That’s always been the case. At his rallies he just riffs on whatever pops into his head - dishwashers, the Oscars, you name it. So the content is completely bonkers, but he sounds animated and human.
When he reads off a teleprompter, he’s terrible. I’d say he sounds robotic but Alexa sounds more human than he does.
A bit of video captured after il Doofus apparently thought the cameras were off, showing him saying “Okaaaayyy…” in the tone of a bratty toddler who doesn’t quite dare to continue with “…I finished the goddamn green beans; can I go now?”
“There! That ought to hold the little bastards.”
As people have noted, there’s manic rally Trump and downer teleprompter Trump.
In many other situations, like when talking about the coronavirus or other subjects he doesn’t comprehend, I’ve always thought Trump has sounded like a middle school student giving to the class a book report on something he hasn’t read but he’s so narcissistic he believes they will believe his bullshit:
Trump: “The book I read is called To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s about this scout who is in a race to find and kill a mockingbird…”
Well, I used to say he’s pissed me off by still breathing, and I guess that’s still true. But since he’s made so many stupid statements about the coronzvirus I’d like to see him test positive.
I was going to say that at least he didn’t make a joke about bombing Russiabut of course he would never joke about that. Bombing California, though…
I’m pissed off at Trump for going on national TV and flat-out lying about this pandemic. I’m also pissed off at the House of Representatives for not impeaching him for that stunt.
I was listening to the Science Friday podcast today. They did a piece on mental health problems among farmers, and how stressed they were about the current economic conditions that apparently aren’t all that good for farmers, with rising bankruptcies and tariffs and stuff.
I’m afraid my reaction was to turn it off, saying to myself, “To hell with you, you got what you voted for.”
What pisses me off here is that President Chump is causing me to really despise people who were stupid enough to support him. I don’t like feeling that way.
Both your reactions–despising those who helped make Trump President, and disliking despising them–are perfectly reasonable, in my view.
As our species developed, those with the capacity to negatively judge those who endangered the entire group, were more likely to survive and reproduce. So you come by this distaste for the careless and stupid among us quite naturally.
Funny - I was just thinking about Science Friday the other day. I haven’t listened to it in years, and was thinking I should probably add it back into my podcast queue.
The reason I was thinking about it was because of a piece they did years ago when the serious anti-vax movement was gaining steam. The interview was with, I’m pretty sure, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and they took listener questions. An anti-vaxxer called in and was trying to argue her position in the face of the good Dr. Fauci’s facts. At one point, Ira Flatow asked the caller, “is there anything Dr. Fauci could say that could lead you to change your mind.” The caller just flat-out said, “no,” and the conversation ended.
I feel the same way about the anti-vaxxers and this caller as you and I do about these farmers, and I similarly feel bad for feeling this way about them.
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That fucking fucker pisses me off every day, and lately several times a day, but this has left me speechless.
“Lovely country you’ve got here, be a shame if anything were to…happen to it. By the way, how many ventilators do you have?”
I don’t even have to look on Twitter or online comments section to know that there are plenty of trumpeters now accusing that company and/or Germany of “hating America” now.
Remember when Trump was only killing us slowly by going on national TV and flat-out lying about climate change? Those were the good old days.
Am I missing something, or are they? Last I heard, a “vaccine” was still a gleam in the test tube’s eye.
He probably thought he could buy the company with taxpayer money and then bully the employees to hurry up and do it faster!!111
And the company, would, of course, be part of TrumpCo.
No doubt he would want that logo stamped on every pill.
“Sure, most vaccines are injected, but this is a new, fantastic improvement! All the needles are inside the pill, and when it dissolves, they spring out and inject the medicine! People come up to me, with tears in their eyes, and scream…”