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Speaker 3: Mia out Loud each week to unpack all the batshit
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Speaker 1: Okay. The first thing you need to know is that
Speaker 1: I got a text from a friend yesterday and I'm
Speaker 1: going to read it in its entirety. This is a
Speaker 1: friend in the US. Imagine it's twenty twelve, Barack Obama
Speaker 1: was just reelected, and you receive this article from the future.
Speaker 1: This is an article from the Washington Post. There's nothing
Speaker 1: in this world that could convince you it's real. I
Speaker 1: still don't believe it's a reported story from a real event.
Speaker 1: Would you like to know how I would? I should
Speaker 1: stop and say, no, it's not an assassination attempt, though that
Speaker 1: did happen. That's that's even we'll get to that. This
Speaker 1: is a surprising thing. This is the headline. Trump sways
Speaker 1: and bops to music for thirty nine minutes in bizarre episode. So,
Speaker 1: all right, what happened here? Because I've seen tweets about it,
Speaker 1: and sometimes.
Speaker 2: You just look at it and you go, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: sure everyone's exaggerating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, I have never read an article in
Speaker 1: the New York Times where the reporter was so clearly
Speaker 1: confused yet still had to write an article and describe
Speaker 1: what happened. So what happened was Trump was doing a
Speaker 1: rally in you guessed at Pennsylvania because basically that's the
Speaker 1: one state where everyone's going to the next couple of
Speaker 1: weeks it is deciding the election. He was at a
Speaker 1: town hall in Pennsylvania and then two people needed medical attention,
Speaker 1: which is also not surprising because the median age at
Speaker 1: his rallies tends to be somewhere around seventy five. They
Speaker 1: needed the medical attention, and he was sort of waiting
Speaker 1: to see what happened there, and then he decided he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to talk about small business or the economy
Speaker 1: or inflation anymore. He just wanted to listen to some music.
Speaker 1: So he was said that song that he does whe
Speaker 1: where he does his little fist. Yes, that extremely well. Yes,
Speaker 1: y m c h.
Speaker 4: To dance to that on the stage show and we
Speaker 4: are not dances and we did a better job than
Speaker 4: Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Anyway, there was a lot of fist dancing. So for
Speaker 1: thirty nine minutes, Yeah, he played his greatest hits. He
Speaker 1: played Walliam Ca, He played Ave Maria twice. That's a
Speaker 1: down ut, which which I think is a diagram between
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Muriel Heslop is that they both love
Speaker 1: the song are Vey Maria. What's interesting is he can't
Speaker 1: play a lot of the songs he wants to play
Speaker 1: these days because artists keep sending him seasoned desists. So
Speaker 1: he used to love the Rolling Stones song you Can't
Speaker 1: Always Get what you want. They sent him a season desist,
Speaker 1: James Brown, it's a man's man's man's well.
Speaker 4: That would be a big.
Speaker 1: Snead O'Connor performing. Nothing compares to you, Now I know.
Speaker 1: If there's one politician Shinetdo kinda loves, it's absolutely Donald.
Speaker 4: Trump spinning in her grave speak.
Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, past tense. Yes. So anyway, it was a
Speaker 1: really odd episode. No one really knows what to make
Speaker 1: of it. But he had another odd episode this week
Speaker 1: because he was at a rally in Arizona and he
Speaker 1: said that he wanted to we think he was saying
Speaker 1: Assyrians for Trump, but he said in such a way
Speaker 1: that it sounded like Ascerasians, and no one really know
Speaker 1: what he meant, and so there were various theories. People said,
Speaker 1: could he have met Arizonans? Could he have meant Azerbaijan's.
Speaker 1: But then eventually the case was cracked. There was a
Speaker 1: group of people in red t shirts that read Assyrians
Speaker 1: for Trump. Assyrians are, of course, and ancient people who
Speaker 1: trace their roots to northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.
Speaker 1: The Facebook group Assyrians for Trump only has one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty six members, so it's not a hugely important
Speaker 1: swing group in this election. He's clashing it through us.
Speaker 4: So I've seen a lot of people say that this
Speaker 4: is further evidence of his cognitive decline. Other People were
Speaker 4: saying he didn't like the questions that were being asked.
Speaker 4: Others are saying he's avoiding making gaffes like my.
Speaker 2: Numbers with the black and especially black men.
Speaker 1: I love black men, I love them, I love them.
Speaker 1: I have gone through the roof with black men.