Donald Trump's claim that he's writing his own speech isn't just BS it's flimsy, transparent B.S.

[DonViejo]

That photo of Trump "writing" his speech on a blank notepad is just lazy, even for authoritarian propaganda

GARY LEGUM



The picture says a great deal. The future president seated at a desk at home, pen poised over a pad of paper, conjuring up the soaring rhetoric of the address he will deliver to the nation when he is sworn into office in a few weeks’ time. It will be a great speech, terrific really, the antidote to an often contentious and angry election. He will speak to a country’s aspirations for itself, its patriotism. He will remind the people that he is the person who will heal the nation, fix its health care and crumbling infrastructure, bring back all the jobs the people could ever want.

It is a heavy burden he carries in writing this speech and in leading this country. You can see it in the look of intense concentration on his face as he stares into the middle distance, searching his internal thesaurus for the perfect touch that will kick off his reign and inscribe his inaugural address alongside the greatest in the nation’s history, taking its place with “Ask not what your country can do for you” and “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Of course the picture is all bullshit — as are the words that Donald Trump tweeted out with it on Wednesday: “Writing my inaugural address at the Winter White House, Mar-a-Lago, three weeks ago. Looking forward to Friday.”

We know it is bullshit because of the way Trump is bending the notepad up at the corner, as if to conceal that nothing is written on it. We know it is bullshit because he seems to be sitting at the receptionist’s desk at Mar-a-Lago and “writing” with a Sharpie. (Have you ever tried to do that?) We know it is bullshit because three weeks ago, at the time he was supposedly writing the speech, his transition team announced that Stephen Miller, the Trump aide who wrote most of his major speeches during the campaign, is crafting this one as well, possibly with Steve Bannon.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/01/19/donald-trumps-claim-that-hes-writing-his-own-speech-isnt-just-b-s-its-flimsy-transparent-b-s/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Every time he says something, and I mean EVERY time, patriots need to remind people

that he never, and I mean never tells the truth.

Someone needs to say that every single time he opens his mouth and unless we are discussing a football score, the weather or time of day, it is an almost certainty what comes out of his mouth will be wrong or a lie or both.

[cilla4progress]

2. I hope he will be interrupted

Repeatedly.

Sham democracy.

[subterranean]

3. The photo does appear to have been taken at Mar-a-Lago.

Literally everything else in the photo and tweet is fake.

[louis-t]

4. How did he get the tile from the steam room on the Titanic?

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. He's pretending to be Obama.

A competent speech writer and inspirational speaker.

Good luck with that, Assface!

[Wounded Bear]

6. Trump is flimsy, transparent BS....nt

[Bengus81]

7. Did they figure out that crap looking tile

is at his house or over at the jewelry shop in PB??

[drray23]

8. Maybe he is writing things like

Biggly, believe me, amazing, etc... all important keywords he wants the speech writer to incorporate in the actual speech.

[spanone]

9. liar-in-chief

[Stellar]

10. Trump writing his speech...

[Initech]

11. He's practicing his A's.