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"She didn’t always have much to say. “My conversations with myself are proper dull,” she said. “I’ll be like, ‘Should I wash my socks today?’ ‘Yeah, go on, do it today.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/opinion/coronavirus-language-words.html
We live in a world of irony. Of metaphoric inversion, dirty tricks and venal cruelty relieved only by parody videos, memes and late night comics. Trump just plunged millions into desperation and is going to shut down the government...for Christmas.
Metaphoric inversion drives Donald's thinking. By preventing "pork"in the Covid Bill he is not providing pork and pork would be the political definition of stimulus for people. Thus by demanding more pork for us, Trump is saving us from ourselves...China. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330528204_Conceptual_Metaphors_in_Donald_Trump%27s_Political_Speeches_Framing_his_Topics_and_Self-Constructing_his_Persona
Anastrophe is reversing or displacing words in the wrong order is similar to Yoda's speech patterns or it could be caused by a speech processing problem. Trump does not structure as much as he reverses or inserts random words...that he just thought of. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/trump-cog-decline/548759/
Trump is also a fan of synecdoche and metonymy although he may never have heard of either phrase. https://qz.com/900800/donald-trumps-language-use-is-using-the-verbiage-of-victimhood-to-position-himself-as-americas-savior/
Trump's entire presidency is made up of synecdoches. Tiny parts of things that capture the larger Gestalt of his brutal impact on competence, decent and decorum. The impact of the reality show President will be analyzed for decades to come. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/09/10/perfect-synecdoche-trump-presidency/
Watch 80's videos of Trump in which he structures and times his answer to match the exact format and emotional timbre of the medium or interviewer. He used to use language to seduce. Now his brain sweeps up shards of ideas and tries to put them in order. https://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12423688/donald-trump-speech-style-explained-by-linguists
That's output. But what about input? According to co-workers, Trump's cognition is severely damaged by lack of focus, lack of comprehension poisoned by the same jagged frustration of not caring about complex issues. Age, drugs or degradation of capability? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/21/donald-trump-cognitive-test-closer-look
One thing is clear. In his final days in office, Trump's dissonance, calls for violence, social media trolling, narcissism and need for excitement via chaos... is in control of his brain. He is literally addicted to being the President. #ColdTurkeyJan20th https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-11-11/trump-twitter-outrage-addiction-recover
