Donald Trump Finally Sounds Presidential. For 60 Minutes.
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Donald Trump Finally Sounds Presidential. For 60 Minutes.
Government isn’t a speech, and he’s the same as he ever was—and with the same bad ideas for the country.
MICHAEL TOMASKY
03.01.17 1:00 AM ET
OK. There’s no denying that that was a better speech than any of us expected. Mind you, that’s because expectations were so crazy low. There was nothing in the speech about the size of his inaugural crowd (or the size of his anything else), nothing about the losers or fakers in the media, nothing about the failing New York Times, nothing about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lousy ratings. He managed to sound, for the first time, like a real-life president of the United States.
He also did a better job than expected with respect to the human moments. He handled the tribute to William Ryan Owens, the Navy SEAL who was killed in the Yemen raid, much more deftly than I would have thought. Owens’s widow seemed to be moved, talking to her husband in the big upstairs. It was clear that his White House could sense that, after Owens’s father criticized Trump harshly over the weekend, they needed to change that story fast, and he did.
Whether it was complete cynicism or not, Trump changed it, through tonight’s visual. It will lessen the questions about the raid, although it shouldn’t, and that fact speaks to the anomaly at the center of the speech, which is that a lot of what he said in this speech constituted the opposite of what his administration has been doing in its first five weeks and what it’s going to do tomorrow and the next day and the next day.
Take, sticking with the way Trump used the audience members, the young woman in the wheelchair, Megan Crowley, who was diagnosed with a rare illness as an infant and wasn’t expected to live past age five. It was a heart-warming story, that her father fought for her and now at age 20 she’s a student at Notre Dame. (Notre Dame! What could be better as a Republican applause line?)
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paid for? 
Those are a coupla q's I have and the first q is being talked about this a.m. at MSM while the 2nd one no one dares to ask.
I suspect that Crowley's health care was paid for by either ACA or Medicaid. She may have been able to get Medicare early, too, since she no doubt has Soc. Security disability. These are all possibilities unless her parents are 1%ers
