OMG...what a fucking un-presidential idiot

[BoneyardDem]

I honestly think this is the first time I've sat through an entire Trump speech, this one for the FBI Academy graduation ceremony. It was very difficult, to listen to. I also honestly thought that all the previous sound bites I'd been hearing on left leaning news reports (including DU) were showing the worst of Trump, simply because they have an interest in painting him in a poor light.

I admit I was wrong....these were not biased sound bites, this is exactly how Trump speaks. He finds the one liner that elicits cheers and repeats it several times until it has worn thin. In this speech it was how he, Trump is the biggest, best, most ardent protector of law enforcement...only he is the champion. At some point the cheering volume reduced to a smattering of applause...he finally quit brining it up.

Trump's speech was full of verifiable errors, lies and phoney campaign rhetoric. His off script ad libbing was laughable, repeated numerous times over the last year and clearly was designed to appeal to the most inane Fox viewer. His rambling diatribes of platitudes that seemed not only shallow but rang hollow never did elicit the hat tossing cheers he was clearly looking up to see...and missed. Even his most ardent audience members fell asleep for a moment.

I doubt I'll ever spend the time to listen to another speech...those sound bites are already barely tollerable, but at least I know they are actually a true reflection of the fucking idiot in chief.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Better you than me!

[Motley13]

2. I admire your courge, I have to mute him

[BobsYourUncle]

75. In addition...

throw a towel over the screen!

[COLGATE4]

3. The droll British have a wonderful expression

that I believe covers Dumpy to a "T": He's barking mad.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I fear that listening to too many Trump speeches might actually cause brain damage.

So it's best not to do it any more often than necessary.

[BoneyardDem]

9. Well, I did hold out for almost a year

Given today's fiasco, it'll be very unlikely to happen again.

[onecaliberal]

5. I honestly can't listen... I can't look at him, I just can't. I am so god damn angry.

[BoneyardDem]

14. In addition to the anger

....I often sense anxiety and aggravation in levels I never experienced even under Bush. I wonder if this same level of negative emotions that the Right felt when Obama was in office? It's hard to imagine the republican constituency considered Obama as destructive as we deem Trump to be.

[onecaliberal]

64. Oh please he wasnt destroying the country and lying faster than anyone can talk.

[3catwoman3]

67. I don't think it is the same...

...even tho it may have felt like it, because their fears were irrational, and ours are not. Trump is a one man wrecking crew.

[lunasun]

76. If this is how the right felt when Obama gave a speech then they are all as insane as thier leader

Maybe anxiety from not understanding his bigly words or anger as racists I'll leave that possibility open

[Alice11111]

28. !!! Like listening to other famous demagogue dictators

[Fred Sanders]

6. Always playing to his shrinking cult, playing to Fox to keep the cult frothy. So obvious.

How that Alamana election turn out for you and your defeated cult?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. What's fun is to watch the videos with sound off.

You see some interesting things.

I think every Dem. voter should watch at least one of his speeches, for inoculation effect.

[BoneyardDem]

17. "I think every Dem. Voter should watch.....for inoculation effect"

100% agreed. Certainly worked for me.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. I have never listened to an entire speech of his

and will never do so unless I'm locked in a room somewhere and they play it.

I often won't even listen to the soundbites.

[skypilot]

37. Clockwork ORANGE

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. The bigger and dumber the lies, the more his base will believe them and support him.

[bdamomma]

10. why was he even there???

he fucking hates the FBI.

[snowybirdie]

22. It wasn't the FBI

It was a training school they have for local officers throughout the country.

[bdamomma]

23. oops noted.

nt

[MrPurple]

52. That's exactly why he went

To counter his attacking them because they've been investigating Russian collusion and to try to create the impression that the problem is only with a few corrupt agents that don't support him.

There is nothing this motherfucker does that is actually to help this country in even the slightest way.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Caught part of his spew.

What a calculating person. Something is up in a major way. You just do not attack your Investigative Agencies without some type of reaction to you. Said this before,these Agencies are going to take the Trump Crime Family as well as some GOP Leaders.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I don't think Trump is a calculating person.

I think he's totally reactive. He's not an evil but clever criminal mastermind; he doesn't have a strategy; he doesn't play a long game. He is constantly looking for one thing: ego satisfaction, which he derives from applause and from insulting and demeaning those whom he regards as enemies. But he has no sense of what is appropriate for a given audience so he'll insult the FBI at the FBI's training academy, just because he hates the FBI.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Agree with the reactive part.

He is a self ,created Reality TV Star and that is all he is. Yes,he is not calculating,but,uses phrases that he knows will pick up applause. There was a story about a Gossip Writer for I thing it is Page Six,who pretty much made his Society Image and she talks about how he Morphed into it.

Again,it is all about Stage Crafting. The Guy has bought his way out of Trouble so many times,that he can do the same again again.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Self-Created, Except For The Part. . .

. . .where he inherited enough money to never actually have to be good at anything.

[Atman]

20. This. Spot on.

I don't have much patience for people who call him cunning and calculating. He's an impulsive man-child that says whatever pops into his syphilis-addled brain, with no care or forethought.

[bdamomma]

24. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. He has no filter. And massive ego. Bad combo.

[tblue37]

26. This. He exists in the moment and seems his ego but in the moment,

without reference to the long term. I wonder what an autopsy would show about the development of his prefrontal cortex.

[Scarsdale]

54. I LOATHE this

fat, useless bastard with every fiber of my being. Absolutely repulsive, uncouth piss poor excuse for a human being. There are several members of the gop who are his match.

[Alice11111]

29. Makes it up as he goes, whatever is playing w the reality show

audience at the moment. If what plays today, doesn't play tomorrow, he changes it, 180 if necessary.

Most of his followers are stupid, naive, or, a small percentage, really greedy & wealthy.

[maxsolomon]

65. Disregard his technique at your peril

Trump is a long-time Con Man. He was raised to be one. Every success he's had involved a con.

His use of stupid nicknames for his enemies is not coincidental. It's a technique, it sticks in the brains of his marks. Crooked, Crazy, Little, etc. Schoolyard insults, but ones that stick.

He understands TV, he understands just how little the average viewer/voter wants to take the time to understand complicated issues, he understands how to play to resentments and grievance , and he understands how to drag his opponents down into the mud with him (which is what he's doing to the FBI).

Most importantly, he understand that there is no consequence to bald-faced lying and bullying in America. If anything, those methods are rewarded time and again - it got him elected. His entire life is a dare to the less powerful: "What are you gonna do about it? That's what I thought. Nothing."

At this point, I put his re-election chances above 50%.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. "The Best" "The Very Best" "The Greatest ... The Best ever" "Best in the world"

"The Best"

[bdamomma]

25. oh you forgot

"winning"

[Alice11111]

32. Believe me, believe me, You are going to get tired of Winning,

because there is going to be so much winning."

...for the Trump 💰 bank accounts.

[CrispyQ]

15. If you listen to him from much earlier, you can see the mental deterioration that has occurred.

He's totally unfit for the office, even more glaringly so than Reagan.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. He's always been a horse's ass, and as such was always unfit for office,

but with his brain apparently turning to oatmeal it's about time he was 86'd from the White House before he starts a war.

[Atman]

19. Truly amazing that just a couple of hours before he was trashing the FBI.

He stood before the cameras in the morning and berated the terrible FBI in his off-the-cuff remarks, then goes before the FBI graduates and says they have no better advocate than he, and that he loves them and and supports them and has their backs. There is no greater example of a sociopathic liar.

[erinlough]

21. The quickest my husband or I move anymore is

To grab the remote and mute the TV any time Trump, or Sarah Sanders comes on. The exercise is the only positive part of this travesty of a presidency so far.

[Alice11111]

35. Yep. I run to bleep him too, tripping all over myself.

[LuckyLib]

43. Our house as well. Its audio sewage. Cant listen!

[Heartstrings]

27. I can't tolerate his face, much less his voice...

[RVInit]

30. Deteriorating for sure

He used to be able to think of more than one superlative. Today is was just "great" - over and over again. Oh, and he's the only one who is LOYAL to them. He stressed that a couple of times, making sure they got the message that HE has their backs. Just plain pandering. It's almost as bad as asking them to take a loyalty pledge to him, it has the same effect.

He also seemed to be confusing the FBI with local law enforcement. He referred to "men in blue" (FBI generally are called G-men), told them to go back to their "precincts" and tell your fellow employees I have their back (FBI aren't divided into "precincts&quot and something about when people see your "sirens" (FBI don't "pull people over" using "sirens&quot .

It was bizarre. Typical Trump, but he's is definitely deteriorating.

[Eliot Rosewater]

36. He confuses who is who because he knows nothing.

I mean he knows nothing about anything other than fox good, everywhere else bad.

Beyond that, he knows what fast food he likes, how to attack women and get away with it, etc.

[LittleGirl]

55. Welcome to DU RVInit

I agree with you about his cognitive abilities. I saw a clip of him back in the late 90s and he spoke in complete sentences and didn't make grammatical errors. His ability to speak proper English has seriously deteriorated. It's appalling how bad he is. For example, last week when he slurred his words, Pence was standing behind him and didn't even flinch when he slurred so apparently, he's heard it before. Not FIT TO BE PRESIDENT and he's not my President. He's a clown and was placed in office by some shading stuff.

Personally, I think he's on drugs. I don't know what kind of drugs but his sniffling and slurring is pronounced.

[RVInit]

60. Totally agree and hello back

Hello everyone!

[Skittles]

66. good catches, RVInit

are you in law enforcement? Welcome to DU!

[PatSeg]

31. Actually reading

some of his speeches is even a greater eye opener. They are often unintelligible, yet his base cheers him on. Maybe they all share a certain idiot-speak.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. I think its the innuendo and facial expressions that his base (and hoo-wee, are they ever *base*)

Respond to.

He’s working their lizard brains. The faces and little visual shticks he does appeal to people who think in single syllables of resentment. They don’t have to engage the frontal cortex, they insert their own words and urges and think there’s a circle of agreement; his supposedly “knowing” eye-rolls and so forth reinforce their perception that they all know something the Enemy doesn’t.

Would be interesting to study hypothalamus reactions to speakers and see how CONservatives/trumpanzees brain patterns look when exposed to his style of communication (verbal simplicity, innuendo underlined with visual shenanigans for the suggestible.).

Would be interesting to study other dictators’ communication in this regard.

[PatSeg]

61. Yes, I think you're right

I imagine that as they listen, they are all hearing their own speech, as if he is talking just to them. So his actual words don't mean very much, except when he repeats some catch phrase over and over again, "Build the wall", "Drain the swamp" "Crooked Hillary". Then add the eye rolls, facial expressions, and odd hand gestures, it becomes a symphony of anger and hate.

If we all survive this, I hope someone does do a study on how this kind of communication affects people.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

72. Yes, exactly. Oh I wish I was a social psychologist in research.

But that requires statistics. Aghhhh! Nooo!

[PatSeg]

74. And a really strong stomach

[LittleGirl]

56. I can't watch him

so a few months ago, I read the script of one of his interviews or speeches and that when I couldn't make heads or tails of what he was trying to say. I knew then, he has some serious issues with completing a thought. A sentence even.

[PatSeg]

63. There were a few speeches

where it wasn't just a phrase or two, the entire speech was word salad, like he opens his mouth and lets whatever is bouncing around his brain just spew out randomly. The one to the Coast Guard comes to mind, it was especially bizarre.

[LittleGirl]

69. And you know what makes me furious?

That the GOP Congress doesn't even bat an eye about it. To have that guy represent the leader of their party is sickening.
I can't stand #45 so much I won't mention his name or type it but the Congress men and women that turn away and don't do something just infuriates me. I hate those people more than 45 because they are letting this go on so long. ugh.

[PatSeg]

71. I agree

The world is full assholes like Trump (minus money, fame, and power), but without these enablers, they are often pretty harmless. The republicans in Congress know who and what he is, but they put their political careers and winning first. Totally shameless and immoral. They apparently don't believe in anything.

[moondust]

33. Did he mention the United Shaysh?

[SunSeeker]

39. LOL

[BlancheSplanchnik]

50. You-Nye Shaysh.

[SunSeeker]

38. Yep, every time I hear him speak, I don't know who I am angriest at.

Trump, or the idiots who voted for him.

[Still In Wisconsin]

41. Sometimes I will listen briefly to Hannity or Limbaugh just to see what evil shit they're spewing.

I can usually take it for about two minutes tops.

For me, listening to TRUMP is exactly the same. Two minutes and I can't take any more!

[ProfessorGAC]

44. That's Much Longer Than Me

When i watch CSAN WJ on weekends, if they show a clip, it's pick up the remote and put ESPN back on. I can always push the buttons again and go back to WJ.

[calimary]

45. As soon as a trump soundbite is intro'd, I hit the mute button.

Can't stand him. Can't stand the sound of his voice. Can't stand to listen to him blither like the idiot he is. He can barely read a teleprompter or script. But you can count on him to repeat repeat repeat. And a lot of "incredible" and "believe me" and other crap. And every time he gestures with either hand, I am THOROUGHLY creeped out. Can't help but wonder where that hand has been. And who it just violated.

Maybe that's why Steve Mnuchin's trophy wife sometimes wears fashion gloves? I would, too, if I knew I was gonna be around him. I NEVER EVER want skin-to-skin contact with that monster, even if it's only a handshake.

[lark]

46. You must have a very strong stomach!

I, however, don't and feel physically ill when i listen to more than a few sentences. I have refused to listen to any of his speeches since Charlottesville. Hair Furor is too crazy, too idiotic, too racist and hate filled, too ignorant and too anti-America to be listened to. I applaud your courage and committment to verify that he is worse than advertised.

[dchill]

47. K&R.

[argyl]

49. The first Republican Presidential debate was the first time Id listened to him.

The guy had been a celebrity for about thirty years at the time so I’d heard sound bites of him but after a short time I was flabbergasted this guy was even considered as presidential material.
Needless to say, my impression of him has gotten much worse. But he also scares the bejabbers out of me now.

[SCantiGOP]

51. This is not complicated

Forget the politics, forget the possibility of some cognitive problem, he is simply not a very smart person.
Can you imagine Trump on Jeopardy? Any chance he could score in positive numbers? I'm not sure he could pass a GDE exam.

[yuiyoshida]

53. Didn't you hear?

He is going to build the biggest and Best FBI the world has ever seen, and probably with Putin's help!

[lunatica]

57. He wears thin by the time his first speech is halfway done.

And worse is he repeats all his hand and body gestures endlessly, like a wind up doll.

[djacq]

59. Youre better off watching Cartoon Network

He never writes his own speeches.
It’s always his first time looking at when he reads the TelePrompTer.
The theme always happens to place him at the center of attention.
When he reads, it’s at a level of an 8th grader.
When he ad-libs, it’s to lie, brag, insult, or pander to his shrinking base.

[EleanorR]

62. left leaning news reports?

Reporting biased sound bites?

If a democrat could believe such things, I'm terrified what a republican might believe.

[infidel621]

68. Fucking idiot

I think is a common and daily association with Trump. I know those words come out of my mouth every time I read or hear about him.

[handmade34]

78. I never used to

swear before last year... now an automatic 'fucking asshole' comes out each time I see/hear him...

[smirkymonkey]

70. It's like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I can't stand more than 30 seconds of him, but

every time I see or hear this, I am still just incredulous that this pathetic excuse of a human being is actually the fucking president of the United States!!!

[7962]

73. Whenever I read a title like yours I wonder "Oh shit, what NOW?" nt

[PatrickforO]

77. I can remember during the election season in 2016, when our 'friends' in the media

would play these Trump speeches live, in their entirety, day after day, while the only coverage they gave Clinton was on the emails.

I'm sure you've heard the story that Trump once had a book of Hitler's speeches on his nightstand and used them to perfect his own speaking technique.

Trump and everything he stands for is evil. He and his cabal of traitorous and radical right wingers intend to pull apart this nation's social, institutional, economic and moral fabric, after which they will replace it with a fascist dictatorship supported by oligarchs.

[Honeycombe8]

79. He's an embarrassment and is unfit for office. This was evidence before the election.

The Trumpers who have become wise to this, now (though they are few), can't say this is a shocker. This was evident to most of the country before the election.

When he stood on stage and mocked, both physically and verbally, a disabled person...that said it all.

[SergeStorms]

80. What you experienced......

is exactly the reason I will run across the living room for the remote control, just to press the 'mute' button as fast as humanly possible. While doing that, I'm also screaming at the television, using every cuss word I've learned over my 68 years, just so I won't hear one word coming from that ignoramus's mouth. I live alone, so I don't have anyone looking at me like I've lost my mind.

I also try very hard to never look at his stupid, blubbery, orange face with that ridiculous comb-over atop his empty head. I can't stand the sight of him. Of course I couldn't stand the sight of him before he was pResident, either. I'm from New York, and we've been aware of this asshat's antics for decades. He repulses me, and most other New Yorkers as well. Having him as pResident is a particularly horrifying experience for any New Yorker. Take a normal person's revulsion to him and multiply by 10 for a New Yorker's revulsion to him. He's just that freaking disgusting.