

“I have argued to him publicly and privately that he ought to use a script more often,” he said. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke about Trump with Bloomberg News. Related: Obama’s Risky Decision to Endorse Clinton Before FBI Probe Is Concluded Near the end of the speech, Trump in one breath went from a call for respect for police and law enforcement personnel to a promise to impose new ethics rules that would apply specifically to the secretary of state. The speech included other oddities, like: “We have to take care of our neighbors, because right now our neighbors are not being taken care of.”

It was almost as though a sentence from a foreign policy speech somehow got dropped into the middle of a set of remarks on religious freedom, and Trump, Ron Burgundy-like, just read right through it. We must continue to forge our partnership with Israel and work to ensure Israel’s security.” Friday evening, during a Charlotte, North Carolina, speech, he turned the metaphor into reality, personally dismantling his teleprompters after they malfunctioned. These are the foundations of our society. Donald Trump declared the shackles have been taken off as Republicans began defecting in the wake of his boasts about sexual assault. “It’s really the people who go to church, who work and who work in religious charities. Related: 7 Ways Paul Ryan’s National Security Plan Challenges Donald Trump Trump promptly moved on to “the importance of faith to United States society.” If that was supposed to be a walk-back of his attacks on Curiel, it wasn’t a particularly convincing one. If I win we’re going to bring the nation together.” We’re going to bring our nation together. Freedom of any kind means no one should be judged by their race or their color or the color of their skin. The right of people of faith to freely practice their faith. Related: Dump Trump? Some Republicans Are Searching for a Way “So important,” he said, then added, “The happiest people are the people that have that great.religious feel and that incredible marriage.” The thrice-married Trump said that one of his goals as president would be to reinforce “marriage and family as the building block of happiness and success. The relatively brief appearance was marked by clunky non-sequiturs, awkward pauses and weird phrasing. Following remarks from former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, who roamed the stage speaking extemporaneously, technicians at the Faith and Freedom event brought out the transparent screens in advance of Trump taking the stage.īut something about Trump’s remarks seemed.off. The Battle of Fort McHenry took place in 1814, when Americans repulsed a British attempt during the War of 1812 to take over Baltimore.The teleprompters were, literally, brought out for Trump again on Friday. CNN Donald Trump ran into problems Thursday as he began delivering a speech outlining his economic vision for the country when he noticed the teleprompter was not working. Mr Trump then proceeded in a more chronological fashion, mentioning the Civil War and the world wars. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant." And at Fort McHenry, under the rockets' red glare, it had nothing but victory. The White House did not release the text of the speech that had been prepared for him so it is not known what he meant to say.Īs a light rain fell, he told the crowd about 15 minutes before the end of his event: "The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown."Īfter an unintelligible reference to an army at the "ramparts", he went on: "It took over the airports. He added: "I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter." "Right in the middle of that sentence it went out." "The teleprompter went out," Mr Trump said yesterday. He segued from the War of Independence to modern times and back to the War of 1812 so fast that it seemed he thought George Washington's forces seized airports, ages before airplanes existed - though he did not state that was his belief. Mr Trump's recitation of highlights from American history in his Fourth of July speech detoured into a mash-up of wars and centuries.

On one of the rare occasions that President Donald Trump stuck to the script, he says the script failed him.
