Posted on 11/10/2023 4:54:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump appeared on the Clay & Buck show, and the host (I don’t know whether Clay or Buck) asked Trump if he’d consider Tucker as a running mate. After waffling along for a while about the number of viewers he got when he talked to Tucker (very high), compared to viewership for the Republican debates (very low), Trump finally said he would consider Tucker because the latter has “great common sense.” That’s true but Tucker has something even more important: He’s a remarkably gifted communicator in ways that Trump is not.
In his own way, Trump is a very gifted communicator, which is why he was one of the most popular entertainers in America. He has the ability to drive points home through vivid language. “Build a wall.” “Sleepy Joe.” “Low energy Jeb.” None of them are clever phrases because they have wit, rhymes, or alliteration.
In other words, Trump will never be Winston Churchill. After all, when Harry Truman said of Clement Attlee, who replaced Churchill at 10 Downing Street, “He seems a modest sort of fellow,” Churchill’s instant response was “He’s got a lot to be modest about.” He also memorably called Ramsay MacDonald “a sheep in sheep’s clothing.” One delights in Churchill’s quips. That’s not Trump.
But in his own way, Trump has a remarkable ability to carry people along with his ideas. What Trump cannot do is defend those ideas with any depth or even coherence. He waffles along, as he did in the video above where, instead of just answering the question, he first boasts about his ratings and attacks his opponents’ ratings. It’s a maddeningly indirect style of speech.
Many feel (I among them) that this rambling style gets in the way of conveying important ideas to Americans during incredibly fraught times.
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RE: The last thing we need is a callow spawn of the CIA
Can you please explain to us what that means as it refers to Tucker?
Not in my opinion, for obvious reasons.
What don’t you understand: Callow, spawn, or CIA?
No. He’s an entertainer - like Rush was. They’re totally tuned in to the politics of the country, and were far right most of the time. But being in high office wouldn’t work for them because they’d have to play the game That would hobble them. They are/we most effective behind the mic.
Yes! Candace Owens!!
Spawn, CIA.
Please show evidence.
I might have missed it, but the link you provided does not seem to have the word CIA or specifically, Central Intelligence Agency in it.
Unless of course, the now defunct USIA is equivalent to the CIA…
I guess you don’t have much understanding of that world, do you?
Maybe this article will help:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/
Here’s what the article says:
“... the son of a man in charge of a CIA front organization tasked with aiding the Contras and overthrowing the government went there on more than one occasion remains suspect.”
That makes him as suspect somewhat as Ronald Reagan since he also supported the Contras in Nicaragua.
You are completely devoid of logic or a propagandist, with that cramp in thinking, so I will stop responding to you.
RE: You are completely devoid of logic or a propagandist
How am I propagandizing? I’m ASKING QUESTIONS to follow your logic.
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