'The Daily Show' breaks down one of Trump's most confusing 'weaves'

"Buckle up, everyone."
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"Buckle up everyone, the man's been up for four days, this is a jet lag weave. This could get bumpy."

That's Daily Show host Jordan Klepper's warning as he plays a clip of Donald Trump talking at a roundtable of defense contractors during his Middle East tour, starting off with military drones before going off on a truly hard-to-follow tangent about lumberjacks, and then Joe Biden, and then Pete Buttigieg riding a bike to work.

"At this point everyone in the room was probably like, 'Can we just give you our bribe and go home?'" says Klepper.

"We went from drones, to lumberjacks, to Sean Duffy, to Pete Buttigieg, back to Sean Duffy as a sexy lumberjack, and I won't play the rest for you because he went on for 13 more minutes, with mentions — and this is all true — of the stock market, he got into there for a little bit, Lee Greenwood obviously, and the 2020 election being rigged. And in case you're wondering when he weaved his way back to the drones, he never f***ing did."

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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