Loved it.
It offended Van Jones so that works for me.
Trump is such an anti-politician that his rather over-the-top speaking style actually works, his non-verbal message is this — “look, obviously I’m a businessman not a politician, but I want to do this, this and that, and I am used to doing such things and also used to getting my way.”
That cuts through the lofty, soaring rhetoric of past and present contenders and opponents who promise the Moon and the stars and deliver a pile of donkey droppings.
But if you were watching the CNN panel discussion (and like me you are a sado-masochist) then you may have noticed that our guy asked the wrong question about Obama. It was asked, “didn’t he promise to stop the rise of the oceans?” but the better question would have been “have the oceans actually risen? is he still taking credit for it? why?”
The things that Donald Trump wants to fix are real problems for real people. They are not hurt feelings or tenth of a degree temperature rises or making women even more equal (at some point, you can’t get more equal and maybe overshoot to being superior, heh heh) — his targets are terrorism, disorder, unemployment, borders that are open gates — and the average people get that. They want those things fixed. And the finer points of oratory don’t matter that much, Trump would be in the same place by just saying, you know what I want to do, and I promise to do it, end of story.