Didn't watch the whole thing because I couldn't look at the hateful faces of the Dims anymore. Have read that even some Dims and some MSM gave him kudos for a great speech.
I realize he thinks he won by his Tweets while by-passing the MSM. Just wish he would temper them a little. He's got the juice to obviously get things done, but he should listen to his advisors a little more regarding his rhetoric, which could win over some undecideds. But then he beat out Hillary, so who am I to give advice? Ha.
I got a kick out of watching them. They looked like spoiled children.
It was priceless to see the large Black contingent sitting on their hands and glaring as Trump mentioned the lowest unemployment rates for Blacks and Hispanics since record keeping began. Obama accomplished nothing like that.
70% of CNN's audience liked the speech. Now that's saying something. It is true that more Republicans watched, so we do have to take some of that luster off. Still...
I realize he thinks he won by his Tweets while by-passing the MSM. Just wish he would temper them a little. He's got the juice to obviously get things done, but he should listen to his advisors a little more regarding his rhetoric, which could win over some undecideds. But then he beat out Hillary, so who am I to give advice? Ha.
When I review things like this, I have to check myself. I do try to put a favorable spin on things for Trump (an us) when it makes sense, but I also want to try to be objective.
When it comes to his tweets, I think there is a method to his madness. He tweets out a rant, and then does something else good while they are focused on his rants.
This week he had the Nunez memo to focus the media's attention on. During the midst of it, ICE demanded work records from 77 businesses in the San Francisco area. You hardly heard a peep about it in the press.
Rush trotted out this explanation in the way of strategy, and I think he's probably got a good point.
These people haven't had someone fight back or confront them for decades. They don't know how to handle it. I think his tweets confound them. They expect the public to defend them, and the public is off focused on something else.
I don't care if he dances in public nude, if he gets our agenda passed. Okay, well,... that may be a bit too much LOL.
He really misleads them. They think they have a deal. Our guys like Graham do too. Even people here start insulting him. And then he makes it clear, he hasn't abandoned us.
In the last day or so he addressed the retreat, and said that his negotiations with the Democrats over DADA were smoke and mirrors, and he's still in our camp.
He's playing hardball dirty politics with them, and it's the first time I've seen it done from our side, at least like this.
I'm going to be very patient with him.
>> Just wish he would temper them a little. He’s got the juice to obviously get things done, but he should listen to his advisors a little more regarding his rhetoric, which could win over some undecideds. But then he beat out Hillary, so who am I to give advice? Ha.<<
I frequently hear comments by those who wish he would stop with the tweets and modify his rhetoric, but my fervent hope is that he continues to ignore such criticisms, because I don’t want him to get the thought in his head that he needs to be “groomed” and “coached” by ANYONE. Someone authored a book, just published, entitled “Let Trump Be Trump”. I think that’s great advice.