{"id":120106,"date":"2024-10-30T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120106"},"modified":"2024-10-30T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:31:45","slug":"election-2024-how-donald-trumps-rhetoric-has-grown-darker-and-windier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120106","title":{"rendered":"Election 2024: How Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric has grown darker and windier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>DULUTH, Ga. (AP) \u2014 No scene has dominated U.S. politics since 2015 quite like <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> on stage, waxing on for an hour-plus in front of a chorus of red \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hats.<\/p>\n<p>The stream-of-consciousness routine, the interrupting one of his thoughts with the next, is not a polemic Cicero or Lincoln would recognize. The former president and Republican nominee calls his style of speech \u201cthe weave,\u201d whipsawing from dystopian warnings to light-hearted storytelling to policy pronouncements. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou make a speech, and my speeches last a long time because of the weave, you know, I mean, I weave stories into it,\u201d Trump explained last week to popular podcaster Joe Rogan. \u201cIf you don\u2019t \u2014 if you just read a teleprompter, nobody\u2019s going to be very excited. You\u2019ve got to weave it out. So you \u2014 but you always have to \u2014 as you say, you always have to get right back to work. Otherwise, it\u2019s no good. But the weave is very, very important. Very few weavers around. But it\u2019s a big strain on your \u2014 you know, it\u2019s a big \u2014 it\u2019s a lot of work. It\u2019s a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the closing weeks of his <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/election-2024\">third presidential campaign<\/a><\/span>, Trump\u2019s presentation has grown as disjointed as ever and notably darker. But the crowds keep coming, cheering his nationalistic populism, laughing at the insults and chanting along, fists raised, with his benedictory pledges to make America strong, proud, healthy, wealthy and, of course, great again. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s speeches, while never the same, all employ consistent devices and themes. He wields humor, braggadocio, anecdotes, grievances and grand promises. There are non sequiturs, fantastical falsehoods and withering attacks on opponents. He sprinkles in vulgarities and superlatives. There are even the occasional stints read from the teleprompters he mocks when any other politician uses them \u2014 and then claims that he doesn\u2019t use teleprompters or doesn\u2019t need them. <\/p>\n<p>Vice President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a><\/span>, Trump\u2019s Democratic opponent, encourages voters to see him in person, suggesting doing so only affirms that he is erratic and unfit for office. Other critics compare his extended showmanship to authoritarian leaders. Or they argue \u201cthe weave\u201d is simply cover for the cognitive decline of a 78-year-old who would be the oldest newly sworn U.S. president in history.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a study of \u201cthe weave,\u201d deployed on one night last week in suburban Atlanta.<\/p>\n<h2>Epic entrance and just enough details \u2014 even lies \u2014 make the case<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps the most important moment is Trump\u2019s entrance. His walkout music, a device that evokes his brief turn as a professional wrestling promoter, is Lee Greenwood\u2019s \u201cGod Bless The U.S.A.\u201d The former president stands on stage, silent and serious, as the crowd sings along. <\/p>\n<p>At a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/turning-point-election-2024-donald-trump-2b3580134a6b19dff18771c3fdb0f11a\">recent Turning Point USA rally<\/a><\/span> in Duluth, Georgia, pyrotechnics and large video screens flanking him at center stage added to the effect, as his on-screen likeness towered over the crowd. Trump looked out over thousands of cellphones recording the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>With the last notes of Greenwood\u2019s opening hymn, Trump immediately relaxed and praised his audience as \u201cthousands of proud, hardworking Americans and patriots, which is what you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, in a more formal tone he seemed to shift to the prompters: \u201cI\u2019d like to begin by asking a very simple question. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. AP's Role: The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s the famous question Republican Ronald Reagan used to defeat Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980, and Trump uses it as a way to tie Harris to President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a><\/span>. But as soon as the crowd in Duluth yelled \u201cno,\u201d Trump moved to sweeping promises, hyperbole and superlatives that doubled as indictments of Biden and Harris.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. AP's Role: The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI will end inflation. I will stop the invasion of criminals into our country,\u201d he pledged, suggesting all migrants are criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to fix our nation fast,\u201d he said. \u201cAmerica will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer and stronger than ever before. This election is a choice between whether we will have four more years of incompetence, failure and disaster, or whether we will begin the four greatest years in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Harris aren\u2019t just bad, in Trump\u2019s language. He called them \u201cthe worst president\u201d and \u201cthe worst vice president\u201d ever. Harris, he warned, would \u201cdestroy your family\u2019s finances forever.\u201d He blames Harris alone for \u201can open border,\u201d taking liberties with immigration and crime statistics and suggesting, falsely, that the vice president singlehandedly controls U.S. immigration policy. <\/p>\n<p>He slipped in that Harris \u201cgot no votes\u201d \u2014 a reference to her becoming the Democratic nominee after Biden dropped out following party primaries. \u201cTherefore,\u201d Trump insisted, \u201cshe is a threat to democracy\u201d \u2014 a Trumpian staple projecting onto his opponents their most aggressive attacks against him.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he was done in Duluth, he had lampooned Harris as a \u201clow-IQ individual\u201d and \u201cnot a smart person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands laughed at each broadside.<\/p>\n<h2>Transitions and accuracy are never necessary<\/h2>\n<p>Trump does not speak in a linear pattern as he builds to a crescendo. From his first Harris takedowns, he moved to expressions of compassion for Hurricane Helene victims and then jarringly to one of his favorite subjects: his public standing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are with you and we are praying for you \u2014 the polls, despite everything. The polls,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you see what\u2019s happening here? Here, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee? And Georgia. The polls. The polls are through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, during an audible crowd lull, he dropped in his signature \u201cMAGA\u201d slogan to elicit cheers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a nice crowd this is!\u201d he answers with a chuckle. \u201cWhat a nice crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He bounced back to the prompter for numbers framing inflation\u2019s effects on U.S. households. He asked, \u201cshould I sue\u201d CBS and \u201c60 Minutes\u201d for, in his words, manipulating Harris interview answers that were \u201cfrom the loony bin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s election interference and fraud,\u201d he said, projecting charges that are part of felony criminal cases against him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump mocked Harris for saying she will raise taxes, but misrepresented her proposals as applying universally. (She targets corporations and the wealthiest individual filers.) Trump\u2019s 2017 tax cuts, meanwhile, were \u201cthe largest tax cuts in history,\u201d he said. (A charitable interpretation, at best, that ignores inflation.)<\/p>\n<h2>Specifics, though, are not the bottom line<\/h2>\n<p>Timothy and Amanda Browning reached different conclusions about Trump\u2019s style after driving from their Georgia mountain town of Lula to attend their first Trump rally. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked it, because it shows how authentic he is,\u201d said Timothy Browning. \u201cThere are lulls \u2014 but you\u2019ve got to stick with him because there\u2019s always a zinger coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Browning laughed as she recalled leaning over to her husband to whisper that Trump \u201csure could use a speechwriter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, the co-owners of an event space and catering business in Lula reaffirmed their loyalties to the former president. <\/p>\n<p>Timothy sported a T-shirt that had a sexist insult of Harris coined by some conservatives after Biden named her his running mate in 2020. Browning said, though, that he does not consider himself, Trump or the former president\u2019s supporters angry. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Brownings keyed on Trump\u2019s first-term economy and his pledges for an encore term. Talking about their business, they recounted specific price increases they\u2019ve seen since pandemic-era inflation. They were not interested in pandemic supply chain interruptions or Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine roiling world oil markets. Trump, they said, presided over a better situation for them than Biden and, by extension, Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Browning summed up his takeaway in Trumpian terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear him,\u201d Browning said, \u201cputting America first.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-rally-rhetoric-weave-kamala-harris-a4ac05f3c67c80e8536c7ebe0e664866\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DULUTH, Ga. 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