Posted on 03/21/2016 4:47:44 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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Good speech. I'll just link to my comment on the thread where he flushed it down the toilet. The news cycle will be about his demand that Israel pay the US for it's defence, as though we defend Israel. Israel isn't Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait or Afghanistan. Too bad.
Thanks for the info, glad to hear he handled it well.
I only caught the last five minutes and never noticed the prompter. I did notice that his words were powerful, flowed smoothly, and he never missed a beat.
LOL, I’m with you on that!
Great speech, well-delivered and well-received. I’d love to know who wrote it. I hope Trump puts him/her/them on the payroll so we can expect more like it.
the nasty woman on CNN right after the speech on Blitzer said something to the effect that poor Trump has to use a teleprompter to give an address, and she started calling it the teletrumpter
I thought... this coming from an Obama person?
They are running out of ammo.
He didn’t make a Palestine error - stop saying he did. What he said was the UN would force a deal with Palestine - that they’d call it Palestine. It’s obvious unless you’re looking to foster the preposterous notion that you’re smarter than Trump.
I agree.
Don’t know who wrote it, but I bet Trump had a lot of input.
I didn’t watch all of the speeches, but is Trump the only one that looked like he may have used a teleprompter? Don’t the rest of them use teleprompters all the time? Not sure why a teleprompter used for an important speech is considered a negative. His delivery was spot on.
He was spectacular. Folks walking away from that event must have felt the man had already been elected. He is so assured and assuring. Not just a man of words but a man who takes action after studying the situation. The entirety of today belonged to D J Trump. He owned the day. From dawn till dusk and time beyond.
Go TRUMP!!
I was certain we were working with Israel on weaponry, armament, etc. And, we have supplied (and maybe still do) a certain missile counter-strike weapon .. which takes out the enemy missile while it’s still in the air.
Are we not doing that anymore ..??
I thought his delivery was great.
I didn’t see the other speakers, just flipped on the TV to get to about the middle of this one.
He used the prompter, but he was talking in his normal tone, which is great I thought. It didn’t sound rehearsed or read, he didn’t do the Harvard Law School cadence of speech.
I would almost reckon that he had talking points or bits of pieces on the prompter, just to help him hit all the boxes he intended to hit instead of a full script, but I’m just guessing.
I thought it was great.
The woman (forgot her name, she’s on CNN often enough bashing Trump) was just trying to get the word “teletrumpter” out there I think, because she said it like 4-5 times.
The Palestinians are an imaginary people. Prior to 1948, the only people that call themselves “Palestinians” were the Jews of what became Israel in 1948. If you look at the main newspaper there on the morning after Israel declared independence, it was the Palestinian Post, a Jewish newspaper, which announced it. Up until that time, all of the non-Jews living in and around what became Israel called themselves Arabs. They did not distinguish between Arabs from Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Palestine or Egypt. They were just Arabs, according to their own preference.
There NEVER was a country called Palestine. When the Romans put down the second Jewish Revolt in approximately 135, part of the punishment inflicted upon the Jews was the renaming of their country and their capitol. The Romans insultingly named that province (because at that point the Jews were denied any vestiges of independence) after the Philistines, Israel’s most famous biblical enemy. There was never any distinct people known as Palestinians, nor did such an imaginary people have a language or literature of any kind, quite unlike the Jews. The entire concept of a Palestinian people is a fiction created in the late 1940s and early 1950s to give some international credence to the idea of these Arabs having their own nation.
As an aside, no people or nation has ever claimed Jerusalem as its capitol, except for the Jews in both ancient and modern times. Moslem claims to Jerusalem as the “third holiest city in Islam” because of the presence of the Dome of the Rock originated in the 1920s. They originated do to extreme tensions between the Moslem and Jewish populations in what was then called Palestine at the time. The Moslem leadership understood that the Jews were trying to re-create their own nation, and they did this as a counterweight to Jewish claims to sovereignty. In point of fact, Jerusalem is not mentioned one single time in the Koran, and Mohammed purposely had his followers turn their back toward Jerusalem while praying, because of the Jews had rejected him as their savior. The Dome of the Rock itself, this supposedly holy place, was nearly in ruins in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a time during which the Moslem Ottoman Turkish Empire ruled the entire area. That shows how much the Moslems actually cared for the Dome of the Rock. The Dome of the Crock is a more accurate description of the place.
He's being compared to Lincoln now. I thought the comparisons to Washington were the top, guess not.
Who's next? Moses?
My comment is to Trumps poor campaign performance. He makes a fine speech, but on the same day does a 180 in 4 seconds of a 20 second soundbite. And the press will pick up on the nonsensical "Israel will pay for our defense" comment. Might not be fair, but it is politics, and he needs to learn to play. Not to win the Republican nomination, but the Presidency. Which comments like this will not help.
BTW, as to his “neutral” position, what about our military aid and training to the palestinians, stabbing Israelis daily.
Oh, you don’t know the code.
Amazing speech from Mr. Trump. I can just imagine the liberal heads exploding all across America, not just because he’s such a friend to Israel, but because he delivered a POWERFUL speech. Very Presidential, imho.
Very well stated.
It does seem that Trump’s education in the debate at the hands of the foreign policy master Ted Cruz have gone well.
Trump seems much reduced in his ignorance of the Middle East in this speech.
I hope he can keep it up.
Can’t believe they would criticize the use of the teleprompter considering Obama always has one.
Heck Obama even brought a teleprompter to speak to an elementary school class one time.
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