A.B.O.U.T. Behavior #16 : Non Sequiturs
Nobody was surprised last week that Mr. Trump stuffed his speech, to a group of young conservatives, with non sequiturs, rather than having all of his verbal ducks in a row. Narcissism can’t account for this pattern because such language doesn’t project an image of power or proficiency. And these speech patterns aren’t a strategy to keep his enemies off-kilter, since he displays them most prominently with friendly, receptive audiences, like the recent Turning Point crowd, in West Palm Beach. Mr. Trump’s non sequiturs exemplify his ADHD in action.
To assure you that this is not “fake news”, and that I am not taking words out of context, this paragraph of the transcript comes from WhiteHouse.gov itself:
We’ll have an economy based on wind. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know. It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly — very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous — if you’re into this — tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China…
