Trump’s speech: rambling, unscripted, captivating

Opinion

Regardless of your opinion of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, there is one thing that is undoubtedly true: the man is a master orator.

In a winding, brazenly unscripted, hour-long speech, Donald Trump outlined his trade plans for the country, his hardline stance on immigration, the United States’ unemployment crisis, gun control and international terrorism, all while maintaining his idiosyncratic strangeness and sense of humor.

The common theme: Trump wants to take matters into his own hands. In a campaign he says is “self-funding,” he implied that he would go so far as to call American companies that are outsourcing jobs and personally convince them to bring them back to America by enacting a 35% tax on exports.

Such is Trump’s rationale: the United States’ failures are a matter of poor leadership, and he will be the greatest, most charismatic, most powerful leader the States have seen.

Indeed, “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” Trump said today. (That’s a real quote–verbatim.)

On Mexico and Chynah (commonly called China), Trump said, “Their leaders are smarter than ours. Frankly our leaders are stupid, folks. They’re stupid…. I guarantee you, my IQ is much higher than theirs.”

Trump painted himself as a leader outside the political establishment, calling the official unemployment numbers “phony,” and “developed by politicians to make them look good.”

He also took shots at rival candidate Hillary Clinton, saying, “Hillary does not have the strength or the stamina to become president,” and, “What Hillary did was a criminal act and she shouldn’t be allowed to run,” referring to the thousands of classified emails Clinton sent over unencrypted servers.

All in all, the speech could be summed up by Trump’s entrance. Taking place at a hangar in Port Columbus, the Donald landed his private jet directly in from of the wildly cheering crowd with the word “TRUMP” emblazoned on its side, symphonic music blaring in the background.

His is not a campaign of ideas–it is a campaign of personal strength.

Whether or not that is the cure for America’s problems is up to the voters. We’ll find out come March 15.

— Jack Lynch

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