Sunday, September 29, 2019

Trump's private speech

Somebody filmed Trump's private speech to UN diplomats and invited guests.  Bloomber has the transcript with analysis.  He whines about the Bidens and impeachment, and talks about being president beyond 8 years, of course, but this may be my favorite passage:

And then they talk about me and I didn’t do anything. I don’t know if I’m the most innocent person in the world.

[Audience: chuckling.]

But you know you look at that—most presidential, they always said I’m the most presidential except for possibly Abe Lincoln when he wore the hat. That was tough to beat.

[Audience: laughter.]

Honest Abe, when he wore that hat, that was tough to beat. But I can’t do that, that hat wouldn’t work for me.

[Audience member, male: “Go ahead.”]

Yeah, I have better hair than him.

But Honest Abe was tough to beat. Remember we used to do that during the campaign? They used to say, when I speak, the crowd would be crazy, I’d go crazy—we’d all go crazy. We had a lot of fun together.

We had 25,000—we’ve never had an empty seat. From the day I came down the escalator, with a potential, unbelievable woman, who became our first lady.

[Audience: applause and cheers.]

We’ve never had—they do, the crowds love her, the people love her.

But we’ve never had an empty seat, not one.

And, he gives his white power fans the sign.  He's taling about Adam Schiff:

He’s got a neck about this big. [Holds right hand up in an “OK” sign.]

By the way, our ambassador to the UN is Kelly Craft.  Trump originally appointed her ambassador to Canada, where she spent half of her time away from the embassy*, back in the States.  She also said she believes the science on both sides of the climate change issue.

She's married to a coal executive who reportedly donated more than $2 million to Trump.  Trump talks about (and to) him in this speech more than Kelly.  They're "gold-level" members at Trump hotels.

*Wikipedia: [P]er State Department rules, an ambassador may only spend 26 work days away from a post.[18] She spent 300 days (more than half of her term) absent from her post.[24] 

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