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Can you imagine if that speech tonight were delivered --- with the same robot phrasing and tone, and the same ad libs, the same wierd pronunciations (Mooozlim), the same tortured squinting to read awkwardly from the teleprompter, the same insults aimed at former political opponents, and the same taunting of terrorists, the same ridiculous focus on immigrant crime, the same lack of concrete proposals --- by Barack Obama, GW Bush, Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan? It would be viciously panned.
CeCe Baker
No, he'll NEVER sound "presidential." He's too much of an idiot. He may have "scored some points," but give him a day or two, he'll lose even more due to his insane behavior. #SoDumbHesDangerous #NEVERMyPresident #IMPEACHTrumpNOWForTREASON
David Thomas
If he spoke like this during the campaign, he would never have won the GOP primaries to begin with.
Laurie Craw
That IS the truth! He'd be just another "lyin' politician." He trash-talked and bullied his way to the nomination and the people LOVED it! I'm sure we'll see that bully version back again.
Howard Smith
Giving the devil his due, and while still disagreeing with his policy proposals, it was, by far, his best public address as president. However, I suspect he will return to form. Regarding what he said, his intention to push legislation that promotes a school choice initiative and a voucher program was alarming. But, that is also true with so many other soon to be pushed right wing policies through congress.
Laurie Craw
I just love how Reps think we always need SO many choices (health plans, schools) when all we really need is one that works and we can afford.
Katie S. Kimbrough
I didn't watch it. Too dangerous to watch.
Sam Burnham
To be honest, that bar has been low for a while. If you objectively look at the strength of language, charisma, and all the technical speaking tools, we haven't had a true orator, a real public speaker, in that office since Bill Clinton. I don't care much for him but that man could forevermore give a speech.
Terrell Shaw
GW was no orator but I'd put Obama among the greats ... and he wrote a lot himself. Clinton is great at putting the complex in simple terms especially extemporaneously. But to me Obama's speeches were greater.
Sam Burnham
I'm talking on prompter or off. Clinton & Reagan could do both. GW just wasn't a speaker. And Obama had difficulty speaking off prompter, he was better at that than Trump, but so are all my kids.
Terrell Shaw
I NEVER saw Obama uncomfortable off-prompter!
Sam Burnham
Uh-uh-um-um-um, I did.
Terrell Shaw
Amazing.
I consider Obama the most articulate president of my lifetime. Clinton next --- graded down slightly for being more overtly political. JFK, and Reagan were also great communicators, and Truman, Ike, LBJ, and Carter also gave some individually outstanding speeches. Even W. managed one outstanding bullhorn speech. But for consistently powerful speeches and thoughtful extemporaneous listening/speaking, Obama is hard to match.
Trump is in a category by himself somewhere below William Henry Harrison and Hulk Hogan.
One man's opinion.
Luis Schnitzer Da Silva
Two men
Howard Smith
And, on another issue regarding Trump's credibility. He originally hurried his failed immigration ban because he said if he had announced it terrorists would rush in before it could be implemented. Last night, after he went back to the White House, he decided to delay announcing his new and revised ban today because he wanted to bask in the glow of how well his speech to congress was received...SO, either the immigration ban isn't as much of a security issue as he originally claimed or our security isn't as important as stroking his ego....or both.
Laurie Craw
Very perceptive
I see the stock market loved the speech. And why not? Let the big dogs eat! But don't be tempted to give them your retirement nest egg because they are egg-sucking dogs lol).
David Thomas
"So while political pundits opined about the relative effectiveness of it all, an expert in evaluating presentation found the evening "a total clunker" from the entertainment perspective. He didn't insult anybody or blatantly lie, so he was praised for a by and large wooden effort." USNews & World Report
Bill Barker
Oh thought it was a great speech.
Terrell Shaw
"great"?
Think of great presidential speeches:
Washington's "Farewell", Lincoln's "Gettysburg", FDR's "Nothing But Fear Itself", Ike's "Military Industrial Complex", JFK's "Ask Not", LBJ's "We Shall Overcome", Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall", Obama's "Amazing Grace" or "Not Red or Blue But United"
Now read or listen to Trump's wooden, lifeless, petty speech. "Great"? I don't think so.
Suanne Bierman Laqueur I wanted to vomit seeing him stand at that podium in that place. I wake up in the morning thinking, "I now live in a world where Donald Trump is picking Supreme Court justices," and it's a chore to keep from screaming.
Jim Geist Best ever speech....believe me.
Bill Barker Your comments are the reason you're so successful in the Big Fibbers group.
Terrell Shaw As a nuanced award-winning liar, Bill, I am appalled at the blatant childish nature of Mr. Trump's continuous prevarication.
Claudia Kennedy
There you go again, using those big words, Terrell....
Luis Schnitzer Da Silva
You forgot Lincolns second Inaugural:
With malice towards none, ...
He was thinking of trumpy....
Gretchen Dodson
Former high school speech coach here :
That's an official opinion.
David Matheny
When Trump talked about "Lighting the World Up," that made the hairs on my neck stand up.
Nancy Woods
No. I thought the speech was uplifting. I was ashamed of the democratic section they never once agreed until the wife of the navy seal whose life was lost. He is doing what he said he would do and I agree with everything he is doing. Go Trump!!!
Laurie Craw
Not so. I saw them applaud or stand for several of his statements. However, none of them yelled out "You lie!" to this lying president like a Republican did to President Obama. I am proud of Democrats, not ashamed, for standing for the principles I uphold. As for the war widow, I thought it was crass of the President and Republicans to use her husband's death and her grief to cover up his administration's poor planning and execution of the "disastrous" Yemen operation. The tribute itself was appropriate, but when the widow began to cry uncontrollably the president should have called the Congress to order and a let her sit down and compose herself off camera. Instead, she had to stand there with the world watching her heart breaking. What kind of man would put her through that?
David Matheny Laurie Craw -- and then Trump bragged that it was a record breaking applause line.
Luis Schnitzer Da Silva Agreeing with everything he's doing is sad enough. Exploiting the situation with the grieving woman is shameful. The Seal's father would never have stood there with trump...
Nancy Woods
Well you can say what you want but he is doing his campaign promises. That in itself is enough for me.
Terrell Shaw
Crooked election. Incompetent transition. Scandal-plagued first month. #POTUS
Tracy S Lawler I am genuinely curious to know which campaign promises he has allegedly delivered successfully - the only one which comes to mind was taking the US outo f the TPP. Most of everything else he spouted to get elected, he did an about face on.
Luis Schnitzer Da Silva Well he has been very successful at raping the environment. He said he'd do it and by golly he has been raping ever since.
Nancy Woods
Give it a rest! We as Americans need to work together to join the country. If everyone would remember the states that elected the President then you would realize that is was the working class who I still as being the forgotten. They and I supported Trump as we as a whole believed he could make a difference. Sit back and remember the states he carried. Where were you then?
Terrell Shaw
YOU give it a rest, Nancy. I'll give my patriotism a rest at Daniel's Funeral Home one of these days but not till then. If you want to support the boor in the White House go right ahead, you have that right. But I also have my rights. Do NOT come on MY page and tell ME to 'give it a rest', 'get a grip' or wharever other synonym of 'shut up' you want to hurl. I suspect your mother taught you better.
Michael Moody
ALMOST presidential... but not.
Luis Schnitzer Da Silva
Almost? If Presidential on a scale is 100 (I'm talking minimum presidential, a la W, Lincoln being in the thousands), then the orange menace is :.00000000000000000000000076.
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