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Trump - The Great Orator [1]
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Date: 2025-01-09
I came across a Substack article that was called "The Art of the Weave." Subtitled: "How President Trump's rhetorical innovation places him in good company among great western orators."
Before you die laughing, you must realize, of course, that this is a Trump groupie.
He starts off with, "Americans already have a pretty good sense of Donald Trump being the maestro of political rhetoric."
That makes about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine to keep the flies out in the winter.
Real Americans know that Donald Trump is a danger to the world and speaks like a 5 year old.
The author follows with a lot of fluff about Trump being able to communicate complex ideas that are informative and entertaining. Trump can't communicate complex ideas because his brain just doesn't work that way.
"His mastery of oratory has evolved over the years to incorporate new innovations previously unseen in our national lexicon."
Ready to barf yet?
"His innovations span well beyond simply making complex topics digestible for the masses. In a word, Donald Trump is a rhetorical craftsman."
I'm not making this up. The guy really believes this. It gets better. Actually it's getting worse, but if you're making fun of Trump, it gets better.
"Indeed his stranglehold over the public mind is such that's certain Trump disgruntled segments of the body politic even have their own medical condition to diagnose their affliction: 'Trump Derangement Syndrome,' a term now integrated into our political vernacular."
Stranglehold is right. Who can breathe when the man is around? Shouldn't be disgruntled, should just be plain gruntled. But wait, there's more.
"Donald Trump's ability to speak about several, seemingly disparate topics all at once, relating each subtopic to various other subtopics in speech, ultimately returning to the main point, where audiences then finally see the whole picture and understand each part related to the whole."
Most people would call that a scatterbrained drunk uncle. I'm surprised this guy hasn't been given a job in the Trump administration.
Trump himself said, "You weave topics together, you need an extraordinary memory, and I go to faraway places, and then I come back to exactly where I started."
I wish he would go to faraway places and never come back. Extraordinary memory? He can't remember what he said 30 seconds ago. He's even fallen into the trap that Trump has told about English professors thinking that he's brilliant.
"As the president himself has noted, the weave has been commended by English professors, and teachers of rhetoric in the classics, those with a deep-seated understanding of Cicero and Demosthenes, to say nothing of Shakespeare and Joyce, as a genuine innovation in the political lexicon."
I want some of the drug that this guy is taking. Just a reference to Shakespeare should make you gag. Then he has the temerity to take a swipe at Abraham Lincoln.
"Where Lincoln used to go on turgid tangents, often systematically laying out his premises as a lawyer would, for audiences to ascertain all of its pedantic depth, Donald Trump is a creature of the television age."
Creature is right. Probably the one from the Black Lagoon. Turgid tangents. I'd like to hear him try to say that three times real fast.
"Naysayers, who lack the ability to follow each subpart of how the weave relates to the whole, have long written off the president's skill as rambling."
It is rambling, you blithering idiot. The Weave is a made-up word for lack of English skills. Also a memory that is a sieve for information. Just like the scarecrow, if only he had a brain.
"President Trump has mastered this device so adeptly that it seems like whenever he deploys it in a speech, he does so unconsciously."
I don't know. If you don't have a conscious mind, the only way you can be unconsciously is if you're asleep, somebody just hit you with a baseball bat, or you're dead.
"Donald Trump, not being a politician by trade, but really, an innovator, a creative genius: in a word, an artist, was hence uniquely equipped to introduce something like the weave as an innovation in America's political lexicon."
He's used "lexicon" too many times. I think we've already seen this movie. Calling Donald Trump a genius? He should turn into stone from looking at Medusa's snakehead. An artist? The man doesn't have a creative bone in his body. He's a snake oil salesman. Next is one of the longest run-on sentences I've ever seen.
"Donald Trump's rally speeches, and his weave, thus tap into that classical heritage, binding our technological age to the most high-minded of the primitives, illuminating and expanding the trappings of the American mind in a way that causes listeners to think about the world in different ways, to expand their minds, and consider alternative and higher possibilities."
I think I need to duct tape this guy to a chair and make him read a transcript of one of Trump's rally speeches. If he can follow it and think it makes sense, I'm quite prepared to call the guys in white coats.
"In this respect, Donald Trump's weave is far more powerful than any individual policy or agenda, it is the conduit that can broaden the public imagination, and get us all thinking about new ideas and goals, the wellspring for genius and innovation for any civilization."
You know, civilization was doing pretty good until Donald Trump came along. He's about to send us back to the dark ages. Maybe as bad as the stone age. Even prehistoric. Before people could talk or had a written language.
That's where half of the country wants to go. Ignorance is bliss. Ignorance can be cured, stupidity is forever.
That's not a good enough ending.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits." supposedly Albert Einstein.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King.
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte.
"Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.' George Bernard Shaw.
I left the best for last.
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." John F. Kennedy.
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