Grade Trump's Speech

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

B

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Am I the only one who thought this was one of Trump’s better speeches?  Obviously, it had both awful and rambling parts, but you’ll always have that with Trump.  He is terrible at trying to act reasonable or Presidential, you can tell how much he hates it and it’s just so clearly not him.  That was on full display last night.  However, he had one or two moments where he actually came across as remotely likable (specifically, the “don’t sit down yet, you’re really gonna like this” line when the congresswomen in white were applauding).  

Granted, such brief moments were few and far between, but the only other moment where Trump has had a remotely likable moment was when Huckabee said “I never took any money from you” during one of the debates and Trump replied “That’s because I never needed you for anything.  You’re not important enough,” or words to that effect.  Maybe it was Rand Paul rather than Huckabee, I forget.  

Trump is an exceptionally uncharismatic individual (like Gingerich in debates, he’s a mess whenever he’s not in front of a mindlessly cheering crowd of supporters) who oozes unlikabilty out of every pour whenever he does anything, so I’d argue Trump had a good night if he gave speech where he had two or three brief moments of actual likability before quickly reverting back to the loathsome, egomaniacal, scatter-brained, selfish, bigoted con-artist America has been suffering since Trump announced he was running for President.  That said, I am very much not the target audience for his schtick, so this post should probably be taken with a grain of salt.