This is a transcript of the president's remarks at a press conference with Erdogan before the NATO summit in Ankara, taken from the YouTube video.
That's what hurt my relationship with NATO. Because Greenland doesn't help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland, but it's an important part for the United States. And it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships. And that's not going to happen. The ships is, it's not going to happen. It was Greenland that in my, and it continues to be... That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. And when they wouldn't go along with it and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia and we don't have to spend any money, we could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe. Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was 20 years ago. A lot different. Much different. It's a much different, and they better be careful with immigration and energy. If they're not careful with those two things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore.
Okay. Thank you very much everybody.
The
way it's punctuated it might seem vaguely coherent on first reading.
Looking more closely, he jumps from grievance to grievance, doesn't
finish a train of thought, and is practically babbling. Here it is with my annotations:
That's what hurt my relationship with NATO. Because Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland… but it’s an important part [He's looking for a word, can't think of it, says "part."] for the United States. And it’s surrounded by China ships [He can't think of "Chinese," says "China." He may be remembering "China virus."] and Russian ships. And that’s not going to happen. The ships is... [That's a blatant grammatical mistake, of course.] It’s not going to happen. [He doesn't say what isn't going to happen. Something to do with the ships? Denmark won't give up Greenland? We know they won't but he's still obsessed with it.] It was Greenland that—in my [He leaves out opinion.], and it continues to be ["my opinion"?]—that should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark. And when they wouldn’t go along with it... [He doesn't complete this thought and jumps to the grievance about NATO members not spending enough on their defense.]
And with all the money we spend to help them [He's forgotten about Denmark and Greenland, and jumped to Europe.] with Russia... And we don’t have to spend any money, we could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe, because as you probably noticed, Europe’s a very different place than it was 20 years ago. A lot different. Much different. It’s a much different... [It seems to be immigration that he's trying to think of now, not the money. It takes him a couple of tries to complete the thought.] And they better be careful with immigration and energy. If they’re not careful with those two things, you’re not going to have a Europe anymore. Okay. Thank you very much everybody.”
He can't put two consecutive sentences together to complete a thought. This is someone who, in my nonprofessional opinion as someone who's taken several cognitive tests, couldn't pass the simplest cognitive test.
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