Who authors Trump’s speeches? I’m talking about what he reads off of teleprompters, not his personal rantings. Please provides cites. Thx.
His speechwriters.
As of April, he didn’t have one:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-im-not-going-to-blow-it-1461200705
More recently there appears to have been some work on writing the speech, but it’s not clear if professional speech writers were involved. If there was professional help, Trump isn’t talking about them.
I’ve seen a few snippets of his prepared TelePrompter speeches (as much as I could stomach), and compared to the pro wrestling style of speech he usually gives, they’re relatively sensible.
In the end though, it won’t matter (I hope). Anything he does to behave as a normal and sane presidential candidate will be too little, too late.
I always assumed someone from the WWF.
Trump, of course, never listens & never delivers them dressed in wrestling bikini bottoms and bad sun glasses while grunting and pointing at the camera with short stubby fingers.
Now there was a visual I really didn’t need…
It looks like Trump’s speeches pretty much plagiarize the philosophy of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels.
I think you do them both too much justice. But Goebbels was at least enough of a thinker to be cunning and astute, whereas the impression I get is that Trump doesn’t know what he thinks till he hears it coming out of his mouth.
It’s this guy right here.
I don’t know. Wouldn’t that put his supporters completely over the top?
I was going to guess a 17-year-old redneck.
Oh, that was good. But I think you meant WWE, didn’t you?
According to an op-ed I read just yesterday, when he delivers one of those scripted speeches, he visibly chafes at the self-restraint required, and requires visibly uncomfortable self-control (not always entirely successful) to stay on-script and not start throwing injudicious insults around. The question, then, is: Can he put on his “Presidential” act and stick with it consistently until election day? The apparent answer is: Probably not.
Hang tight a bit, I’ll see if I can find it again . . .
ETA: Found it! There’s No Such Thing as Nice Trump, Molly Ball, The Atlantic, June 13, 2016.
You’ve heard of the millionth monkey with a typewriter, right?
Some of us old folks that were around before the World Wildlife Fund thought they were more important than wrestling (and, if they’re like me, haven’t watched pro wrestling since about 1988) still call it by the old name sometimes.
My guess is Pazuzu.
Yea, you’re right. I’m that old, too. WWE, WWF; I knew where he was coming from. I was distracted-posting anyway or i’d have seen his footnote.