Scarborough: Trump’s ‘Rambling’ NYT Interview Is Like ‘William Faulkner on Acid’

Scarborough: Trump’s Rambling NY Times Transcript ‘Like William Faulkner on Acid’ (Mediaite) 

Discursive. It’s a word that has been used a lot lately to politely describe President Donald Trump‘s free-form and stream-of-conscience manner of speaking in a more flattering light. Synonyms include “rambling,” “digressive,” and “wandering.”

But given the souring of the relationship between the President and  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, it’s probably fair to say that Morning Joe co-hosts were being less generous in their description of audio of Trump’s recent interview with the New York Times, when Scarborough derisively described the audio “like William Faulkner on Acid.”

For the less well-read readers, Faulkner is a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American author (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying) who often employed a unique narrative style of seemingly disconnected plot lines and thoughts. And, for the less drug-literate readers, “acid” is colloquial term for the hallucinogenic drug LSD.