Monday, June 22, 2026

Trump At South Dakota Rally: Did He Freeze Up, Doze Off, or Have a Reverie with Strange Pause in Speech?

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Donald Trump spouted off his usual nonsense yesterday in South Dakota at a rally of his supporters.

But this video shows he came to an abrupt stop in the middle of his thoughts. Did he freeze up like Mitch McConnell did recently? Is he having a sudden flashback, a reverie to a time before his four indictments? It looks a little like he dozed off.

Trump also looks like he’s tearing up. He’s been exposed for over stating his wealth by $3 billion and had to sell a New York golf course to pay legal fees which are now mounting quickly. His Truth Social is also in financial trouble and his number of vicious attacks there has slowed down to a trickle.

But what is this? It looks for several excruciating seconds….

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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