Posted on 08/17/2016 8:31:48 AM PDT by RetSignman
How many times has 0 been ridiculed for using a teleprompter in his speeches. The answer is probable in the range of thousands of times but he is very, very good at fakery as are the ALL the media anchors. They are professional, often misleading, readers.
IMO, Trump was on fire and awesome regardless of how he did it.
Go Trump
Make America Great Again and Defeat All Liberals
To me it shows the meticulous purpose of getting important policy matters across succinctly. What else would anyone expect? A blubbering Obama?
I agree. I put the ‘red line’ date for major gaffes at when the Olympics end and school starts back up. All past gaffes will be mostly forgotten, but can’t have any new ones at this point.
I agree with the use of the teleprompter when delivering the details of a specific plan. That is what happened last night and the day before. IOW, it is necessary to hit all the points and accurately deliver the information.
Beyond those type of events, Trump will be his free-wheeling self.
If I were to deliver a written policy, I would provide a formal, final completed version.
I wouldn’t deliver a hand written initial draft on notebook paper.
You are wrong. He is very good at it and getting better.
His last two policy speeches have used teleprompter and have been excellent at keeping him focused, describes the problem, gives solutions and looks presidential. Since starting this his poll numbers have been going up. This will win him the election.
You need to concentrate on the content of his message. His message is on point and will be a home run to the American people. Don’t get caught up in the delivery. He does not need to be yelling at the top of his voice all the time like a rally. This shows a the disciplined side of him to the people.
Folks, I think I’d leave it to Trump...He isn’t a dummy...He didn’t get to where he is in business AND this campaign by being stupid...
I think Trump knows full well what he is doing....
Yes Virginia, stupid questions do exist.
I think that all his primary campaign speeches and rallies were delivered extemporaneously. All that time attracting larger and larger crowds. He's had many press conferences.
I didn't see the interview but how could someone possibly posit that Trump needs the teleprompter in a debate.
GEESH!
[Trump was specifically targeted for his extemporaneous ability and everybody and his damn brother in media said “we want substance, clear message and the meaning of life and everything.” Trump gives it to them, yet some “concern ninnies” still aren’t satisfied.]
[Why do you think the media anchors and people as Carl Rove have stated that NOW Trump is doing the right thing when using teleprompters to ‘stay on point and stay focused’? Well, it’s not to give him kudos and a big congratulatory slap on the back but that they are, behind his back, smirking at him for being clueless of their agenda.] (excerpt)
I can just see Rove jumping up with his little white board and applauding your snarky post. Clearly, you and others have went back to calling him a ‘magnificent bastard’.
I have nothing in connection with Karl Rove or you misplaced attribution of a Rove excerpt to me (you are transfixing wildly, frankly). I have my own mind and thoughts and none of them involve Rove. I haven’t given that fat bastard a minute’s thought in months.
What I said wasn’t ‘snark’. It was a repudiation of your “concern ninny” post. Deal with it.
[What is important is what the speech ‘is’.]
I agree fully and his recent speeches have been outstanding. I’ve seen him previously use a another approach to keep on point.
He has his prepared talking points on paper at the podium, he states them, as written, then turns to the camera and strongly backs them up with the same vigor and confidence of which brings standing O’s and applause.
I agree, but they do have them spaced too far apart. You can see when he reads ahead and then speaks the words as he has already turned to the next screen...
He knows what he is doing but sometimes his staff fails him!
Not opening or short hours or other delays in his local HQ are the fault of His staff allowing the old NEVER TRUMP Republicans to do it to him!
Trump should decide what his main goal is, then use the type of speech that best achieves that goal,
Would you feel better if he read his prepared speech from a piece of paper on the podium in front of him? Didn’t think so.
The only difference is the teleprompter lets him look up instead of down. For a major speech, I have no problem with it. And I doubt we will ever see a teleprompter set up so Donald can talk to a second-grade class. (Anyone else remember that?)
Trump has been criticized for making gaffes by talking off the cuff, and now he is being criticized for using a teleprompter to avoid such gaffes.
You can’t please everybody. /facepalm
[Admittedly, he is not used to this new tether, but he is getting the hang of it.]
One might think that with the many Republicans he has on hand for advice would step forward to help with how to deliver speeches as if there were no teleprompters present ie: Gingrich
Exactly.
I would agree that he’s not very good at reading from a teleprompter yet. Most of his speeches, at his rallies which are coming more than one a day at this point, are still classic, “unprompted” Trump. He’s a master at that, just absolutely commands the room and the crowd. He reads prepared speeches from a teleprompter when he’s introducing new policy-based material. In those instances, it’s not the delivery but the message itself that is far more important, and so the teleprompter is appropriate. The speechwriters that he has, I think Jason Miller is the main one, are excellent. Some of that material then ends up in his unprompted stump speech, so it’s fine.
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