In every endeavor there is always room for improvement but to quibble now is not to advance the cause of the reelection of President Trump.
Posted on 02/27/2020 2:25:40 AM PST by EyesOfTX
If you missed President Trump’s press conference on the Coronavirus yesterday evening, you should take time to watch it. – The full stream of it can be found at this link: Full Trump Presser.
This was President Donald Trump at his best: Fully in command of the room and the facts, speaking in measured tones, obviously in charge of the situation. Other than some formal international ceremonies, it was with out doubt the most “presidential” event of his entire time in office.
He took every question from the enemies of the people assembled in the White House briefing room and provided measured and reasonable answers, even to those that were unreasonable or even idiotic, as several were. I mean, after all, he did call on April Ryan and that circus clown who writes for Playboy.
Even the jabs he took at Nancy Pelosi were measured in tone: He didn’t call her “Crazy Nancy” or question her sobriety – even though either or both would have been perfectly valid. Instead, he called her “incompetent,” which she clearly is, and truthfully stated that the depraved Speaker is working to politicize the Coronavirus situation.
The same was true of his reference to Chuck Schumer, who has behaved in an even more depraved fashion than Pelosi: The President engaged in no name-calling, no references to “Crying Chuck” or anything similar; just a truthful statement of regret about the Minority Leader’s efforts to endanger the American public for purely partisan reasons.
It was a brilliant press conference, one that had me wishing he would do more of these and fewer of the noisy press availabilities next to the whining rotors as he’s about to board Marine One. I fully get why he likes that model: It denies the preening peacocks in the corrupt press corps their cherished TV face time. In those events, the camera is always on Trump, never on the nitwits screaming their moronic questions.
The President is of course right to treat the media with scorn – it is what they have all richly earned in their demented behavior towards him and his administration. He was absolutely right to end the daily press briefings, given the abusive behavior by the reporters towards his own staff. He
Mr. Trump was also right to take the responsibility of dealing with the media on his own shoulders: This administration revolves around him and his thought processes, and he obviously wasn’t always able to communicate those thoughts to those speaking on his behalf. So he cut out the middle-man, and now typically does more than one press availability each day.
But part of the problem with those loud events next to Marine One is that the President always finds himself shouting. This creates a problem where tone is concerned. As he left the briefing yesterday, one reporter shouted that he should do more events in the briefing room. That caught the President’s attention, and he promised that he would do so.
That would probably be a good idea, because the President is powerful in that setting. Don’t abandon the helicopter setting altogether, but provide more of a mix of venues.
In this re-election season, it might be wise for the President and his team to give a nod to one of the main reasons why he has lost so many suburban housewives: It’s mainly due to his behavior and his tone, not necessarily his substance. Young mothers and grandmothers don’t want young children to be exposed to a President who always seems to be shouting, whether at the press corps at a loud and windy event, or in his postings on Twitter, where he also often seems to be figuratively shouting.
Those who contend that Trump should stop tweeting entirely miss the entire point here: It’s not the fact that he uses social media, but the manner in which he uses it that turns off many people who might otherwise be supporters. A significant percentage of these suburban women who have been trending Democrat over the past four years actually agree with most of the Trump agenda, but can’t stand the manner in which he communicates it much of the time. Appealing to this constituency and gaining more of their votes this year could well determine which party controls the House of Representatives after this year.
Communication matters. No one understands this better than Donald Trump.
The President has to stay active on Twitter because it provides him his only platform on which to communicate to the public without interference from the enemies of the people. Most of these women no doubt recognize that reality, and also most likely wouldn’t deny him the right to respond in-kind to the abusive behavior towards him by depraved Democrats like Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff.
Where he turns so many people off is when he resorts to seemingly gratuitous name-calling, and when he goes after ordinary people, as he did recently with the jury foreman in the Roger Stone trial. Yes, that woman most definitely lied on her jury questionnaire, and Stone should receive a new trial with a new judge as a result. But Roger Stone has smart lawyers working for him and doesn’t need the President attacking both the jury foreman and the judge in order to make his case. It’s just a needless fight that Mr. Trump would have been better off not picking.
Bottom line, if the public saw the President Trump we witnessed in that Coronavirus briefing yesterday evening every day between now and November 3, he would win in an epic landslide for the ages. After the last three years of constant controversy and upheaval, the public is craving a return to some level of normalcy.
Knowing that Bernie Sanders won’t and can’t give them that, and that the Democrats and their corrupt media toadies will do everything in their power to keep the chaos coming, it would probably be wise for the President himself to give it to them in spades.
That is all.
We need more of these ‘Fire Side Chats’ during these periods of uncertainty. imo
I thought he started off a little unfocused , but once the questions started he was like white on rice. He really had the press eating out of his hand.
Always ‘damning with faint praise’.......
.....can’t help themselves
‘ if only the President would do this....or that’
His composure was outstanding considering he just flew 16 thousand miles round trip in two days!
Give the guy absolute praise without resorting to your endless ‘if onlys’
This President amazes and astounds me every day!
His stamina has to be God given......there is no other explanation!
He IS the adult in the room!
He looked tired, but I would be in deep recovery mode after a whirlwind trip to India and back. Then Chuckie & Nasty nipping at him and politizing the virus first thing back. He never really gets to savor his victories.
We need the Dems to lose bigly this Novevender and in 2022.
I guess the suburban housewives and grandmother’s love the way pelosi,Schumer and Shiff treat the President.
This, in micro, is why the 19th amendment was a mistake of fatal proportions. Women in the aggregate are not first concerned with the nation or free markets or liberty, They are focused on security for themselves and their children and on making people be nice. My wife pointed this out to me years ago. She never thought that way politically but she would talk about being appalled at the political observations and desires of her acquaintances and colleagues(she is a retired teacher) and came to the conclusion that that is the way the nation was going because women outvote men.
And President Biden would have Far Side Chats.
LOL!
Good points. In a sense, the rage-Tweet has served its purpose - which was to call attention and not have to pass things through the press filter - but maybe people are looking for more substance now, not only because of the virus but because of the threat of socialism and the resulting disruption and collapse. They’re nervous.
I don’t think it’s so much the anger that upsets the soccer moms as the feeling that perhaps he’s not really in control. I think he had a lot of trouble asserting control because the Dems launched their coup right away, and because half of his staff seemed to be in collusion with them. But his survival of these attacks and his growing knowledge of the how politics work have really solidified him....and reduced his enemies to childish rage (stunts such as Nancy’s ripping up the SOTU speech). Being calm and mature reveals how nutty they have been and still are.
Bernie, btw, is fond of giving Hitleresque , swollen-veins, red-faced rage-speeches. The contrast with a serious but witty and good natured, adult Trump is huge. That doesn’t mean Trump has to lose his personal style, because even the soccer moms appreciate somebody who says what he means and means what he says, and that’s the feeling you get about Trump.
That said, I loved the way he completely undercut Schumer’s grandstanding on the funding by cheerfully thanking them for it!
Trump did say Crying Chuck Schumer for the record.
DB, it looks as though President Trump has the ability to:
1. Look very somber and erudite and competent and hold “the room” with all the charm and command that he naturally has.
AND
2. Hold an entertaining and informative rally to the delight of thousands of people.
I say:
LEAVE HIM ALONE. HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. STOP EXAMINING EVERY APPEARANCE AND WORD THAT IS UTTERED.
We are into three years of President Trump.
BORROW THE MARINE PHRASE AND ADJUST.
And cartoon steam coming from Pelosi’s ears.
Once again we can honestly say the rats are just that, rats. If this were to happened while Obama was president Im sure the survival rate of a real pandemic in the US because of their ineptness and the despicable evil thoughts of control would be selective on who would get the best treatment for survival and who would be left to die, scum all of them!
This is exactly what convinces me that the President draws his energy from a Divine source. A 35 year old would have collapsed long ago from what President Trump has endured. Yet, our President doesn’t get older; he becomes more galvanized instead.
America, at her core, is a good country. She is built on freedom for all; that is the most beautiful foundation there is.
Thus, the Good Guys are finally pulling ahead. Bigly.
I was impressed when Trump taped Pence to get into the mix last night. Its highlights Pence as a capable Ticket ASSET for 2020.
That and this;
Presidential Message on Ash Wednesday, 2020
whitehouse.gov ^ | February 26, 2020 | President Donald Trump
Posted on 2/26/2020, 2:02:11 PM by ransomnote
Melania and I wish everyone observing Ash Wednesday a peaceful and prayerful day.
For Catholics and many other Christians, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season that concludes with the joyful celebration of Easter Sunday. Today, millions of Christians will be marked on their foreheads with the sign of the cross. The imposition of ashes is an invitation to spend time during Lent fasting, praying, and engaging in acts of charity. This powerful and sacred tradition reminds us of our shared mortality, Christ’s saving love, and the need to repent and accept the Gospel more fully.
We join in prayer with everyone observing this holy day and wish you a prayerful Lenten journey. May you grow closer to God in your faith during this blessed season.
I liked that the camera stayed pointed toward President Trump and the front of the room, rather than toward the crooks in the media. When they are on camera they like to grandstand and debate, rather than ask questions.
In every endeavor there is always room for improvement but to quibble now is not to advance the cause of the reelection of President Trump.
Thanks. It’s refreshing to read positive posts on this site regarding progress in handling the Coronavirus infection.
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