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And during a meeting in early January with oil and gas executives that was supposed to be about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry, Trump apparently digressed yet again into talking about the ballroom.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026

The audience of 1,600-plus, all primed to cheer the speakers’ adversarial views, found less and less to react to as the panel digressed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2023

"I am not a Bravo executive, so I don’t think I can speak to this on," she digressed.

From Fox News • Oct. 14, 2021

Then he digressed, noting, “I know a lot about West Point…. Trust me, I’m like a smart person.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017

But let us return to the point we digressed from.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli