Trump Speech
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On the plus side… Whistle Pig…
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Mik said in Trump Speech:
This speech is pretty lackluster.
Yep, he's treating it more like a campaign rally. With the right speech, he could have clinched this election.
This is not the right speech...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Mik said in Trump Speech:
@LuFins-Dad said in Trump Speech:
On the plus side… Whistle Pig…
Ceegar?
No, just the swine… And the whiskey, too.
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@Mik said in Trump Speech:
This speech is pretty lackluster.
Yep, he's treating it more like a campaign rally. With the right speech, he could have clinched this election.
This is not the right speech...
@Jolly said in Trump Speech:
@Mik said in Trump Speech:
This speech is pretty lackluster.
Yep, he's treating it more like a campaign rally. With the right speech, he could have clinched this election.
This is not the right speech...
No. It wasn’t even a speech and looked like he put no effort whatsoever into it.
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@Jolly said in Trump Speech:
@Mik said in Trump Speech:
This speech is pretty lackluster.
Yep, he's treating it more like a campaign rally. With the right speech, he could have clinched this election.
This is not the right speech...
No. It wasn’t even a speech and looked like he put no effort whatsoever into it.
@Mik said in Trump Speech:
@Jolly said in Trump Speech:
@Mik said in Trump Speech:
This speech is pretty lackluster.
Yep, he's treating it more like a campaign rally. With the right speech, he could have clinched this election.
This is not the right speech...
No. It wasn’t even a speech and looked like he put no effort whatsoever into it.
I disagree in part. The early part of the speech was fairly scripted and effective, as he was talking about the assassination attempt and being President of all Americans. Then, he got off script, off the rails in an adlib campaign -type talk, trying to tone down the personal attack stuff, but wandering through the issues while calling out people in the crowd and interjecting little personal thank-yous. I know he was trying to hammer certain themes such as illegal immigration, but he would work on one subject, move to another and then circle back. At the very end of the speech he finally focused back in and humbly asked for the votes of all Americans.
He could have done better and said what he needed to say in 30-40 minutes.
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A guy like Trump is going to have one style when he’s talking to a bunch of fans and should have another when he’s trying to reach a broader audience. While this should have been the latter, I suspect he was driven by habit and by the people in the room to shift into the former. From the reporting I saw it sounded like he started off with a speech and went into Trump Rally mode after a half hour or so.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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A guy like Trump is going to have one style when he’s talking to a bunch of fans and should have another when he’s trying to reach a broader audience. While this should have been the latter, I suspect he was driven by habit and by the people in the room to shift into the former. From the reporting I saw it sounded like he started off with a speech and went into Trump Rally mode after a half hour or so.
@jon-nyc said in Trump Speech:
A guy like Trump is going to have one style when he’s talking to a bunch of fans and should have another when he’s trying to reach a broader audience. While this should have been the latter, I suspect he was driven by habit and by the people in the room to shift into the former. From the reporting I saw it sounded like he started off with a speech and went into Trump Rally mode after a half hour or so.
Maybe he just loves the sound of his own voice. He rambles on about all kinds of bullshit as though everybody should be riveted by his thoughts on any number of topics. He reminds me of me after I've had a certain quantity of alcohol. Obviously, my wife tells me to STFU and does everybody a favour. He doesn't have anybody like that, presumably.
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The thing is he's not a good speaker, although I'm sure he thinks he is. It was a droning, unoriginal, lazy waste of time. He said nothing surprising or revelatory or even seriously emotional about the shooting and offered up nothing we haven't heard before about platform.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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The thing is he's not a good speaker, although I'm sure he thinks he is. It was a droning, unoriginal, lazy waste of time. He said nothing surprising or revelatory or even seriously emotional about the shooting and offered up nothing we haven't heard before about platform.
@Mik said in Trump Speech:
The thing is he's not a good speaker, although I'm sure he thinks he is.
Nobody knows more about speaking than he does.
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A guy like Trump is going to have one style when he’s talking to a bunch of fans and should have another when he’s trying to reach a broader audience. While this should have been the latter, I suspect he was driven by habit and by the people in the room to shift into the former. From the reporting I saw it sounded like he started off with a speech and went into Trump Rally mode after a half hour or so.
@jon-nyc said in Trump Speech:
A guy like Trump is going to have one style when he’s talking to a bunch of fans and should have another when he’s trying to reach a broader audience. While this should have been the latter, I suspect he was driven by habit and by the people in the room to shift into the former. From the reporting I saw it sounded like he started off with a speech and went into Trump Rally mode after a half hour or so.
He's in his 70's and does a lot of rallies. Habits are very hard to break at that age.
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A blogger comments on the length of the speech.
I noticed in his speech, he gets annoyed having to read other people's written lines, so after every line he reads from the teleprompter, he then offers asides and digressions to add his personal flava to it.
Like he read: "From Yorktown, to Antietam, to Midway, brave Americans have joined the roll call of immortal heroes."
And that's obviously not Trump's way of speaking.
Then he turns to the audience and freestyles it: "These heroes, these heroes. So many heroes, so many. We need to cherish them. We need to cherish these heroes. Did you ever notice that? No one says 'cherish these heroes' any longer, no one says that. We need to build statues. Beautiful statues. I love the flag."
Then he goes back to the script for a line.
That's why it was so long -- the script itself was about 45 minutes long, and then his asides were just as long.
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In both the debate and the convention, all he had to do to secure a win was to exercise a little discipline and act presidential. He couldn't do it.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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Yeah, but also the crowd in front of him was rally-like. I’ll bet if he was talking just to a camera he would have stayed more on script.
