I Interviewed Trump For 5 Hours. Here’s
What He Told Me About ‘Stupid F—er’
McConnell, McCarthy’s Bromance With
Luntz, And The Fake News That Bothered
Him The Most
The Federalist,
by
Mollie Hemingway
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/8/2021 2:12:25 PM
What follows is adapted from three interviews of President Donald Trump for Mollie Hemingway’s latest book “Rigged: How The Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,” out October 12.
“I don’t like her … and I don’t like me.”
Former President Donald Trump was looking at a photo of the two of us that his assistant had just taken on my phone. It wasn’t up to his specifications. We’d just completed the second of three interviews I’d have with him for my new book, “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 10/8/2021 2:30:26 PM (No. 939235)
A charming article about our mercurial DJT. A fun read.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 10/8/2021 2:42:48 PM (No. 939242)
What I'd give to be able to sit down and visit with him for just a few minutes. I can't express just how grateful I am to him for those four years.
He didn't have to do any of it, and it cost him a lot. But he did it. And America was better off for it.
He's a far better man than those who have plagued us in politics for many years.
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Great article. It is interesting to read that our president did not think that China had unleashed Covid on the world intentionally.
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davew 10/8/2021 3:14:10 PM (No. 939268)
Both President Trump and Mike Lindell suffer from the same speech pattern trait that I find irritating but understandable. They both tend to speak in incomplete sentence fragments with multiple concepts streamed together and much of the context left out or clipped. I call it "Picasso speech" because, like Picasso, Trump and Lindell are speaking on topics they have briefly read about or seen on TV and they are trying to convey all the details and every angle of the experience at once before they lose the thought. This is similar to what Picasso and others attempted with the "cubism" school of painting.
I was tempted to compare their speaking to Jackson Pollack's abstract style but this is actually a very precise mathematically based style based on the behavior of chaotic oscillators and not an attempt to express a subjective experience like cubism. In contrast Joe Biden speaks or at least reads in what I would call an "American Gothic" style ala Grant Wood but with entire sections of the piece missing or in the wrong place. He speaks as if he's trying to put together a puzzle and can't figure out where the pieces fit.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/8/2021 3:22:59 PM (No. 939278)
@#4 - And yet Trump is one of the greatest president's in our nations history.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 10/8/2021 3:37:23 PM (No. 939291)
Poster #4, While I haven't really listened to Lindell much so I can't say if he has a 'different' speech pattern from others, I've noticed that President Trump frequently repeats what he says, not in complete sentences but just a few words. I've often wondered if he might be on the autism spectrum .
And yes, poster #5, he is one of our greatest presidents.
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Sully 10/8/2021 3:44:01 PM (No. 939298)
Awesome. I promise you I will buy this book. You can 100% trust Hemingway.
Donald J Trump is a billionaire and a media star. And he relates to regular people easier than your local academic, media person or dem politician. This is what kills them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/8/2021 4:00:27 PM (No. 939306)
FTA: "Again, he was unfazed. 'Some people said they didn’t enjoy the tweets. Sometimes it got to be a bit much,' he admitted, adding that he didn’t even enjoy the last six months of tweeting."
My favorite take-away from the article and it may improve his favorability going forward.
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3XALADY 10/8/2021 4:19:21 PM (No. 939312)
I will admit that I do not listen to PDJT's speeches. It's like he is speaking to first or second graders, so elementary. But I would walk thru fire for him. He was sent by God to save this country and couldn't get it done by himself. thank you, PDJT for loving this country. It is so obvious.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Avikingman 10/8/2021 4:42:58 PM (No. 939322)
Many don't require a sentence to be finished to understand, if you catch my drift....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 10/8/2021 5:18:05 PM (No. 939337)
Interesting analysis, #4. Worth a think.
I'm wondering if Pres. Trump's speech pattern might not simply be a habit he developed of mirroring the listeners he served in his NYC and global real estate and construction career. He talks the way busy people listen who have better things to do than stand there and listen to you talk: in incomplete sentence fragments with multiple concepts streamed together and much of the context left out or clipped ("Picasso hearing" perhaps). It's a signature trait of his marketing prowess.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Imright 10/8/2021 5:25:48 PM (No. 939348)
Loved reading this! Thanks for posting. MAGA!!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 10/8/2021 5:47:13 PM (No. 939362)
I compare The President’s speech style to Robin Williams, who by any measure was brilliant.
I think The President is on the Brilliant Spectrum.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kumoan 10/8/2021 6:07:52 PM (No. 939381)
I am another one that doesn't find The President to be a great speaker, although he is a top rank humanist and patriot. But, now after my father has passed, there is only one man I would lay my life down for willingly, and it is The President. And I ain't even from around here.
God bless The President, and protect him from evil. FJB.
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TruthFetish 10/8/2021 8:33:58 PM (No. 939520)
I will pre-order her book the first chance I get.
Lucianne commenters are awesome!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 10/8/2021 10:10:02 PM (No. 939560)
Love Trump. Love Mollie.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 10/8/2021 10:20:58 PM (No. 939565)
Mollie Hemingway is a favorite reporter. Honest, sensible and has a sense of humor, too.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/8/2021 11:14:35 PM (No. 939579)
Re the dissection/analysis of President Trump’s speech pattern, it can also be typical of someone who has a very quick mind, does not care for those who take forever to get something out because they are wordsmithing. The impatience of a very busy man who can keep many ideas going at the same time. Described as a “quick study”. he was said to not appreciate longwinded staff presentations. Busy men never do. Even Brit Hume, who was no fan, had to admit he admired that PDJT fielded every question reporters had for him. I liked Ivanka’s one word description of him, in response to a question: “Blunt”. When I looked it up: “Uncompromising straightforwardness”… Would that all of our leaders had that quality..
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/8/2021 11:23:23 PM (No. 939583)
I worked for several CEOs of real estate development corporations. Developers of entire communities. Two were especially dynamic and dreaded having to listen to presentations by two classes of professionals, essential to development projects: financial officers and engineers. Both tend to be plodders, detail oriented down to the finest point. sans imagination. Dull. “Get on with it!"
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 10/9/2021 12:15:08 AM (No. 939598)
We love Mollie! She's insightful, has a wry sense of humor, very smart.
I like #4's analysis of Trump's speech patterns comparing them to Picasso's cubist period. All i can see in my mind's eye is the painting in blue (i can't remember the title, Guitarist, i think), but the actual cubist pieces fit better.]
As others have said, i, too, find President Trump's speech patterns difficult to listen to AT FIRST, but after a few lines, a Trumpian rhythm sets in, and it is the peculiar cubist-type of rhythm if i can add a musical angle here.
I have watched virtually every speech/rally from the beginning, after having seen him on Fox and Friends once a week or so for some time. I prefer the academic sort of speeches, talks, lectures. But Trump draws you it. You have to listen through the crazy rhythms and look for the form in the cubist's lines and shapes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Pammie 10/9/2021 7:56:22 AM (No. 939742)
Thank you Mollie Hemmingway for your awesome article on our President Donald Trump! We always stop to read your intriguing articles and look forward to reading your book! We also agree with Reply #16!
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The intro tells little about what is to follow. Hemingway describes the entire occasion, what it was like at Mar-a-Lago, and continues in a free prose account which is sort of a “you are there” account. She has always been pro-Trump, but she really seems to know the pluses and minuses in his personality. She knows he is an interesting man. Unique.