Atlanta mayor, asked if Trump can deliver a unifying message: He's "capable of reading one."

[highplainsdem]

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ATL Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms asked right now on CNN if President Trump is capable of delivering a unifying national message:

“I think he is capable of reading one.”

Editing to add a CNN New Day tweet with a 6+ minute video clip of the interview. The comments above start at 5:18:

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Yeah, Trump. Get out there and read it like a hostage video...

[Cha]

2. Booom! I'm not sure about that, though.

Mahalo, Mayor Bottoms & hpd~

[lagomorph777]

10. I think she's too generous.

[catrose]

11. Exactly. I've never seen any evidence that he can read.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Toss in some real big words and he'll botch it.

[ZenDem]

21. Big words...

...like equality, brutality...hamburger.

[Proud liberal 80]

4. I disagree with the Mayor

I don’t think he can even read one.

[Blue Owl]

5. He'll be off-script by the second sentence

whining about Obama and what a persecuted victim he is

[Harker]

6. He could tell everyone how perfect

his response is, and that the death and destruction would've been much greater without his expert involvement.

[Initech]

7. That would require him to have compassion and empathy.

Two things he gloriously and proudly lacks.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. If they keep the vocabulary simple enough I suppose.

[Submariner]

9. Reading a statement calling for unity doesn't mean diddly-squat

if you don't mean it, if your heart is not in it. She must be dreaming if she thinks anything trump can say can sooth wounds even if he's capable of reading one.

[NJCher]

12. touche, mayor

nuance is good. It means he won't understand the joke.

[fishwax]

13. I think she overestimates him

[cstanleytech]

14. I disagree that he is capable because he would turn it all out to be about him and then

he would devolve further into rambling over a coup and the persecution he feels just because Putin is on his speed dial.

[Collimator]

15. That was a scalpel incision.

Brilliant. So sharp, the "slicee" doesn't feel it at first.

I agree with the general sentiment, though. The prepared statement would have to include very small words. And Trump's rendition of such would be wooden and blatantly insincere.

Also, the only way to keep him from going off script for something like that would be to drug him or rig him up to electrodes that would buzz if a single word --written in GIANT letters--was misread or added. [Pardon me while I smile blissfully at a certain image in my brain.]

[lpbk2713]

16. But just barely.

He'll follow his finger along the page. And if his earphones go out he's in a lot of trouble.

[rickyhall]

17. Traitor Trump allowing all this chaos to take down our country for Putin...

And making money in the process. LOCK HIM UP FOR TREASON.

[Mike 03]

18. The Charlottesville hostage video (his second Charlottesville statement) is what happens

when the president reads a speech he doesn't believe a word of, written for him by somebody who doesn't believe a word of it either.

Whatever "good" it might do will be undone by the next tweet or press spray.

[sarge43]

19. "capable of reading one."

The evidence doesn't support that.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Trump is not capable of reading what is front of him.

[RainCaster]

22. Even if he COULD read one, who in his administration could write it? Stephen Miller?

Yeah, that would be a truly unifying message.
Lotsa dog whistles there!

[milestogo]

23. He can just barely read on a good day..