Bueno
pues ¿qué esperaban? Ciertamente no es un Demóstenes, ni siquiera
un Peje o cuando menos un Castro o Maduro. ¿Qué más quisiéramos,
pero si hay alguien no dotado en las artes del lenguaje para
comunicar objetivamente con rasgos de verdad, liderazgo y verdad,
definitivamente no es el Gran POTUS, DJT.
Tal
parece que hay dos Donald Trump (o será el mismo con mente hendida?
-Esquizofrenia larvada-). Porque cuando lee sus discursos con el
telepromter, tal parece que no se trata de la misma persona. Lo que
si parece ser medianamente cierto es que el Presidente de los Estados
Unidos de América, está fallando constantemente en su labor de
líder de la Nación más poderosa del Mundo, y nos hace temblar con
su insensata peligrosidad.
Los
invito a leer los ingeniosos y acertados comentarios de la apta
periodista y comunicadora Gail Collins en el NYT
Trump Talks and Talks and Talks and …
Gail
Collins AUG.
24, 2017
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President
Trump
Photo
after giving a scripted speech on Monday.
Credit
Al Drago for The New York Times
A
great day of triumph for Donald Trump! The president went to an
American Legion convention Wednesday and read a speech off a
teleprompter. Nothing weird happened. Total victory.
We
now divide the president’s public addresses into two categories.
There are the unremarkable and predictable ones written by someone
else and the ones in which he ignores the script and just says
what’s on his mind, terrifying and confusing all Americans who are
not in his base.
(About
the base. Polls make it very clear that 30 to 40 percent of voters
are going to approve of what Trump does, no matter what. Many of
them don’t mind if he comes on stage and starts talking like Uncle
Fred Who Gets Drunk at Family Dinners. They enjoy Uncle Fred. Some
of them are Uncle
Fred.)
Any
other president who went to a convention of veterans and called for
Americans to “work together” would have gotten no notice
whatsoever. But Trump was coming off his spontaneous appearance in
Phoenix when he frightened the whole country with his rants about
the media and his wild riffs of self-congratulations.
“Now
you know, I was a good student,” Trump ad-libbed at his Arizona
rally. “I always hear about the elite. You know, the elite.
They’re elite? I went to better schools than they did. I was a
better student than they were. I live in a bigger, more beautiful
apartment and I live in the White House, too, which is really
great.”
Gail Collins
American politics and culture.
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president
of the United States is so insecure he finds
it
necessary to brag about his grades in school.” The second is that
we
know
about as much about his actual grades i
school
as we do about his tax returns.
Third,
at the end Trump did seem to realize that if he was going to boast
about his deeply overdecorated penthouse, he should mention that the
White House is nice, too. Particularly since that unfortunate story
about him calling it (The White House)“a real dump.”
It
would be calming to the national psyche if the president refrained
from ever again speaking to the American people about his true
thoughts and feelings. It wouldn’t do anything to improve his
performance in office, but at least we might feel less nervous,
moment to moment.
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The
unfair part, of course, is that when Trump just reads words he’s
been given, people are so relieved he gets way too much credit. Look
at the speech on Afghanistan. The plan Trump unveiled is clearly
never going to improve anything. And he delivered it in a strange
way, staring at teleprompters to the left and right but almost never
looking directly at the TV audience. But still, it had complete
sentences! He did not once mention his own personal wealth or make up
facts about his election victory. The White House basked in glory.
Then
came the rally in Phoenix, an excellent example of how the president
wanders off the written plan and just sort of runs amok.
He
blathered for 77 minutes, dissing the two local Republican senators,
one of whom is suffering from brain cancer. He threatened to shut
down the government if he didn’t get money for his wall. He
revealed that “Washington is full of people who are only looking
out for themselves” and then raced into another paean to
you-know-who.
“But
I don’t come to Washington for me. You know, I’ve had a great
life. I’ve had great success,” he confided to the viewing world.
“I’ve enjoyed my life. Most people think I’m crazy to have done
this. And I think they’re right. But I enjoy it because we’ve
made so much — I don’t believe that any president — I don’t
believe that any president has accomplished as much as this president
in the first six or seven months. I really don’t believe it.”
We
are not going to go into the list of presidents who accomplished
more, since it requires naming everyone who’s held the office since
Warren Harding.
This
is a man who can’t refrain from congratulating himself even when
he’s talking about the weather. “I was over at the Yuma sector,”
he told the folks in Phoenix, describing his trip to meet members of
the Border Patrol. “It was hot. It was like 115 degrees. I’m out
signing autographs for an hour. I was there. That was a hot day. You
learn if you’re in shape if you can do that, believe me.”
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the auditorium was full of people from Arizona. They spend their
lives in ridiculous heat. It did not seem like a group who you wanted
to entertain with a story about how much you suffered signing
autographs when it was “like 115 degrees.”
It
was actually 107. But that’s the least of our problems.
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