I’m still trying to figure out the dance. When you make the letters with your arms, should the ‘C’ be correct from my POV, or that of someone facing me?
Correct from the perspective of the person facing you. They used to teach this stuff in schools before the country went all to hell.
“I’m the father of IVF”
“The word is probation. In order to get the people in legally, they call them probation. That’s for prisoners. They use this in Springfield… You can’t get into the hospitals. You can’t get your kids in to school. They’re taking over the school”
“We have thousands of judges at the border. No other country has judges at the border. If somebody walks in, they walk them out”
Interviewer: How will you lower the cost of childcare?
Trump: You never heard of Ivanka, right? My daughter drove me crazy on this. We had the simplest, most beautiful, you know, I gave you the largest tax cuts in the history of our country.
Interviewer: How will you lower the cost of bacon?
Trump: There wouldn’t have been a Ukraine and Russia. There wouldn’t have been an October 7.
Interviewer: How will you combat inflation?
Trump: You make donuts. You have the stoves. You have the this. Everything has evolved.
Q: Why is the government controlling women’s bodies?
Trump: Yeah, I think it’s great. For 52 years, they wanted to end Roe v. Wade. We were able to do it.
Fox host: The family of Amber Thurman, who died after not receiving urgent care needed for an infection under Georgia’s abortion ban, is speaking ahead of this town hall
Trump: We’ll get better ratings, I promise
Q: Do you really believe immigrants are eating people’s pets?
Trump: I was just saying what was reported. And eating other things too that they’re not supposed to.
Holy guacamole, dude, you’re damaging your brain enough with channeling him for parodies. Don’t, don’t do it!
I’m honestly not sure I can imitate him anymore. He’s had a major downturn in the last month and there’s very little logic to what he says anymore aside from reciting a few canned talking points in response to any question he gets asked.
I never could’ve predicted him saying “kickback” ten times in a row, or deciding that his rally was boring and to “make it into a music”, for instance.
We’re talking about Trump so there’s been conjecture for years just how literate he is. Being able to read well would seem to be a critical core skill before attempting to master teleprompters.
Trump’s vocabulary is limited, but he can read well enough to function. What he can’t do well is read without his glasses, which he needs but refuses to wear onstage because they offend his vanity.
Assuming he isn’t nearsighted and just needs reading glasses, teleprompters shouldn’t pose an issue sans glasses as they’d be far enough away to be in focus.
Teleprompters don’t pose any problem, if all somebody needs is reading glasses. I need reading glasses (in fact, I’m wearing mine right now, otherwise my screen would be blurry), but I don’t need them to see four to six feet out.
The other thing is that the writing on a teleprompter is big. Definitely not your 12-point Arial , put on a screen. The letters on screen when I learned were maybe 1.5 to 2 inches high. Easy enough for me to read at a bit of a distance. I’d imagine that Trump would find the same thing.
And large letters. They can be made as large as they need to be.
I did not mean to imply he is illiterate but rather alliterate. “Able to read but unwilling to do so.”
If I was him I’d wear the glasses. They do make him look smarter.
Fair enough. I’ve never needed glasses or used a teleprompter and I don’t know what Trump’s specific visual impairment is, but an inability to clearly read the prompter would explain why he so frequently goes off script or complains that the prompter isn’t working (he’d have to be the unluckiest man in politics for his prompter to break as often as he claims it does).
Q: Do you still believe climate change is a hoax?
Trump: I get awards environmental awards for the way I build it for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water, I mean, many different, but I’ve had many awards over the years for environmental, the way I’ve built because you know about building, that’s what you do. It’s very important to me… The real global warming that we have to worry about is nuclear. The water is coming up an eighth of an inch over 300 years, the ocean is gonna rise and, you know, nobody knows if that’s true or not, but they’re worried about the ocean rising an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch in 300 years
Q: How do you explain your gun policy to the parents of school shooting victims?
Trump: You need guns. You need them for entertainment, for sport, and other things
“I never fired somebody that said wonderful things”
“Linda McMahon did a great job during COVID” (she quit in 2019)
Q: I am a Republican, but no longer registered. I was disturbed by January 6. People from your own administration don’t support you. Your own Vice President doesn’t support you. So why would I want to support you?
Trump: I totally disagree with Mike Pence for certifying the election results. January 6 was a day of love
“Hispanics are attracted to me. So hopefully these will be extremely easy questions”
Why wouldn’t Hispanics be attracted to him? He loves Hispanics that make him food!!!
No Hispanics were involved in the creation of that taco salad.
No place to go but up.
I can imagine trump saying to an aide after the Town Hall “that illegal who asked the pet question-- tell Miller to put him on the ‘deport on day one’ list”.
Aide: “But sir, he’s not an illegal, he’s a naturalized American citizen and a registered Republican”.
trump: “I don’t care. He can’t even speak English. And no true Republican would ask me that. Make sure he gets on the list”.
Something tells me from the look on that guy’s face that trump ain’t winning his vote back…
Or that word salad.
You forgot my favorite exchange from that same appearance.
Trump: Ashli Babbitt was killed. No one was killed.
The look on one woman’s face in this clip from Adam Mockler says it all.
Therefore, no one is Ashli Babbitt.