Posted on 03/25/2016 5:43:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Will Trump 2.0 ever show up?
Donald Trump, for all his theatrics, has repeatedly hinted that at some point he'd tone down the rhetoric and begin to act like a more traditional candidate. "Once you get to a certain level, it changes," he told Greta van Susteren last month about his speaking style and approach to campaigning. "I will be changing very rapidly."
On CBS News' "Face the Nation," he told host John Dickerson that President would be a "much different person" than candidate Trump.
We've seen glimpses of a more presidential -- or at least less purposefully off-putting -- Trump as recently as his scripted AIPAC speech earlier this week. We also saw it at the last Republican debate, where he mostly refrained from childish taunts.
We've seen this before, too, at various times this cycle, most notably as voting got underway for the first three contests, when he seemed to show some restraint. "Watch his latest interviews and you'll see someone becoming a better politician -- shifting and moving the pieces around him with a greater degree of knowledge of the terrain," the conservative writer Ben Domenech said on the eve of the Iowa caucus. "This is what should really scare Republican elites: It's learning."
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Why would he feign acting like an adult when being trashy has gotten him so far and he has fun doing it?
Truthfully, ever since that POS Bill Clinton sullied it with his presence, for me the office of the presidency pretty much lost all its aura. Coupled with the deranged state of the nation, it now strikes me little more respectful than being grand-marshal of the Doo-Dah Parade.
Just like Romney and W
Hey, CBS... Watch his speech to AIPAC. And/or, how about you report the news accurately for once?
Depends on who writes his speeches. When he is just doing one of his campaign specialties it has been said he speaks at a fourth grade level.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/17/donald-trump-speaks-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level/
When talking to peers he does not IMHO.
Watch him speak before congress AGAINST Reagan’s 1986 TAX plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rksd80-FCAw
Not unless he can learn to Tango!
Define acting presidential? If you mean will he ever tone down his rhetoric, speak in measured terms, stop his Twitter flame wars, and cease offending whole demographics? No, I dont think so. I dont think he could even if he wanted to.
And his behavior overpowers the issues he’s right about. Illegal immigration and Islamic terrorism
I listened to about five minutes of that speech. Trump said "Believe me..." a lot.
I once hired a contractor to build a room on my house. His favorite phrase was, "I'm going to tell you the truth." I found out that he lied a lot
“I don’t agree with Trump so he doesn’t seem Presidential to me”. This is one more example of the infantile thinking that is the trademark of your typical TDSer.
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