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Don’t Be A Moron, Donald Trump Was A TERRIBLE Communicator
Do we honor Jefferson Davis as a great communicator for inspiring the attempted overthrow of democracy? No, so why would we honor Trump?
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Donald Trump is a terrible communicator. Great communicators like to communicate.
Trump’s communications are a toxic spigot of daily grievances and ignorant prejudices like a toddler, not a responsible professional of any job, let alone the former leader of the free world.
As president he eschewed press conferences and favored impromptu ramblings to press gaggles before prescheduled events, usually in front of the loud sound of his helicopter so he could skip questions he didn’t want to answer pretending he couldn’t hear.
He also liked hosting masturbatory political rallies until COVID canceled them in his presidency’s last year, so he transitioned into leading daily White House briefings in which he singlehandedly wrecked America’s handling of the pandemic by lying about the severity of the public health crisis, and offering ludicrous fake COVID cures that made the real medical…
