest[ed] tariffs can help solve rising child care costs;Politicowrote that he had laid out a sweeping economic vision of lower taxes, higher tariffs, and light-touch regulation; andThe New York Timeswrote that Donald Trump had praised tariffs.Several other publications made similar reports,transgender journalist Parker Molloy noted. She and journalist Aaron Rupar called this a sane-washing of Donald Trumps comments. Weighing in, Mary Trump wrote, Thats a huge problem because, on the one hand, theyre not really translating his words theyre imbuing them with a meaning that is not there; on the other hand, theyre doing this without telling us theyre doing it.Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Bidens age renderedhimmentally unfit, wouldnt look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes, she continued. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald isdementing.Donald really does seem to have worn down the corporate medias willingness to cover him properly. Its too badtheyre missing a story most people would be interested in, she added. American democracy depends upon a thriving fourth estate to function optimally. Thats not what we have right now. Not even close. LGBTQ Nation transcribes Donald Trumps rants fully for readers when appropriate, like in this July article about an interview Donald Trump did with Foxs Laura Ingraham that discussed gender issues. Ingraham asked Donald Trump about his claim that, if he gets elected, people wont have to vote again in 2028 and even tried to lead him to a coherent answer, but she was unable to stop The Weave.I started off by saying, just so you understand, you never vote, he said. Christians do not vote. Well, they vote in very small percentages. Why? I dont know. Maybe theyre disappointed in things that are happening, but for a long time, I say, you dont vote. Im saying, go out, you must vote, November 5th is gonna be the most important election in the history of our country. Whether you vote early or not, we should have, by the way, one-day voting, we should have voter ID, we should have proof of citizenship, and we should have paper ballots, OK? Thats what we should- but we dont have that! But I said to the Christians in the room, thousands of them, I said, typically, Christians do not vote. Why it is, I dont know, youre rebellious, somethings going on, dont worry about the future, vote or- You have to vote on November 5th. After that, you dont have to worry about voting anymore, I dont care, because were going to fix- The country will be fixed and we wont even need your vote anymore because frankly, we will have such love if you dont want to vote anymore thats OK.And I think everybody understood it.Ingraham asks Trump about his comments telling Christian backers they won't have to vote again in 4 years. Trump responds by saying Jews should have their heads examined if they vote for Dems. Ingraham presses him & Trump doesn't exactly quell concerns he wants to end elections. pic.twitter.com/khGeauqp9S Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2024Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.