Trump writing own 'short' inaugural speech

[sabra]

Source: CNN

West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is turning his attention Thursday to crafting a "short" but impactful inaugural address designed not to overly burden the thousands of supporters expected to attend next month's ceremony.

"He wants to write the inaugural himself," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who met with Trump Wednesday to discuss, among other things, the upcoming speech on January 20th.

Trump was expected to spend at least part of his day Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, working on the speech, according to officials.
"He doesn't want it to be long," Brinkley said on CNN. "He would like it to be a shorter one. He doesn't want people standing out in the cold."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/politics/trump-writing-short-inauguration-speech/index.html

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[PRETZEL]

1. I'm taking it'll be 144 characters? nt

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. crap - I wanted to say that!

[NastyRiffraff]

24. Great minds! n/t

[Else You Are Mad]

27. I was going to say the same thing!

[applegrove]

46. Brilliant!

[Historic NY]

2. Maybe with ..

http://www.twitlonger.com/

[DesertRat]

4. Maybe he can sing at the inauguration too

[underpants]

10. .

[Bayard]

21. OMG!

I just had coffee shoot out my nose I laughed so hard!

[ailsagirl]

28. I hope you're not at work!

Gotta watch that!

[underpants]

38. I did a spit take when I saw it yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8407453

[mahina]

32. Gogol Bordello should have top billing though.

[DesertRat]

47. lol!

[True_Blue]

50. Hahaha!

[Feeling the Bern]

5. My fellow Earthicans: Grab them all by the pussy. Make America Great Again

blah, blah, yakkety smackety. (Insert lie. another, another). Fucking Messican and Mooslims. Look at me, the greatest. (nice soundbyte that takes ten seconds of analysis to show it's bullshit). In ten years, I'll date all your eight year old daughters.

Make American Great Again again. Here's Ted Nugent. Good night and Trump Bless you.

[7962]

31. Almost lost my drink on that one!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. How many times can he fit "I" and "Me" in a speech?

There must be a limit.

[QED]

36. "I was sired by the great American eagle and foaled by the continental dam."

Your post reminded me of this:

This is the opening sentence of a LTTE written about 1862 by the man who would rename himself Mark Twain. He was parodying a long winded politician of the time. IIRC, the letter ran on then stopped with an "editor's" note that the remainder of the speech couldn't be printed because they had run out of "I"s.

I can't find a link to the whole thing but did find the line in the post title quoted in A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain.

[mercuryblues]

7. To be honest

a short speech is all his little hands can handle, before the start cramping up.

[ailsagirl]

17. Good point!

[BeyondGeography]

8. That reminds me, Brinkley, Beschloss...these guys are embarrassing themselves

Their cherished institutions are going to shit but their lifestyles are at stake so Trump will get the gilded treatment from them.

[underpants]

9. Are they going to stage fights like at his rallies?

Some of those were clearly set-ups

[bucolic_frolic]

11. "I alone"

"accomplished the economic recovery over the last 8 years, all benefits
of which happened after November 8, 2016."

[joewicker_TX]

12. Unofficial copy of the BIG SPEECH!!!!

[ailsagirl]

18. Except one thing

This little lad is cute

[sdfernando]

23. and has bigger hands! /nt

[ailsagirl]

26. Made me LOL at work!!!!!!!!!!

[elehhhhna]

13. "I've been inaugurated. America is great again. Thanks."

[world wide wally]

57. Too fucking long!

[COLGATE4]

14. It has to be short. After all, you can only fit

some many Crayola characters on an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.

[Iggo]

15. Probably writing it on his hand, so...

[PRETZEL]

20. I don't think he know's shorthand nt

[redwitch]

66. !!!!

Clever Pretzel!

[QED]

37. As Caribou Barbie taught him.

[ailsagirl]

16. I have to treat this as amusing

(tho' I still can't believe this is happening)

[True_Blue]

19. He knows all the best words

[Coventina]

22. Rats. I was hoping he'd follow Harrison's example.

[Retrograde]

44. Me too - I was looking forward

to the longest, bigliest, most unending inauguration speech evah! So long that it will still be going on when the inaugural balls started, distracting from the lack of entertainers there.

[NastyRiffraff]

25. Yes, the "thousands of supporters"

must not be "overly burdened" with too many words, even if they're two syllables or less.

Mos of his supporters would be "overly burdened" with the Dick and Jane books.

[HassleCat]

29. Short and to the point

"Hi everybody. Thanks for electing me. Things are gonna be great. You know me. I'm great. Everything I do is great. Nice chatting with you. Great. Just Great."

[mahina]

33. Every time he pokes his head out of maralago and talks to the assembled press as if he is the hotel

Manager, I lose my composure.

How's everybody doing? Is everything ok?

No, not ok, we're losing our system of government, but hopefully some remnant will be retrievable.

You imbecilic orange fool.

[Chasstev365]

30. NOW I HAVE A REASON TO WATCH IT!

[no_hypocrisy]

34. Bullshit. Three days ago, it was announced that Stephen Miller will write it.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-miller-inauguration-speech-232967

Donald Trump and his top advisers have begun mapping out the themes for his inaugural address next month, as the president-elect has tapped Stephen Miller, his incoming senior White House adviser for policy, to write the historic speech.

Early discussions of the address have focused on laying out some of the structural problems facing the country, and then framing Trump’s first-term agenda in more nationalistic than ideological terms. Among the half-dozen areas that Trump is considering issuing a collective call to arms to address are the nation’s education system, infrastructure, border security, the state of the military and the economy, in particular, the outsourcing of jobs.


The choice of Miller, the 31-year-old who wrote most of Trump’s major prepared speeches in 2016, including his Republican National Convention address, which was criticized as overly dark, is no surprise to Trump insiders. Miller played an unusually multifaceted role on the campaign: a behind-the-scenes policy adviser, Trump’s chief speechwriter and a speech-giver himself, becoming a skinny-tie-wearing fixture over the summer at Trump rallies as a warm-up act.

“Steve’s a machine,” Jason Miller, a Trump aide, said of Miller’s prolific writing abilities (the two men aren't related). “I’ve literally seen him knock out three speeches in a day.”

-more-


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikahaas/2016/12/27/trump-choses-stephen-miller-to-write-inaugural-address-n2263852


http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/politics/stephen-miller-inaugural-address/


http://forward.com/fast-forward/358400/stephen-miller-writing-donald-trumps-inaugural-address/

[Blue Shoes]

41. Yea, hes too lazy and too unorganized to do anything major.

Its no surprise hes pawned it off to one of his underlings.

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. Pawns it off but takes all the credit for it.

Crap..now I have to watch the damn thing, cause I know we are all gonna be talking about it.

[MBS]

63. That's his standard M.O.

That's exactly what happened with The Art of the Deal..

[dixiegrrrrl]

64. Problem is, by taking credit for everything,

he leaves his lil thin-skinned self open to criticism as well as praise.

LOL....all that bitching that Obama got from the right is gonna karma all cheeto jesus... .

[MBS]

65. Yes, I'm also very much looking forward to the

criticism he will so deservedly receive.
(Also, as many people have mentioned, lack of attention may drive him even crazier than criticism. On that front, I have high hopes for that rumored "counter-inauguration" concert (live and broadcast on youtube), which will feature a boatload of A-list celebrities to deflect attention from the inauguration.)

Karma. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

The resistance begins!

[C_U_L8R]

35. "I Quit" will do nicely.

[bdamomma]

40. ..................

or may be we should say YOUR FIRED.

[bdamomma]

39. since when is he worried about people

standing in the cold. What total BS he can't freaking talk intelligently. Gone are the days of intelligent speeches.

[PatSeg]

42. "Tremendous"

"Great", "Very great", "Very, very great", "Very tremendous", "Bigly", "Believe me folks, believe me", "Okay?"

[They_Live]

43. "Huge"

"So Huge."

[PatSeg]

48. "So huge"

"You wouldn't believe it!"

[WhiteTara]

45. I wonder who he will plagerize?

[0rganism]

52. iirc, he said something about JFK and Reagan earlier

someone should hook a generator up to their coffins, cos they're about to start spinning real fast -- clean energy for the entire nation, get it while it lasts

[WhiteTara]

62. Of course he would rip off the words

of the JFK who is admired by Democrats and Raygun who is admired by the repukes.A little something for everyone.

[Retrograde]

67. "Ask not what your country can do for you,

ask what your country can do for ME".

[0rganism]

51. maybe he figures if he keeps it short he avoids volleys of rotten fruit

plus tweeting a multipage manifesto looks like a pain in the ass

[jberryhill]

53. It will be about his fingers?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

54. The up side is that, for anyone foolish enough to watch the inauguration,

it won't last very long.

It'll be interesting to see if the Park Service does actual crowd estimates this year, and to see how they compare to either of Obama's.

[stopbush]

55. I don't see how he's going to surpass the eloquence of

"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet."

[A-Schwarzenegger]

56. "Ask not what I can do for the country..."

do i have to finish it?

[world wide wally]

58. I hope he copies Bob Dylan's speech for the Nobel Prize

[mahina]

59. Idiocracy, President Camacho's address:

https://m.

[Turbineguy]

60. He loves

the under-educated.

[madokie]

61. I know one thing for sure

I'll try my damnedests to not read or hear it.


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