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" Roughly 1,500 people in Iowa experienced something truly special last night: Peak Donald Trump. The Republican presidential candidate ranted for 95 minutes, suggesting the people of Iowa\u2014and indeed\u00A0all Americans\u2014are\u00A0&amp;quot;stupid&amp;quot; while mocking his competitors. But he reserved his most outrageous attacks for his chief rival, Ben Carson, whom he compared to a child molester. By nearly all accounts, this was Trump&amp;#039;s most unhinged performance to date\u2014an enormous claim\u00A0given his campaign strategy of attacking women, Mexican people,\u00A0John McCain&amp;#039;s military service,\u00A0and basically anyone else\u00A0who dares\u00A0challenge\u00A0him. According to The Washington Post: The usually punctual executive was nearly 40 minutes late. His voice was hoarse, his hair mussed, his tone defensive. He promised to take questions from the audience but instead launched into a 95-minute-long rant that at times sounded like the monologue of a man grappling with why he is running for president\u2014and if it&amp;#039;s really worth it or not. Even for a candidate full of surprises, the speech was surprising. Throughout the 95 minutes, Trump veered\u00A0from preacher to talk-show host to New York City food-cart vendor\u00A0who insists on giving\u00A0you his half-baked\u00A0opinions,\u00A0even though you just wanted a hot dog. A few of the many bizarre moments:   Trump signed a book for a guy and then tossed it into the audience, saying, &amp;quot;Here you go, baby. I love you.&amp;quot; He said he&amp;#039;d &amp;quot;bomb the shit&amp;quot; out of oil fields controlled by ISIS after saying he knew more about the terrorist organization than U.S. generals.  He called journalists &amp;quot;scum&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;garbage&amp;quot; (never mind that Trump, more than any other candidate, has enjoyed months of free press).  Trump also dug\u00A0into his various competitors:  He called Marco Rubio &amp;quot;weak like a baby&amp;quot;;  He referred to Carly Fiorina as &amp;quot;Carly whatever-the-hell-her-name-is&amp;quot;;  He accused Hillary Clinton of playing the &amp;quot;woman card.&amp;quot;  Those jabs are more or less par for the course in Trumpland, but things got weird\u2014even by his standards\u2014when he turned his attention to Carson, criticizing the candidate for a full nine minutes. While audience members\u00A0hooted and hollered for parts of his speech, they\u00A0piped down during this portion, reports Politico. That&amp;#039;s partly because Carson is popular in Iowa, but it&amp;#039;s also because\u00A0watching Trump attack him in this manner is like watching your half-drunk uncle discuss politics. It&amp;#039;s uncomfortable and more than a little embarrassing.         Discussing one of Carson&amp;#039;s books, where the candidate said he suffered a &amp;quot;pathological disease,&amp;quot; Trump said the mental illness was akin to child molestation because it&amp;#039;s incurable.  &amp;quot;A child molester, there&amp;#039;s no cure for that,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re a child molester, there&amp;#039;s no cure. They can&amp;#039;t stop you. Pathological? There&amp;#039;s no cure.&amp;quot; He then questioned Carson&amp;#039;s story about attacking his mother and trying to stab someone with a knife\u2014an attack that Carson said was thwarted by the intended victim&amp;#039;s belt buckle. For this, Trump stepped away from the podium and acted out, in excruciating detail, why\u00A0the story\u00A0is bogus. He even asked the audience if anyone has a knife. \u00A0&amp;quot;You want to try it on me?&amp;quot; he asked.  The climax of the rant\u00A0came when Trump questioned the intelligence of the very people to whom he was speaking. &amp;quot;How stupid are the people of Iowa?&amp;quot; he asked a group of Iowans.\u00A0&amp;quot;How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?&amp;quot; But the conclusion of the 95-minute speech\u00A0was actually\u00A0kind of poignant.\u00A0He suggested he might move to Iowa and become a farmer, then said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve really enjoyed being with you. It&amp;#039;s sad in many ways because we&amp;#039;re talking about so many negative topics, but in certain ways it&amp;#039;s beautiful. It&amp;#039;s beautiful.&amp;quot; Whet Moser, an editor at Chicago magazine, pointed out the bizarre literary quality of Trump&amp;#039;s parting words:       going to plagiarize the end of donald trump&amp;#039;s iowa speech in a novel somedayhttps://t.co/yQYbElBKv6 pic.twitter.com/nGlCZANq4o \u2014 Whet Moser (@whet) November 13, 2015    So this is, apparently, Donald Trump on the ropes\u2014and yet he still leads or shares the lead in most polls. Imagine what it&amp;#039;s going to be like when his numbers really start to sink:\u00A0think\u00A0a Kamikaze pilot with a microphone and a stage. If you&amp;#039;re up for it, here&amp;#039;s the Iowa speech in its entirety:        "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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