There’s been all kinds of speculation out there about why Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump always sounds so incoherent. His unscripted comments are rambling, disorganized, repetitive, and plain old bizarre.
Some experts have written that he has ADHD, some that he is mentally ill.
I wrote recently that I believe he has an expressive language disorder. He’s learning disabled. He can’t organize his thoughts into a clean, sequential statement.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony award winning composer of ‘Hamilton’ and ‘In the Heights’, is less analytical and far more creative than I could ever be. He isn’t as interested in finding out why Trump’s language is such a mess, but he’s determined to make something funny and entertaining out of it.
Miranda recently put one of Trump’s incredibly rambling sentences to music. He called it a “soliloquy”, but it can also be called a one act (or one sentence) musical. Watch the video below.
.@Lin_Manuel turns one Donald Trump run-on sentence into a full musical pic.twitter.com/gUzIthpIQt
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) September 29, 2016
If that seemed odd, read the “sentence” that meandered its way out of Trump’s mouth. This was Miranda’s inspiration.
“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
Obviously the whole thing makes no sense. It sounds like the middle of the night ramblings of your drunk freshman roommate.
Mr. Miranda, however, sees art where the rest of us see insanity. Watch the video below to see how the genius made art out of Trump’s tweets, too.
Featured image via YouTube screengrab.
