Posted on 09/16/2015 7:32:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald J. Trump, once a great improviser, has started relying on prepared notes when he gives speeches.
While he once rushed to leave the stage after finishing his remarks, he now lingers and works the rope line, shaking hands for several minutes.
For months, he could not resist answering any question lobbed at him by reporters. Now, there is more self-restraint, at least by Mr. Trump’s standards.
Something unmistakable has happened to Mr. Trump since he announced his campaign for president in June: He has become a better candidate.
Whether his newly found discipline will shape his debate appearance Wednesday night remains to be seen. His aides have done little to forecast his approach, although, in a marked departure from the lead-up to the Fox News debate last month, Mr. Trump has been diligently preparing for several days.
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After noticing that Trump did not deliver his national security speech last night as promised, I began to wonder if he decided to insert the details into the debate tonight as a way of throwing everyone else off their game.
Now that he has your attention...
Superb photo by Max Whittaker at the link. That image has everything included for depecting the setting and moment. Photojournalism at its best.
A fair Times piece about Trump? Have the publishers realized that a business-savvy President might energize the economy to the extent that even the Times might make a profit?
Naw ...
“Mr. Trump has been diligently preparing for several days.”
O’Reilly asked him last night if he preps for the debate. He did not say yes or no, just said he has been prepping for the last 30 years, and whatever happens, happens.
Like him or hate him, Trump keeps leading the media wankers around by their noses.
ping
What I hope Trump stops doing is announcing stuff like that ahead of time. It takes away from the Thunder. And maybe avoid those large-venue rallies where the antis can to easily get tickets and create situations. JMHO.
Where was this ever promised to be a big national security speech? He said last night that he’d be releasing his plan for the military in a few weeks.
Septum piercing are popular these days. LOL
Notice that positioning is never attributed to the Trump campaign. He accepted an invitation to speak at a veterans charity’s two-day event that they billed “Making America’s Military Great Again”—but neither they nor Trump’s camp billed his speech as a great national security address.
Another media gotcha—don’t fall for it.
Here’s the earliest reference I could find, and note how it says that Trump hasn’t billed it as such:
“I was so angry,” he said, proceeding with a modified riff for the Texas crowd: “The American dream, it’s going to be better.”
I believe he said that “it’s going to be better” part had been cut out by the news producer. Jimmy Fallons’ show did it first.
That was the reason for choosing the USS Iowa as a venue.
Didn’t know that about Fallon. And you may have the more precise quote.
But the point’s the same, the NYTimes has tried to pass it off as if Trump was only saying the first part earlier in the campaign—but is now appending the second part.
Trump didn’t announce it—the press drew their own conclusions and then blew it up in an attempted gotcha.
I must agree. You even see the ship in the background; and his athletic pose is natural.
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