In the final stretch of his US presidential election campaign, Donald Trump seems to be indulging in even more surreal, sometimes vulgar verbal detours. Donald Trump has long sprinkled his speeches with baffling digressions – weighing the relative merits of death by electrocution or shark attack, or comparing immigrants to the “late, great Hannibal Lecter” – sometimes even turning them into recurring bits. His penchant for peculiar statements was on full display at his debate with Vice-President Kamala Harris in September, when he falsely claimed that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets.
But in the final stretch of the campaign, whether because of fatigue or something else entirely, Trump seems to be indulging in even more surreal, sometimes vulgar verbal detours. Here are some of his strangest digressions from the homestretch of the campaign. Oct 1: Shoulda been a contender Trump’s affinity for the 1980s is no secret.
But few might have predicted he would devote part of his remarks at a campaign stop a month before the election to grumbling that R. Lee Ermey’s performance as a vicious drill sergeant in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket” had deserved an Academy Award. Without naming Ermey, Trump recalled that he had been a Marine drill instructor before becoming an actor, and said that he had made the war movie “one of the greatest”.
“He was supposed to get the Academy Award,” Trump said at an event in Waunakee, .