The potential future president had also told the crowd, “You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it’s a little bit true,” before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.

“Food has gone up at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. “We’ve never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent.”

The online response to Trump’s odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, “Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well.”

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    Aaand Denmark the country with the highest degree of wind power in the world, is also the worlds biggest exporter of bacon.

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    Vote with my stomach? Okay, it’s on the left side of my body. Guess I’m voting left.

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    I have never in my life heard anyone say you should vote with your stomach. Like I don’t even know where to start. What a crock of shit, it’s almost an art.

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    In case anyone was curious what he actually said, I’ve transcribed the provided snippet of what can be generously called his “speech”:

    "You know they say you’re gonna vote with your stomach - I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it’s a little bit true. And groceries food has gone up at levels that nobody’s ever seen before we’ve never seen anything like it fifty sixty seventy percent. you’d take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And uh- we’re going to get the energy prices down when we get energy energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy … wind, they want wind all over the place, but when it doesn’t blow we have a little problem. This was caused by energy this was really caused by energy and also their unbelievable spending their spending is out of… out of wealth, actually, they’re taking our wealth away, but it was caused by energy and what they’ve done is they’ve started cutting way back […] "

    It seems pretty clear to me that he’s… talking. I think he was saying that high energy prices have caused the price of groceries to go up, and that high energy prices are the result of the biden admin “spending [us] out of wealth” (whatever that means). So, you know, not literally saying wind power caused people to stop eating bacon, but that uh… wait… no that is what he’s saying. Spending on wind power is directly causing the price of bacon to go up. I’m not… just. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

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      My eyes began to involuntarily glaze over as I read the transcript, and I barely made it through three sentences. I am not sure how a person could actively engage with this drool for hours.

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        I honestly wonder if donald didn’t stumble into NLP or related areas (the hypnosis thing, the NLP thing, and related systems tend to be popular with people looking to sell a load of bullshit to others - just look at NXIVM and that woman that helped to run it and her background) and pick up a kind of cadence that people fall for - it has a hypnotic type of flow even if it is batshit insane stuff and outright lying he does throughout.

        I’m actually surprised someone has not dug into it to see if donnie has been into NLP/hypnosis.

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      The funny part is that could have edited or deleted that and moved in. His ego required him to double down and make a reference about how some insiders understand the reference.

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      Anyone can fat finger shit into an app.

      The disturbing part was the Redhats sagely nodding along like it meant anything.

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      It’s hilarious because he’s trying to repeat the narrative that ultimately allowed Hitler to rise to power and yet he and his handlers are such absolute retards they can’t even do that right.

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    It’s true. I was only ever eating bacon to keep the flying pig population in check, but now I don’t have to because the wind turbines will do the job.

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    For me, the weirdest claim was at the RNC convention when they brought a bunch of grieving veterans families on stage and claimed the media was ignoring soldier’s deaths under Biden…

    As if Trump wasn’t directly responsible for an incredible spike in service member deaths, a clear reversal from the Obama Era annual declines. SOURCE

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      Don’t forget Trump thinks dead soldiers are losers and doesn’t understand why people volunteer for the military. He also gave Putin and his allies a list of spies that resulted in many of their exposures and deaths.

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      Isn’t this the party that purposefully left in place a very weird plan to exit Afghanistan, and then blamed that on Biden, too?

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    Fkn Big Wind and their anti-pork agenda. Thank God for Trump, bringing the real issues to the forefront of discussion (big /s)