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A foreign reporter experiences Trump unedited for the first time


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Remember, somewhere between 39% & 45% of Americans still support this buffoon.

 

He has a significant chance of getting reelected (presuming he's not in jail).

 

 

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As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference

In writing about this not-especially-important or unusual press conference I’ve run into what US reporters must encounter every day. I’ve edited skittering, half-finished sentences to present them in some kind of consequential order and repeated remarks that made little sense.

 

In most circumstances, presenting information in as intelligible a form as possible is what we are trained for. But the shock I felt hearing half an hour of unfiltered meanderings from the president of the United States made me wonder whether the editing does our readers a disservice.

 

I’ve read so many stories about his bluster and boasting and ill-founded attacks, I’ve listened to speeches and hours of analysis, and yet I was still taken back by just how disjointed and meandering the unedited president could sound. Here he was trying to land the message that he had delivered at least something towards one of his biggest campaign promises and sounding like a construction manager with some long-winded and badly improvised sales lines.

 

I’d understood the dilemma of normalising Trump’s ideas and policies – the racism, misogyny and demonisation of the free press. But watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence.

 

 

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This is the thing I’ve never understood.  Have his supporters ever actually “listened” to him????

 

From day 1, he’s been all over the place with obvious “exaggerations” and incoherencies.  His Twitter feed is a testament to “drunk uncle” syndrome.  It’s crazy!  

 

One can can say the news media sensationalizes things (they aren’t wrong), but holy cow!  From the beginning, I could tell this man was obviously a clown.  The fact that the GOP refuses to offer another candidate says a lot about what they think of their “base”.

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Idiot

 

The article had too many good illustrations not to post.  My comments included:
 

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The press conference I tuned into by chance from my New York hotel room was held in Otay Mesa, California, and concerned a renovated section of the wall on the Mexican border.

I joined as the president was explaining at length how powerful the concrete was. Very powerful, it turns out. It was unlike any wall ever built, incorporating the most advanced “concrete technology”. It was so exceptional that would-be wall-builders from three unnamed countries had visited to learn from it.

There were inner tubes in the wall that were also filled with concrete, poured in via funnels, and also “rebars” so the wall would withstand anyone attempting to cut through it with a blowtorch.

The wall went very deep and could not be burrowed under. Prototypes had been tested by 20 “world-class mountain climbers – That’s all they do, they love to climb mountains”(TG: and obviously test boarder walls for real income<_<), who had been unable to scale it.

It was also “wired, so that we will know if somebody is trying to break through”, although one of the attending officials declined a presidential invitation to discuss this wiring further, saying, “Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing it” (TG: Official talking under his breath -" Trump is really an idiot" :blink:) , which the president said was a “very good answer(TG: the president has no idea how dumb his statement was and no idea what should not be disclosed.  No wonder why the Russians enjoy meeting with him in private- either in the WH or one on one Putin and Trump.  Who knows what secrets they have gained from President floppy libs??:dunno)

The wall was “amazing”, “world class”, “virtually impenetrable” and also “a good, strong rust colour” that could later be painted. It was designed to absorb heat, so it was “hot enough to fry an egg on”. (TG: Good a wall we can grill people on. Just what trump wanted)There were no eggs to hand, but the president did sign his name on it and spoke for so long the TV feed eventually cut away, promising to return if news was ever made.

 

He did, at one point, concede that would-be immigrants, unable to scale, burrow, blow torch or risk being burned, could always walk around the incomplete structure, but that would require them walking a long way. This seemed to me to be an important point, but the monologue quickly returned to the concrete

 

 

Walking around the wall - kind of like this

 

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