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The Trump Teleprompter (vanity/opinion)
Me | August 17, 2016 | retsignman

Posted on 08/17/2016 8:31:48 AM PDT by RetSignman

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To: RetSignman

“by whom when it is patently obvious he just isn’t good at it?”

I watched this speech and Trump seems to be getting better at it.It’s not an easy thing for someone who has not practiced it, like most politicians.

He needs to use a teleprompter to give serious policy speeches.


41 posted on 08/17/2016 9:46:22 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: RetSignman

Nitpick much, Ret?


42 posted on 08/17/2016 9:46:36 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: MaxistheBest

[I watched this speech and Trump seems to be getting better at it.]

I agree and I think that the stage mangers might be WHERE they position of the teleprompters.

At times, Trump has to turn his whole body when he reads them, afer all, everyone knows he’s using them, why not put them where he can fluidly move from the right, face the camera then left.

I don’t have a problem with him using them for important policies speeches but it should be done seamlessly.


43 posted on 08/17/2016 10:01:34 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: RetSignman

the difference is that the man child, the ward of Valerie Jarrett, used the teleprompter ALL THE TIME. For even the simplest of tasks, for remarks that others delivered “off the cuff” or with simplicity...he needs a teleprompter. He is an empty suit, told what to say on every occasion.

I will never forget seeing him with a teleprompter talking to a group of elementary children.

Using the teleprompter isn’t a bad thing—using it for every occasion, however, shows an extreme lack of intellect.

Big difference.

This is what irritates me when people attack Trump for having stuff made overseas. Manufacturing stuff overseas isn’t bad per se...letting other countries take total advantage of us in the process is a bad move. Trump understands that truth....the finger pointers do not.


44 posted on 08/17/2016 10:11:14 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: RetSignman

The reason Obama has been mocked about the teleprompter is that he tends to use it everywhere, including a small appearance at a grade school.

Obama was using it in press conferences too, not just for opening remarks. There were big TV screen style prompters in back of the reporters, feeding Obama answers to questions.

For big speeches, of course they are prepared and read either from a prompter or paper. The speeches are usually the collaboration of many writers and advisors. Nothing wrong with that.


45 posted on 08/17/2016 10:14:19 AM PDT by sockhead
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To: RetSignman

When Zer0 reads the teleprompters, it’s like he’s watching a tennis match ... boing, boing, boing ... head goes back and forth ...


46 posted on 08/17/2016 10:19:49 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: sportutegrl
But somebody has to hack the teleprompter.

From the beginning, I have wanted to insert lines of Alice in Wonderland nonsense poetry into his teleprompter speeches. He'd never notice. It would be hilarious.

47 posted on 08/17/2016 10:21:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: RetSignman

Have you ever watched the Brits, the prime minister or the Queen, give a speech? They pretty much have their noses buried in the paper from which they are reading.

Trump is a little wooden reading his prepared speeches, and his cadence and inflection to drive home points could be improved, but there is nothing terribly concerning about his delivery.


48 posted on 08/17/2016 10:25:24 AM PDT by sockhead
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To: 3D-JOY

[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...]

That was my re-thinking too after I criticized his use of them at all.

[I agree and I think that the stage mangers might be WHERE they position of the teleprompters.

At times, Trump has to turn his whole body when he reads them, after all, everyone knows he’s using them, why not put them where he can fluidly move from the right, face the camera then left.]

The forces against him are coming from all sides, even in his own camp.


49 posted on 08/17/2016 11:06:49 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: RetSignman

I am so glad you see it as I do...now how do we take action on telling his staff?

I have had no success in making suggestions or getting any replies above the local staff. They are being fought every step of the way by the local “Know-it-alls”!


50 posted on 08/17/2016 11:28:13 AM PDT by 3D-JOY (Monthly donors needed...! Will YOU be next?)
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To: 3D-JOY

[...now how do we take action on telling his staff?]

I don’t know exactly but I’m going to try twitter at the Trump site and plant the seed.


51 posted on 08/17/2016 12:05:00 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: sparklite2

I agree to an extent. I think he should do more prompter policy speeches, but for his rallies, I don’t think he will. The crowd loves his off the cuff style, and Trump prefers it that way. I will say what I’ve said on here before. I say this because the media is looking for anything, a sentence fragment, to pin on Trump. He should do three things with his team before the day’s rallies:

1. Write down the big media lies you want to respond to.
2. Write down all the latest attacks on Hillary.
3. Write down which policies you want to discuss and have stats and recent news articles to back them up.

That gives a framework but isn’t a written down speech and ensures that there aren’t things the media can use against him.


52 posted on 08/17/2016 12:42:22 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: stars & stripes forever; All
No, you can tell he's reading. The intonations and pauses are unnatural. Regardless, the reason for the use of the TelePrompTer is to keep Trump from wondering and never returning back to the point he was discussing 5 minutes prior.

Trump thinks so fast, unfortunately, he gets side-tracked and sometimes fails to make his point. He's getting better now using the TelePrompTer.

53 posted on 08/17/2016 1:14:53 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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It’s too close to election time for any more major off-the-cuff gaffes. The teleprompter’s time has come.

Correct.

54 posted on 08/17/2016 1:16:11 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Gaffer

The press doesn’t shiv-a-git about substance. They play up contrived innuendo and run it 24/7 on tv. This is the crap that LIVs hear and think Trump is a whacko.


55 posted on 08/17/2016 1:19:35 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

And this is the crux of the problem with us. The traditional media and the pundits and the connected pollsters don’t matter a damned bit any more. Do any of them affect how you will vote?

If the answer is no, count yourself among the millions and millions of pissed off tax paying working Americans who won’t put up with this bullsh!t anymore.

The time for despondency and fatalism is over, FRiend. We (you and many, many others) want blood in the water.


56 posted on 08/17/2016 1:23:41 PM PDT by Gaffer (fg)
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To: RetSignman

Some people read scripts flawlessly; others do better with an general outline and a few hard-to-remember facts and figures. But going without a visual all the time all but guarantees mistakes or omissions at some point.


57 posted on 08/17/2016 1:50:51 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

[But going without a visual all the time all but guarantees mistakes...]

I agree but I hope he has the script of his speeches handy at the podium and follows along by flipping page by page to keep in sync with the teleprompter just in case it fails.


58 posted on 08/17/2016 2:37:31 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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