Trump defends "the weave" in Iowa closing speech

MeidasTouch's Ben Meiselas examines a midterm rally that moves from claims about winning wars to complaints about NFL kickoff rules.

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🚨Trump CRASHES OUT with Iowa CLOSING MESSAGE…

Donald Trump has an answer for anyone who calls his speeches rambling: "This isn't rambling, this is genius if you want to know."

That defense becomes a central thread in Ben Meiselas's MeidasTouch commentary on Trump's closing campaign speech in Dubuque, Iowa. Rather than presenting the full rally, Meiselas intersperses excerpts with his criticism of the president's election message.

Trump says he could have won the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars within a week. Later, he explains what he calls "the weave": connecting separate stories as he speaks. The excerpts also show him discussing whether his Black friends prefer "Black" or "African American," before turning elsewhere in the speech to football.

His complaint there is specific: the NFL's new kickoff rules. "Who the hell wants to watch football? It's boring as hell," Trump says in the clip.

Meiselas uses these shifts to challenge the substance and focus of Trump's final pitch to voters. The video's combative title describes Trump as crashing out; that is the host's framing, while the footage lets readers hear the remarks behind it.

Near the end, House Speaker Mike Johnson offers a different assessment from the rally stage, praising Trump's work schedule and how little he sleeps.

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