Tony Lee: Trump needed to give this speech in front of a packed crowd in a city that has been devastated by bad trade deals. Second, Trump took a step forward but needs to keep improving as a candidate. Today, he often sounded like a Congressman at a hearing reading something that was written for him by career staffers. It didn’t feel like he viscerally owned the speech and its themes, which is something he needs to get down before the general public starts paying attention to the general election in a month. Third, Trump’s speeches never have a thread that binds everything together. Trump needs to show some vulnerability and talk about how he was underestimated and dismissed when he tried to get into New York’s real estate market from Brooklyn. He needs to then talk about some of his setbacks and then argue that America/Americans can roar back like he did.
11:37: The elite media tip their hand re: what may resonate with voters by their apoplectic reactions. David Gergen on CNN says Trump’s use of Clinton Cash to attack Clinton was “slanderous.” That overreaction tells you that Gergen knows those attacks may well stick in the general election.
11:35: CNN’s Margaret Hoover, one of the network’s establishment GOP pundits, shows how clueless she is when he says Paul Ryan may have hijacked Trump’s Teleprompter when speaking about Trump’s comments to revitalize the inner cities. There’s a huge difference. Trump is vowing to end amnesty and curb illegal immigration in order to help those in the inner cities get better jobs. He is vowing to make better trade deals to bring jobs back to the inner cities. He said he wants to use the funds dedicated to admitting more Syrian refugees to revitalize the inner cities. Paul Ryan’s “better way” plan for the inner cities is just a bunch of gobblyedgook from a person who has spent his whole life in the politics and still speaks like a career staffer adept at giving power point presentation.
11:28: Trump also vows to support our police and law enforcement because we can’t ever forget the “great job they do.” He also promises to appoint “great Supreme Court Justices.” Trump says parents will start dreaming big for their children again, including parents in our inner cities, when he becomes president. He says Americans are going to start believing in the future of our country and vows to make America “rich” and “safe” again.
11:25: Trump talks about bringing America back. He says massive factories will come back. Inner cities will be rebuilt. He says construction is what he knows and wages will be going up along with “new jobs, jobs, jobs.” Trump says Clinton’s open-borders policies will drive down wages and get rid of even more jobs.
11:20: Clinton can’t say she cares about African-Americans and Hispanics when she wants to bring in millions of workers to compete against them for jobs. Trump says he will change immigration rules to give unemployed Americans opportunities to get good jobs. He vows to stand up to countries that cheat us on trade. Trump also discusses tough ethics rules for the office of the Secretary of State. He says the one common theme in all of his reforms: “It will be America First.” Trump says Clinton’s message is “old and tired.” He says Clinton’s message is that “things can’t change” while his message is things have to change and this may be the only chance to do so. Trump says we need “real change” and “not Obama change.”
11:18: Trump reads a letter from a mother whose child was murdered by an illegal immigrant. Trump says Mrs. Mendoza wrote that “Hillary Clinton, who already has the blood of so many on her hands, is now announcing that she is willing to put each and every one of our lives in harms way. An open-door policy to criminals and terrorists to enter our country. Hillary is not concerned about you or I.” Mendoza believes Clinton needs to go to prison to pay for the crimes against our country. Trump adds that we could rebuild every inner city in America with the amount of money she intends to spend on admitting Muslim refugees.
11:17: Trump says immigration policy “national security is also immigration security and Hillary wants neither.” Trump says Clinton has put forward the “most radical” immigration platform in the history of the United States. He says Clinton wants massive amnesty and complete “open borders” due to lack of enforcement of immigration laws. He says the first victims of her radical policies will be poor African-American and Hispanic workers who need jobs.
11:15: Trump says America’s enemies probably have a “blackmail file” on Clinton, and that is why we can’t elect her to be president. Trump says her “deepest, darkest secrets” are probably in the hands of our enemies because her private server was probably hacked.
11:12: Trump, again citing Clinton Cash, points out that Clinton gave approval to transferring 20% of our Uranium to Russia for $125 million in donations to her Clinton Foundation. Trump also points out that Clinton took millions from countries that oppress women and gays and suggests she set up a private server to conceal her private dealings.
11:09: Trump: Clinton refuses to acknowledge the threat posed by radical Islam. He slams her for wanting a 500% increase in Syrian refugees while hundreds of immigrants and their children have been convicted of terrorism. Trump says he only wants to admit people who “share our values and love our people.” Trump says Clinton wants to bring in people who want women enslaved and gays put to death. He says Clinton “may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the United States.”
11:06: Trump: Clinton has opened the “Pandora’s Box of radical Islam.” Trump says ISIS threatens us because of the decisions Clinton has made along with President Obama. He says ISIS also threatens peaceful Muslims across the world. Trump says Clinton’s bad judgment started with her decision to support the Iraq War and learned nothing from Iraq. Trump says Clinton “rushed us into war in Libya.” He says Clinton lacks the “judgment” and “temperament” to lead the country and should not be president “under any circumstances.”
11:03: Trump says Clinton’s foreign policy has “unleashed ISIS across the world.” Trump says Ambassador Stevens was left to die while Clinton was sleeping. Trump then blasts Clinton for lying about Benghazi. Trump says “it was a different world” before Clinton was sworn in and then “in four years, Sec. Clinton almost singlehandedly destabilized the entire Middle East.” Trump says thanks to Clinton, Iran is now the dominant power in the Middle East and on the road to nuclear weapons.
10:59: Trump says Clinton’s performance as Secretary of State was “disgraceful.” He also says China has taken billions and billions of dollars of our intellectual property while Clinton gave China our best jobs. Trump mentions Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweitzer’s Clinton Cash book and says Clinton gets rich while making you poor. Trump says Clinton “sold out” our country to Beijing and points out that Clinton has been one of the top proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump says that Clinton is pretending to be against the deal and mention that she deleted a section from her book where she effusively supports the deal. Trump says that the government could find Clinton’s emails if it really wanted to. Trump says if Clinton is elected, she will adopt the Trans-Pacific Partnership and we will lose our “economic independence for good.” He says TPP will be worse than NAFTA. Trump says he wants trade deals that are great for the country and workers.
10:57: Trump says “we have to make America rich again.” Trump says our country will be great again when we start making its own products again and bring back its manufacturing base. Trump points out that one of the major bills that George Washington signed dealt with the encouragement and protection of manufacturing jobs. Trump also quotes Lincoln re: protecting the country’s manufacturing base.
[Why is Trump not giving this address in one of the areas impacted by NAFTA?]
10:56: Trump says Clinton thinks she’s “entitled” to the office. Trump says his response to Clinton’s “I’m with her” campaign slogan is “I’m with you, the American people.” Trump says Clinton thinks “it’s all about her.” Trump says the country lost its way when it stopped putting the American people first. Trump says we’ve got here because we went from “Americanism” to “globalism” all to the detriment to the American worker and the American economy. “This is not a rising tide that lifts all boats,” Trump says. “This is a wave of globalism that wipes out our middle class and our jobs along with it.”
10:55: Trump says the special interests “own” clinton. Trump says Clinton doesn’t have the “temperament” or the “judgment” to be president.
10:53: Trump says this election will decide whether we’re ruled by the people or the politicians. Trump promises to end the special interest monopoly in D.C. Trump says Clinton has “perfected the politics of personal profit and even theft.” He says Clinton ran the State Department like a “personal hedge fund” while doing favors for oppressive regimes in exchange for cash.
10:52: Trump, now defending his businesses, says he started off in Brooklyn with a “small” loan and now has an empire worth $10 billion. Trump says he is running for president to end the unfairness and put the American worker first. “We’re going to put America First, and we’re going to make America great again,” Trump says.
10:50: Trump calls Clinton a “world class liar.” Trump attacks Clinton for her “phony landing in Bosnia.” He says Brian Williams’s career was destroyed for saying much less.
10:48: Trump says we can’t fix a rigged system by counting on the same insiders who rigged it in the first place. Trump asks Sanders’s supporters to join his movement so “we can fix the system” together. “This includes fixing all of our disastrous trade deals,” Trump says. Trump says the “whole economy” is rigged in addition to the political system.
10:45: In New York (why is he not in a swing state like Ohio or at least Florida?), Trump says he is running for president to give back to the country that has been “so very good to me.” Trump says only he can fix the country’s problems like its crumbling infrastructure and bad trade policies.
@ bernard ross:
I agree with Bernard Ross AND Arnold Harris.
I give D.J. Trump the following marks for this speech.
CONTENT: A+[is there anything higher than an A+, if so, that is what he gets]
PRESIDENTIAL DEMEANOR: A+
I watched all 41 minutes of Trump’s New York City speech t today. It was the strongest and most focused political takedown that I have seen or heard since the 1948 campaign in which Harry Truman smashed three opposing candidates: Senator Strom Thurman and his Southern segregationist “Dixiecrat” Democrats; former Vice President Henry A Wallace’s hard-core leftist Progressive Party, and Thomas Dewey’s second unsuccessful Republican Party campaign for the US Presidency.
Truman, using the Pullman sleeper presidential car which had been built for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, took his campaign to big and little communities all across the USA, and largely ignored the elitist political class.
There was nothing about today’s Trump speech that diverged from so-called presidential demeanor. Even so, he has taken back from Hilary Clinton the strategic initiative in this campaign.
It is apparently well-known that Hillary Clinton has avoided any kind of press conference for more than 200 days. But unless she intends to avoid altogether any of the usual and expected presidential candidate debates, she has to appear together with her nemesis, just her and Trump on a flood-lighted stage, seen and heard by the largest remote audiences in human history, where that man will mercilessly hammer her into the ground like a fence post.
I have been waiting a long, long time for a presidential campaign such as this.
Arnold Harris, Outspeaker
I feel confident that the muslim brotherhood easily hacked the info from hillary’s emails on the comings and goings of stevens…. and that hillary is likely, along with huma, responsible for the murder of Stevens and the 2 soldiers. Huma could even give them the heads up on when to hack or give them the password…. if they even had one. I dont understand why no one ties that murder with the hillary email scandal… they obviously knew when he would be there. They probably got his dining schedule and itinerary and everything else they needed from that email server. Even more reason for her to distract the public from her involvement and crime with the fake video fairy tale.
donald is so right again, an almost unbeleivable level of corruption and lies at the highest level… but more corrupt are all those democrats who are covering up theirs and her crimes. Their needs to be a purge that sends them all to jail, in good old soviet style.
Folks thought the GOP and conservatives were pro privacy and against gov meddling.
If they kept out and profiled muslims they would not need all this permission to spy…. on second thought letting in the muslims gets them the spying permission they want.
LOL, I think Trump made a stealth jihad… I cant see the establishment GOP supporting that approach after funding rubio, kasich, cruz and Jeb to say the opposite.
@ lsatenstein:
from this first conclusion I already feel it is a load of BS:
the cross border trade is badly in our disfavor and there is no reason to continue that downward path. I do not agree that foreign direct investment will be greatly reduced because if you want to do business in the US you will need to invest here.. if not then an american company based here will do it. Absolute rubbish that pulling back from globalization will hinder growth… it is globalization which reduced our growth and caused our depression.
I think moody’s is working for the usual suspects who gain from the plight of ordinary americans and move offshore while buying pols to allow then to keep selling in america with no investment or upside to them selling here. Higher prices, higher wages, more collected taxes from more american business will all combine synergetically to bring growth and investment at home.
these BS artists would usually be telling us how the lower taxes will bring more investment and growth. The key to the growth is stopping the hemorhaging of our economy to foreigners whether illegally brought here by corrupt corporations or whether intentionally shipped out by bought pols lying to their constituents about the myth of lower prices producing a bigger economy…. when in fact all it did was allow corporations to make huge profits, moving the profits offshore, and having protected status to sell to an ever dwindling economy. If you bought trickle down you will love this bullshiite story.
Let us not forget that the biggest fastest growing successful economy on the planet today is the centrally planned, highly protectionist, economy of communist china where the gov has a stake and influence in even the “private” Chinese corps AND NOT the trickle down capitalist free market economy of the US which is a massive failure compared in the same time period with communist china… demonstrating how capitalists preferred building red china to building america.
I disagree… I think his new tone worked well for his anti hillary segments…. I think those segments were powerful and compelling and should make everyone wonder how she could be pres.
I disagree, Trump has had plenty of personal segments… he needs to elucidate more perinent facts as he did with hillary today… he needs to get out more specific info on his plans, beyond saying how great they will be…. e.g. on obamacare repeal he needs to be more specific. because when you shake the apple tree people affected want to know how the apples will fall. I think his tone improved. He is great at getting hillary but people will want more about what he will do and he should tone down on the boasting.
Regardless of how Trump does his exposure of hillary in this manner is very necessary for the nation… the stench of kickback corruption is so strong its amazing that even her own party supports her and keeps her out of jail.
I liked his comment about those coming here need to “love the american people” as opposed to the muslims who hate us.
Good comment that the cost of the muslim refugees could rebuild american inner cities which establishes that the muslim refs are stealing from americans with needs.
I prefer america first to making america great again as a motto because americans have always been last… it should be americans first.. with the s on the end.
Just read this
https://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/2016-06-17-Trumps-Economic-Policies.pdf