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9 - Trump’s Spontaneity

from Part V - Feeling Tired

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Roderick P. Hart
Roderick P. Hart
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Everyone has an opinion about Donald Trump’s tweets. Lisa Lampanelli, a professional comedian specializing in racy humor, finds his tweets remarkably disgusting. “I saw Trump be a roastmaster at the Friars Club,” Lampanelli reports, “but he doesn’t have the skill to do this kind of thing with the right intention underneath it. Is it entertaining to some? I don’t find these tweets entertaining in the least. It’s off-putting and it gets to a scary, bully level.”1 Folks working in the District of Columbia agree. “Stop it!” said Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; “the Presidential platform should be used for more than bringing people down.” “This isn’t normal,” echoed her senatorial colleague, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, “it’s beneath the dignity of [the President’s] office.” Trump’s Twitter usage “represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America,” said South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham.2

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Trump and Us
What He Says and Why People Listen
 , pp. 196 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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