Speech Steeped in Hypocrisy

[struggle4progress]

DAVID FRUM 2:55 PM ET

... Trump’s speech to the nation after the Las Vegas atrocity .. was steeped in hypocrisy. He is the least outwardly religious president of modern times, the president least steeped in scripture. For him to offer the consolations of God and faith after mass bloodletting is to invite derision. “It is love that defines us,” said President Trump, and if we weren’t heartbroken, we would laugh.

... Trump looked shifty, nervous, and false. Speeches are watched as well as heard, and the viewer saw a president who wished he were somewhere else because he had been compelled to pretend something so radically false to his own nature ...

For once, Trump read the speech exactly as written. Perhaps his aides talked him into it. Because Trump is not a good reader, he read the speech wrong. And because it sounded wrong, he looked bad ...

... Cut the God talk. It’s insulting to those who believe, and no comfort to those who grieve. Cut the appeal to national unity; it rings false from a president who just two days ago was accusing homeless hurricane victims of looking for a handout. Trump voters—there are still many of those—liked it that with him, what you saw was what you got. Be real. Be true. Even Donald Trump must have something authentically human within him. Unearth that, and let it speak. He will never be a compassionate man, but even he cannot be so thoroughly empty and remote as he seemed today.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/a-speech-steeped-in-hypocrisy/541758/

Frum is still in denial: The Don is really that empty and remote

[malaise]

1. Even Donald Trump must have something authentically human within him

He doesn't

[loyalsister]

6. Sure he does

Humans can be cruel and mean. He excells in displaying our ugliest tendencies. The sad thing is, I think it is deep and authentic.

[octoberlib]

2. Trump was getting a lot of accolades for that speech but I thought it was bullshit and

just a little creepy. He sounded like he didn't mean a word of it. Stephen Miller is a horrible speechwriter.

[arthritisR_US]

3. Frum really is. I agree 45 is empty and remote but I would

add, dangerously ugly inside.

[struggle4progress]

4. CNN scrambles to glorify Las Vegas speech

By Erik Wemple
October 2 at 1:58 PM

... "Look, pitch perfect from the president right there," said John King, anchor and chief national correspondent for CNN. "I'm sure already there are some people out there because of the polarized environment we live in who won't like something they heard or won't trust something they heard or won't find truthfulness or credibility in something their president just said. I would hope that they would take a breath and let the president have his piece here, in the sense that he came out, he said he wanted to unify the country.”

There was no asterisk on King’s words to indicate that he was grading on the curve. Nor does the "polarized environment" bear the blame for the president’s lack of credibility. His lies and untruths do ...

Jeff Zeleny, when his analytical turn came up, said, "The president clearly, as John said, striking a pitch-perfect tone."

And analyst David Chalian: "That's everything you would want to hear from a president of the United States, everything that you wanted to hear there. I agree with what John and Jeff were saying — this was certainly pitch perfect" ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/10/02/pitch-perfect-cnn-scrambles-to-glorify-trumps-las-vegas-speech/?utm_term=.93dfaf2e4c8a

[arthritisR_US]

5. They've been driving me to red anger today! Their BS

normalizing and humping of the orange shitgibbon is disgusting and a disgrace to their so called "profession".

[ban1941]

7. I'm with you.

Those reporters are just as hypocritical as Trump.They can't possibly believe that he was being sincere, much less , presidential.

[secondwind]

10. Barf 🤢

[spanone]

8. there's not a Christian cell in his body

[uponit7771]

9. "Trump looked shifty, nervous, and false", that's his whole squad

[czarjak]

11. In the beginning...

"I'm an Evangelical", "I'm a great Christian", lies from the start.