Wednesday, March 1, 2017

No, Trump’s Address to Congress Wasn’t ‘Presidential’

http://prospect.org/article/no-trump%E2%80%99s-address-congress-wasn%E2%80%99t-%E2%80%98presidential%E2%80%99

From the site:

n Tuesday night, President Trump defied critics by proving he could read a teleprompter. In Trump’s hands, any evolution toward mastery of that skill could prove as dangerous as the improvisational oratorical bullying for which he is better known, for Trump’s reading style renders the articulation of evil into a banal-sounding sing-song celebration of resentment, greed, grief, and death.

The consensus forming among political observers on Donald J. Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress is that the president seemed “presidential.” Well, sure, if your idea of presidential is an authoritarian maniac who can read a teleprompter.

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