01-23-2017, 10:50 AM
I wasn't to surprised when the NY Times and George Will panned the Trump inaugural address. Politics makes strange bed fellows.
But I read it yesterday, and I listened to it today, and honestly I didn't think it was that horrible.
I thought it seemed like a speech he may have written himself - very simple words and sentence structure, and at least in terms of verbal IQ I don't think Trump is a very smart person. But, he may have other intelligence strengths. After all there are many ways to be smart.
And, while some of the language seemed inappropriate and out of touch - word choices such as "carnage" come to mind - some of it was pretty good, like the passage about all soldiers regardless of skin color bleeding the same red blood.
Trump may be above all else a chameleon - racists see him as a racist, rich people see him as one of them, poor people see him as their savior, etc. And this may make him a very effective political leader, as strange as that seems for me to say and likely seems for you to hear with it coming from me.
My hope is small, but I think this chameleon who perhaps doesn't believe so much of what he says may be a pragmatist who holds many values antithetical to his own rhetoric and his adopted party and so he may actually govern fairly and effectively, if he isn't just another Obama/Bush/Reagan whose only goal is for the rich to get richer.
What did you think of Trump's inaugural address?
Do you think he has any potential to govern effectively?
But I read it yesterday, and I listened to it today, and honestly I didn't think it was that horrible.
I thought it seemed like a speech he may have written himself - very simple words and sentence structure, and at least in terms of verbal IQ I don't think Trump is a very smart person. But, he may have other intelligence strengths. After all there are many ways to be smart.
And, while some of the language seemed inappropriate and out of touch - word choices such as "carnage" come to mind - some of it was pretty good, like the passage about all soldiers regardless of skin color bleeding the same red blood.
Trump may be above all else a chameleon - racists see him as a racist, rich people see him as one of them, poor people see him as their savior, etc. And this may make him a very effective political leader, as strange as that seems for me to say and likely seems for you to hear with it coming from me.
My hope is small, but I think this chameleon who perhaps doesn't believe so much of what he says may be a pragmatist who holds many values antithetical to his own rhetoric and his adopted party and so he may actually govern fairly and effectively, if he isn't just another Obama/Bush/Reagan whose only goal is for the rich to get richer.
What did you think of Trump's inaugural address?
Do you think he has any potential to govern effectively?
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
