To anyone who follows Trump’s speeches there was absolutely nothing new in this one. Amazes me to see “experts” on tv saying this speech was substantively different.
Yes. Just like in his speech the night of the NY primary when he referred to Cruz as “Senator Cruz” instead of “Lyin’ Ted” and the media all saw this as some kind of turning point. We’d seen this face of Trump before, and I, for one, wasn’t at all surprised when he went back to calling him “Lyin’ Ted” at the next day’s rally.
I totally agree. The difference was the delivery. Much more presidential.
It is not hard to understand why. As he has made very clear, he puts America first. He is not one of those confused politicians who feels as need to apologize for our heritage; not one who likes to pretend that all people are interchangeable.
Hopefully, the campaign will arrange some television rebroadcasts of the speech in Indiana this weekend. It could help clinch the State.
“To anyone who follows Trump’s speeches there was absolutely nothing new in this one. Amazes me to see “experts” on tv saying this speech was substantively different.”
You are right! From his announcement speech, he had the same ideas.
It is very telling to go back to the announcement speeches of Cruz and Trump to see what issues were important to them at the time.
Terrorism, ISIS, Islam, middle east refugees.
Cruz March 2015
Imagine a president who says “We will stand up and defeat radical Islamic terrorism...” “... and we will call it by its name.”
THAT’s it! But he mentioned CUBA FIVE times.
TRUMP June, 2015
Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They’ve become rich.
They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don’t have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should’ve taken.
So now ISIS has the oil, and what they don’t have, Iran has. And in 19 — and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said — and I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we’ve ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, “Don’t hit Iraq,” because you’re going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they’re taking it over big league.
We get Bergdahl, they get five killer terrorists that everybody wanted over there. We get Bergdahl. We get a traitor.
Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody. I will find — within our military, I will find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur, I will find the right guy. I will find the guy that’s going to take that military and make it really work. Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around.