I should probably be ashamed of myself, but even after all of this time, Trump never ceases to amaze. He’s bad enough on his own, but whatever else he does, it only seems to make him worse!
Der Trumpkopf unscripted is a total political disaster. He’s like a video shot in Dr. Timothy Leary’s office when he was doing his LSD experiments. Rambling is bad enough, but not criminal, hell, bearded longhairs in Washington Square Park do that every day standing on boxes and yelling through bullhorns. When the rambling turns into a toxic sludge of Mexican rapists, barring Muslims, a “Big, Beautiful Wall” that “Mexico is going to pay for”, insulting women and picking fights with POW heroes and a Gold Star family, this is not a road map for electoral success. But what it is is what works for his deranged base of Trumpaholics. It gets their motors running on a lean mixture, and gives them the excuse to scream out their own pathetic true selves in public.
The RNC was terrified, not only was their candidate insane, but he was going to drag the entire party down with him. Something had to be done! The solution was simple, shackle him with a teleprompter. Not for every appearance and rally, but for high ticket speeches and appearances that would attract widespread coverage in the media. Stop his goddamn free association ramblings!
It was a disaster. In case nobody noticed before, Trump has an attention disorder. He can’t concentrate on anything for more than :05. The great teleprompter experiment was a nightmare. His facial characteristics were terrible, he looked like Malcolm MacDowell in “A Clockwork Orange”, eyes wide open and pinballing them back and forth between the monitors. His delivery absolutely sucked! He couldn’t be bothered to study the speech in advance, so he had no idea whatsoever what he was saying, and where to put verbal inflections and emphasis into his speech. The media took great joy in describing his robotic, almost narcotized delivery, but at least he was on message. Just one problem, his base fell asleep. This was not the Sam Kinison show they had come to know and love.
So, the RNC let Trump go back tp being Trump, which was like giving Charlie Manson a weekend pass from “The Q” with a tab of acid and a knife. The Trombies were ecstatic, their Messiah was back! But the RNC was in full blown crisis mode. This guy was now their candidate, no more heroes riding in on a white charger (the horse, not the car). Pissing all over Ryan, McCain and Ayotte was the last straw. who else would irritate him next?! The RNC had no choice, they had to throw the Hail Mary, and in August yet.
They sent him out there to endorse Ryan with notes. Yes, freakin’ notes! Trump unscripted was a smorgasbord of the absurd. Trump on a teleprompter was a cure for insomnia, and a sure fire turn off for his supporters. Trump with notes was a zombie with pieces rotting off. He gave up all pretense of eye contact. He put his head down, stared directly at the notes and just read by rote with no inflection whatsoever, and worst of all, he held the notes up above the podium edge so he could see them. The “on the notes” portion of his speech was the most poorly received speech I’ve ever seen him give. Granted it wasn’t a huge venue, but the applause was sparse and almost grudging, and the crowd was clearly turned off. Here, you can see for yourself.
x YouTube VideoLook, most politicians use notes. Obama and Clinton have aides put them on the rostrum before they come out. Bernie carried them out in his coat pocket, opened them up and put them down. But the pros actually study their notes, they don’t need to read the entire thing, a few “teaser words” at the start of the sentence bring the entire sentence to their recall, they can look at the audience. Trump can’t be bothered with the prep work.
This is the real secret weapon for the Democrats, and the hilarious part is that the GOP is wielding it, not us! His crowd absolutely hates a scripted Orange Julius in any form, but making him look like just another political hack by using crib notes is the one thing that can turn his Trombies sour on him. If we can just keep the GOP forcing him to use those notes to say what they want him to say, this truly will be a tsunami election. The long and short of it is, no matter which Trump opens his mouth, somebody is going to be either offended or turned off. And playing Catch up is just going to keep getting that much harder as time passes.
Thanks as always for reading.