CNN cut off President Donald Trump during a speech he gave earlier today at the Kennedy Center because he was rambling incoherently about things he saw on TV, Nicolas Maduro dancing, trans women in sports, selling Boeing planes, and the anniversary of January 6 (which is today), which prompted Trump to again falsely claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election from him.

Many of the anecdotes Trump recounted he has used in previous speeches, but here they were chained one after another with no context, few details about any of them, and no apparent reason for him to be telling these stories.

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“My wife hates when I do this,” Trump said at one point in the speech, doing his bizarre impersonation of a trans weightlifter. “She said, ‘It’s so unpresidential.'”

“She hates it when I dance,” he continued, referring to how he dances to “YMCA” at his rallies. “She said, ‘It’s so unpresidential.'”

“Could you imagine FDR dancing?” he said, referring to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down.

Trump called himself “the king” and then claimed he won an award called “Salesman of the Year” for selling Boeing planes — though a quick Google search turns up no stories about this award — before switching tracks to talk about tariffs. He claimed there is a “tariff shelf” where extra money for the federal government appears, that the people who work for him don’t know about it, and that he has to remind them to “check” it regularly.

Trump was rambling about auto-pens when he started talking about a general, and CNN just cut off its broadcast of his speech.

“We’re going to continue to monitor the president of the United States,” CNN host Wolf Blitzer politely cut in. “He’s going all over the place, speaking on a wide range of issues.”

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