Posted on 09/17/2015 8:13:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
For anyone who watched Wednesday night's Republican primary debate with the volume turned down, there was a clear winner, communication experts say: Donald Trump, hands down.
"When it comes to body language, nobody does it better," says David Givens, director of the Center for Nonverbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. "He just neutralizes the opposition."
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He leans forward on the lectern.
Trump's opponents tend to stand up straight, which might please their mothers, but doesn't do much for the audience. Givens notes that Trump puts his hands on the lectern and leans forward. "It's like he's doing a pushup. It's a display of power," he says.
He gestures out to the audience.
It's a very big gesture, Givens says, reaching way out. "He extends his hands towards you. It's very personal," Givens says.
His palms are up.
When he does these big gestures, he usually has his palms up.
"He's saying 'I'm open, I am who I am and you can trust me,'" Morgan says, noting that Trump tends to have his palms up when facing the audience or when journalists ask him questions, but not when he faces his opponents.
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That's a disgusting thing to say. She has been married twice, with not a long break in between, since 1977. Married to the second one since 1985, thirty years. How's most people's luck with the opposite sex in comparison?
Domination is The Prospective Presidential Candidate from NYC’s “rai·son d’ê·tre” OUI!
It’s not enough to know stuff. A president also has to be able to do stuff, and to lead. Trump is accustomed to having many good people working for him whose job it is to know specialized areas in depth. They keep him informed with relevant information reports; his key people outline the issues on the overall agenda and develop scenarios for handling issues, and ultimately the boss sets the direction and reviews progress and results. Many, many good ideas are lost for want of good and timely execution.
I could but wont go into a lenghty explanation of the underlying psychological for such a physiological phenomenon.
He was trained from youth to treat everything as a mere game..
At least three others were sweating and red faced. It wee lights or heat
It's one thing to say he is extremely competitive and a past master at gamesmanship. It's another thing to say he treats everything as a "mere" game. That's demonstrably false. If that were the case — no sense of proportion or priority — he would still be managing apartment complexes in Queens. Instead, he has developed massive buildings all over the nation and in several other nations, as well as 27 luxury resort properties that he has developed — privately, no shareholders — and his side businesses of merchandise and media properties. That's not just a game.
I was fully expecting him to blow a gasket.............
Close but not quite. He was trained from youth to believe everything is a negotiation/deal.
You don't build buildings and become a billionaire if you think everything is a game.
His military school added another dimension--teaching him life is a battleground.
A person had best know their stuff "THEN' get good advice from others. That is the very huge difference between Reagan and Trump. There is no Reagan knowledge and statesmanship there in Trump.
We don't even have even a slight clue as to whom Trump considers experts. You have to remember this is a man who has been all over the board politically. Trump if he wants POTUS needs to prove himself elsewhere first in government and he had his shots at this and passed them up by not taking on Bloomberg or DeBlasio and mayor of NYC or even governor. Then we may have had some actual clue as to how he would run the executive branch. Right now we don't that added with his antics are re red flag.
It says Bush thinks taller people are winners and shorter people are losers.
It says that:
1) Bush thinks that VOTERS think that taller people are winners and shorter people are losers;
2) Bush is stupid enough to think that nobody would catch that on a video (when there are photographers present taking pictures of all of them, no less); and
3) Bush is a juvenile.
I REALLY can't wait to see what Trump does with this one.
He can't do that now - not after calling her incompetent, and after saying that she ruined Lucent and HP. What would that say about HIS judgment, to pick someone he thinks can't even run a company?
Put her in charge of some federal bureaucracy that we want to get rid of...the lay-offs won't be long in coming. :>)
I would argue this is just another focus group answer / action.
like Fiorina’s focus group tested answers.
how many could have been replaced by Disney animatronics?
We are voting on their maturity, their grasp of the issues, and their ability to stay calm under fire.
Whose finger do you want on the nuclear button?
Business experience is very relevant - running the Executive Branch is not a whole lot different than running a large organization. The leader sets broad policies, then has lower level managers (whom he/she picks) implement them well. Someone who can't do that well isn't going to be a good President, regardless of their maturity.
Regarding calm under fire and fingers on the nuclear button: You sound like those criticizing Reagan. Look, Donald Trump has spent his whole life BUILDING things - as in, being creative. The exact opposite of that is nuclear destruction, where you not only destroy people and things, but you can't then go in and use the same land because it is poisoned. He'll be tough, and he'll use his demeanor to intimidate foreign leaders where necessary - it is part of a strategy; this is a guy who thinks in terms of success over decades, not just the next news cycle.
She was fired over her bungling which has destroyed HP to this day.
His casinos may have reorganized but he knows how to manage companies in debt.
Agreed. But probably unsaid was, "and don't get caught doing it." Can't wait to see the Trump commercials and comments about that.
I don’t think he was “steaming”, i.e., very angry. I think he was embarrassed. But if he had been angry, I’d be OK with that. The way she comes across, she’s every man’s night terror — a reminder of a nasty mom, horrible boss, or harpy ex-wife. I hope she continues ‘cause each time she does she looks worse. And I don’t mean her face; there’s something bad going on underneath.
I think it’s about time Trump hauled out the women in his life — Melania, Ivanka, and even Ivana.
I don’t get the feeling he’s mean to girls or women. He’s the kind of boss I loved to work for — high energy, smart, funny, and totally un-PC.
Carly, on the other hand, is the kind of boss I despised with every breath in me. Stick up her a$$, ruthless, a cold, cold heart.
Being involved in hundreds of business ventures over the years just about requires that a few will go bad. Even the best leaders and the most brilliant people fail once in a while. The real test during and after that failure is a two-fold one:
First, do you limit your losses? and
Second, do you learn enough not to repeat the same mistakes that you AND YOUR COMPETITION made?
Trumps failures (3 that I know of...I don’t know what the 4th one was) were all casinos. EVERY casino in A.C. went belly-up, but he got out earlier than most (thus preserving the most capital).
As for iCarly’s accusation about debt, it was disingenuous at best - she knows damned well that 99.9% of successful large businesses use debt, and that occasionally bankruptcy results. So what? That is part of the risk that lenders take, and the risk is (on balance) offset by a higher interest rate. Except that for political reasons, she could score a few points on that score.
She had 2 big opportunities, Lucent and HP. Neither turned out well. Her batting average is .000 Trump’s batting average is somewhere above .950. Who is the better business person?
The voters can tell that Jeb doesn’t really believe that. But some of us know that Trump knows that it is about him right now and its also about the country.
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