He so often contradicts himself in the very next sentence. From the Wallace interview:

[tblue37]

"We won two world wars. Beautiful world wars. That were vicious and horrible.

And like "perfect," he uses " beautiful" in the weirdest ways.

[agingdem]

1. because everyone knows wars are beautiful and he's a war president

must be why he doesn't give a damn about the 140,000 innocent lives lost to a pandemic he ignored...

[riversedge]

2. Trump is a deteriorating dangerous idiot.

[malaise]

3. He is stark raving mad

That is all

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Commander Cracked.

He’s wrecked.

[pandr32]

4. His vocabulary is very limited

Not to mention his cognition.

To think someone like this is in the Oval Office is not 'perfect' or "beautiful', but 'horrible'.

[dalton99a]

5. It was a beautiful and perfect interview

Every word of it

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. What strikes me is that any transcript of his remarks are always

far less comprehensible than if you simply listen to them. Seeing the actual words makes his inability to connect more than three words in a row in a reasonable way. If you listen, the fact that his prosody, meaning his patterns of stress and rhythm, are perfectly correct, as if he is saying something sensible. But as written down? The hypothetical monkey on a typewriter would produce for more coherent text.

[The Magistrate]

8. Hear Hear, Ma'am!

An important point indeed. One suspects most of his 'base' are not wholly literate in their engagement with life. Not that they cannot read, but that they do not read where it is not necessary for work or some activity. Moving picture sound is not only their entertainment, it is how they obtain most information on the world beyond their immediate horizons.


"The important thing is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. You are on to something there.

I'm going to guess that the vast majority of his base never reads anything at all. Not the local newspaper. Never a book. They get all of their news from places like Fox. As you said, they are not actually illiterate, but their engagement with the written word is extremely low.

[PatSeg]

16. Facebook memes

They read a lot of Facebook memes, especially the ones with pictures.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. I wonder if it's like a form of hypnosis with his physical presentation....

to such a degree that words don't really matter. A few like Limbaugh can do that just with their voice.

That seems to be a common trait of many charismatic speakers, many of whom are TV preachers. Others sell cheap junk, insurance or drugs we don't really need on QVC, HSN or late night TV.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Interesting point.

I personally cannot abide the sound of his voice, so I almost never listen to him. But I expect his base are enamored of the sound of his voice.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. I think it's also some aspects of his physical appearance....

along with the hand gestures and other mannerisms.

I've read statements from people that have met him that say he has very powerful charisma in person. That probably explains why he craves the rallies.

But I, like you, can't stand the sight of him or the sound of his voice. I was raised by people who went through the Depression dirt poor and who never gave space to people who came on as fake, arrogant, demanding or full of bullshit.

KY

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. "Perfect" and "beautiful" are his favorite words from his real estate scamming days...

along with many other excessive superlatives like "the best ever" and "no one else in the world", etc.

From back when he was selling condos in Florida with fake gold fixtures and fake celebrity owners.....

[Midnight Writer]

11. The hate radio talkers do the same, contradicting themselves in the next sentence.

I

[DTomlinson]

14. "He tells the same lies over and over. He is uncommonly easy to prepare for."

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