YOU’VE HEARD IT BEFORE

A product of the Dale Carnegie-influenced world of New York business, Trump almost never uses “filler” words like “uh” and “um.” Instead, while he is forming his next thought, he fills the time with repetition. The result is seemingly fluent speeches, which can go for long stretches without any new information. A one-paragraph response at Wednesday’s debate, for instance, included the sentences “Putin has outsmarted her,” “she’s been outsmarted by Putin” and “she has been outsmarted.”