Yet look at the headline on the Washington Post on line headline:
which gives the impression that it was an energetic speech.
I am very much on side with those media critics who are getting ropeable again that the mainstream press is not doing more caning of Trump for his abuse of his position, but are "two sides-ing" the parties again.
What have they got to lose by calling out a wannabe dictator as a wannabe dictator? He already tells his followers they are the "enemy of the people" - itself an extraordinary undemocratic and dangerous attitude that should never have been normalised by resigned acceptance of its repetition.
To be clear: the Washington Post routinely carries pages of strong Trump criticism, including of this speech. But it shouldn't be giving a false impression in its main headline choice.
Trump is campaigning like 2016 EXCEPT he has a record.
ReplyDeleteMy impression is he wants a small turnout where his base will come through.
He has always been a very poor orator
"Very poor orator" is an understatement.
ReplyDeleteAs someone on Twitter says, he delivers set speeches like he is just seeing the words for the first time as they appear.
But I don't get it about the teleprompters - I thought they could be set up so that at any speech it could be made to look like you were looking at your audience while you were actually reading. Yet both Donald's and Melania's speeches had them set up so that they were so obviously turning from side to side to read screens, and rarely making eye contact with the audience there or through the camera. I don't understand that - to me, it looked like very amateurish use of basic equipment.
Four years ago Trump was hitting all the right notes, saying all the things that had been made a taboo. But yes this time around, there is not much good that can be said about the campaign. Except that the Democrats are so much more useless. Competitively so. Had Trump been able to stay true to his 2016 vision without getting killed, imprisoned, or publicly shamed, he would now be able to speak in a sane and flexible way. But really he has been bent to the will of the oligarchy and he's not able to project a clear and credible message.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it will matter. The DNC are crazy and will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.