tribeca_belle
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Trump doesn't even try to be a good speaker. Worse than that however he just stands there and lies and makes up nonsense. He does that while praising himself and attacking entities he doesn't like with gross exaggerations and simpleminded hyperbole.
Socrates
Some things are just what they are. There are no clear cut answers for them. On the other hand Ronald Reagan was known a the "Great Communicator". He was radio broadcaster, a public speaker, governor and of course, president. He paid attention to the process of communicating, thus became good at it.
Trump doesn't seem to care about this except in one aspect, he cares about using sincere common language to relate to the public in general. In this he has succeeded.
The Taxpayer
No one elected him because he was a slick talker. As a nation, we had enough of that.
u_bin_called
he's not a professional politician... the core reason he got elected in the first place?
think that's shallow and wrong? well if you look back, all but two men who've held the Presidency since Nixon have postured themselves as "outsiders" who were "different than" their predecessors...
Carter was the humble country boy... different from all the "stuffy suits" of the Watergate Era..
Reagan was the straight talking favorite uncle...different from the "doom & gloom" politicians of the '70s...
Clinton was the smooth-talking boomer... different from the "dinosaur" politicians of the WW2 generation..
Bush 2.0 was the frat-boy boomer... different from the sensitive, "I feel your pain" "educated hippie" boomers...
Obama was the fresh new face... different from everyone that came before him..
Each new generation defines its choices in many ways by what it rejects in the previous one... Like it or not, many feel that all the past Presidents (including Obama) failed to deliver on their promises and aren't interested in their "pretty speeches" anymore...
...don't just look at Trump... look at the new generation of Democrats and what they're rejecting in their own party....
Anonymous
He is way better than stumbling, stuttering Obama. But so far, democrats complain about everything.