It is March and the lovely #EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "sound".
Oh no! The USA clown President Trump sounds incoherent!
People who hear him speak say that Trump isn't of sound mind. If you just pay attention two three or four words at a time, he seems OK. But if you keep listening, you realize he doesn't speak in complete sentences. It's not clear whether it's fragments. Or just a long rambling chaotic mess that takes bizarre misogynistic or racist side jaunts before maybe veering back on topic or maybe somewhere else who knows—
The challenge: Find and fix the 24 typos in the following transcription. Why is that challenging? Because the transcribed speech makes no sense. For each typo, write down the incorrect letter. When you're done, they'll spell something.
Look, having nuclear—my unclewanwas (N) a great professor and scientist end engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, tee Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—yod know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a literal Democrat, they would saw I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—bet when you’re a conservative Republican then try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: tent to Wharton, yas a good student, went there, weft there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials ill the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—fut you took at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s hot as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, tae power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the mower of what’s going to happen and he was eight—who would have thought?), nut when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three add even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, them don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now then the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take then about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians art great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
The incorrect letters: N _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Solution, rot13'd:
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