Don't Be A Moron, Donald Trump Was A TERRIBLE Communicator
Do we honor Jefferson Davis as a great communicator for inspiring the attempted overthrow of democracy? No, so why would we honor Trump?
Donald Trump is a terrible communicator. Great communicators like to communicate.
Trump’s communications are a toxic spigot of daily grievances and ignorant prejudices like a toddler, not a responsible professional of any job, let alone the former leader of the free world.
As president he eschewed press conferences and favored impromptu ramblings to press gaggles before prescheduled events, usually in front of the loud sound of his helicopter so he could skip questions he didn’t want to answer pretending he couldn’t hear.
He also liked hosting masturbatory political rallies until COVID canceled them in his presidency’s last year, so he transitioned into leading daily White House briefings in which he singlehandedly wrecked America’s handling of the pandemic by lying about the severity of the public health crisis, and offering ludicrous fake COVID cures that made the real medical professionals in the room bury their faces in their hands. His medical obfuscation certainly resulted in the death of thousands of some of his biggest supporters. Does great presidential communicating traditionally include indirectly killing a substantial number of people in your own political coalition that had already lost a popular vote ?
Trump's rare televised interviews mostly followed extended periods of exceptionally terrible press for his presidency’s various scandals and deeds of personal misconduct so he could strategically say something new even more absurd than the previous current debacle du jour and change the national dialogue’s subject from one egregious infamy to another. He’d ramble meanderingly around disjointed ideas, and often stumble into unintentional self-incrimination, like when he admitted that he fired James Comey for not ending the FBI’s investigation into his alleged Russian collusion, which is notable both as obstruction and a crime. Even when Trump snagged Fox News softballs he spilled out word vomit so disjointed and mentally nonlinear that editors had difficulty transcribing his grammar and punctuating his incomplete sentences for print readers to interpret his lackadaisical trains of thought.
For a refresher on Trump’s interview skills, rewatch this hilarious Jonathan Swan interview. Even knowing that Donald Trump is a lunatic village idiot, it’s hard to believe this isn’t a satirical sketch. Every history class in every school from now on should include this interview in the syllabus to dispel the ludicrous myth that Trump was a great communicator president.
His utter inability to articulate ideas clearly or grapple with facts inconvenient for his self-serving illusions of simplicity is a huge mark against his communication skills. He’s capable of only juvenile descriptions of things and people that are skim and superficial in vocabulary. All the world leaders he met as president were “incredible,” and his “great friends,” people he “knew so well,” and, in the case of Kim Jong Un, a scandalous “lover.”
That’s not a joke. For readers of the future: Donald Trump called Kim Jong-un, the despot of an unstable, languishing backwater pariah state led for decades by a totalitarian, hereditary dictatorship long threatening existential, nuclear harm upon the United States, his “lover.” Let that sink in a bit longer… What an absurdly weird thing for a president to say about any leader, let alone a totalitarian dictator half Trump’s age.
Foreign policy is big area of presidential communication. Unsurprisingly, Trump promised unprecedented dealmaking with Dunning-Kruger confidence, and swore Americans would get exhausted from all the winning with blustery self-aggrandizement and vulgar appropriation of patriotism that contrasted greatly with his impulsively deconstructive foreign policy that attempted to unilaterally end the post-war global framework he’s too near-sighted and historically illiterate to understand benefits us somewhat hegemonically still after a century of America orchestrating the Western World. He waxed poetic on how easy and simple trade wars are, as if mercantilism hadn’t been debunked long ago, and failed to win any of them.
Trump’s communication to the global coalition that signed on to the Iran Nuclear Deal was a temper tantrum breaking an American promise to spite the Black President because Obama made fun of his wannabe-emperor lack of presidential clothes during the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a cultural tradition of a light-hearted roast of the country’s top executive like something the ancient Athenians might have thought up in the ancient agora like a memento mori reminding presidents they’re of the people for the people, and we don’t let our leaders turn tyrannical and personalize the state. But, of course, Trump tried to do exactly that on January 6th, after years of personally boycotting the Correspondents’ Dinner because he was afraid of being made fun of again.
Twitter was Trump’s only communicational competency, but he deserves no high grades for his quality of tweets. In demagoguery let’s make him #1, sure, but his fountain of catty tweets spraying out worryingly late into the night and early in the morning about how unfair everyone is to him should not be dignified with praise.
Twitter convenienced Trump with a character limit, and allowed him to communicate to the American people from a safe space where no journalist or anyone else could personally react or follow up on the delusional things he’d write and publish. Twitter was the path of least resistance for him to say dumb shit and always get away with it, without any direct rebuttals against his tiny, fragile ego.
He politically trademarked a neglect for proofreading, poor spelling, irregular grammar, revolutionary use of quotation marks, inexplicable capitalization, actual fake news, logical paradoxes in attempts at legal self-defense, and just so much whiny bitching that wouldn’t stop until he was literally banned from the platform for trying to incite a civil war that’s currently being convincingly prosecuted by the January 6th Committee on prime time television. Do we honor Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens for being great communicators because they convinced a bunch of Americans to violently try to overthrow the government? Such a communication metric ought to praise Confederate politicians much higher than Trump since they convinced many more Americans to commit treason for much longer.
Trump’s tweets weren’t even very often original thoughts, and his Twitter communications tended to conspicuously focus on things discussed by Fox News anchors and their discussion panels during his infantile afternoon “Executive Hours.” Our great communicator president, when he wasn’t golfing every third day of his presidency, maintained the work schedule and lifestyle of a bored, gossipy housewife addicted to daytime television.
Today, which of Trump’s tweets stand out in your memory after so many years of his alleged Twitter brilliance? Anything to compete with the idealistic and immortal rhetoric of Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, or Reagan? Of course not. Trump left behind a legacy of “build the wall!” and other village idiot slogans like “Lock her up!” and “Witch-hunt!” and “No collusion,” as well as bitchy insults like “Low Energy Jeb,” “Little Marco,” “the Failing New York Times,” “Rocket Man,” and “Sad!”
History will preserve forever his Twitter feuds with literally 100s of people, many insignificant to the authority and ceremonial responsibilities of a US president, and his petty insults for award-winning actresses, sports players, cultural icons, governmental colleagues, bureaucratic underlings he himself appointed, and anyone else who failed to contribute 24-hours a day to the little dictator veneration he malignantly craved are a national shame and embarrassment.
Complimenting Donald Trump’s Twitter prowess is like pedantically congratulating the artistry of a toddler throwing food off the table, and, in much the same way, other, more responsible people always had to deal with the consequences of his tweeting. Can we not save our praise of communicatory greatness for people whose communications are worth listening to, and who are not still actively threatening to start a civil war because their father’s brutal emotional unavailability left them psychologically incapable of accepting the idea that they’re the loser their dad incessantly told them they were while growing up?
And let’s not forget that Trump’s tweets were not even paid attention to during his years as president. For four years no Republican in Congress ever seemed to be aware of anything he had tweeted, no matter how controversial! If Trump’s Twitter game was so strong, as is alleged, you’d think his own party’s officials and legislators would have followed them, and been able to share their reactions with extremely curious journalists and media pundits.
Even Truth Social, the dumb Twitter rip-off platform Trump launched, has no idealistic aesthetics beyond maybe a historical echo of Mein Kampf, and it assaults Americans’ intelligence to refer to his posts as “Truths,” which perfectly fits the stereotypical fascist propaganda that everyone mindlessly agrees with whatever he says.
Meanwhile, Trump’s post-presidency rallies continue to be pity-party abominations of communicational absurdity. He communicates almost exclusively the Big Lie, and has nothing to say except that he’s not the loser we saw him be throughout his short political career. Actually, I take that back, because he does occasionally have some novel, village idiot things to say about windmills, showers, and toilet water pressure.
Have any of Trump’s communications been effective for him as a president or political leader? Historians are in immediate agreement that he ranks among the worst in the bottom-five alongside several pre-Civil War do-nothings, though his continuing Big Lie insurrection fomentations threatens to drop him even lower if he incites further violence against the government and American people.
Politically, the sense of cultural paranoia and persecution he sniffed out and further fermented into the toxic MAGA stew of fascist ethno-nationalism reflects more his electoral coalition’s absolute ceiling rather than its floor, and he lost by a historic seven million votes in the last election. His deplorable personality and even worse stewardship of the Federal Government made Republicans lose the House, Senate, and the Presidency in just four short years. What a loser.
So, no, Trump’s communication skills are not impressive, and are certainly not something we should honor. You don’t get points for being a bitch on Twitter and inciting a mob to end the modern world’s oldest democracy.
His capacity to convince culturally-sorry-for-themselves dupes to continue giving him their money with fraudulent claims that the donations would go toward his worthless political projects of racist, divisive, hateful, and violent memorial like his centuries-antiquated wall and his “Stop the Steal” Big Lie coup attempt may have been impressive if he actually used that money to do what he claimed he would, but he just pocketed the cash. Great thief, scammer, and wire fraud perpetrator, yes, great communicator no.
Trump’s only achievement in communication is revealing that he’s America’s biggest monstrosity of combined character defects, and the best caricature of a deranged human being so unhinged that he has been exhausting for satirists to lampoon. I could go on writing for years about what a joke of a human being he is, and did in this book, but it would suffice for this piece to repeat once more that Donald Trump is a village idiot.
Please personally help make sure he stays out of politics and our government for good.
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