Trump Insists He's Not 'Cognitively Impaired' In Jumbled Rally Tangent

Former President Donald Trump insisted hes not cognitively impaired during a wandering, stream-of-consciousness spiel at a rally in Arizona on Sunday that, if anything, raised further questions about his mental acuity.

The Republican nominee started out his rambling thought by criticizing the fake news media at the Prescott Valley event, observing: Thats a lot of cameras.

Who the hell can do this two, three times a day? he continued, pivoting abruptly to talk, apparently, about the number of public appearances he makes. One little mistake, if I pronounce a word slightly wrong, and I tend not to go back, because I dont want to go back. I dont want to say, Uh, excuse me, let me go.

So I speak for hours, mostly without a teleprompter, really, mostly. One mispronunciation of a word Hes cognitively impaired. Hes getting old, hes getting old. He mispronounced a word like the name of the gang. If I did. You know, I think I got it perfectly, didnt I? he went on.

But if they see any, they watch for weeks and weeks, for weeks and weeks. Im up here, ranting and raving. Last night, 100,000 people. Flawless. Ranting and raving. Im ranting and raving. Not a mistake.

Trump held a campaign rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, that almost certainly did not have 100,000 attendees. While the exact figure is unclear, a permit issued for the event reportedly capped attendance at 15,000.

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Trump: For weeks and weeks, Im up here ranting and raving. Last night, a hundred thousand people. Flawless. Ranting and raving. Im ranting and raving. Ill say the, Ill say duh. Theyll say hes cognitively impaired. pic.twitter.com/9Gy0BpLuqH
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And then Ill be at a little thing, and Ill say something a little bit like, the, Ill say duh, theyll say hes cognitively impaired, Trump went on. No, Ill let you know when I will be. I will be someday. We all will be someday, but Ill be the first to let you know.

He added that President Joe Biden was obviously cognitively repaired, apparently mixing up repaired with impaired.

She should have reported him, because that puts our nation in danger. Weve never been so close to being in World War III, he added. It was not clear whom he meant by she.

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The former presidents erratic, hard-to-follow ramblings have prompted increased alarm from critics in recent days.

During a three-hour address in Detroit on Thursday, Trump trashed the very city he was speaking in and jumped bizarrely from tangent to tangent .

When he was running against Biden, he made the presidents mental acuity one of his key lines of attack, repeatedly challenging him to take a cognitive test. Trump, now the oldest presidential nominee in history at 78, has since faced similar questions about his own cognitive capacity.