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Trump had a freaking CUE CARD to help him remember to say "I hear you"

JackA said:
Really? Can you imagine FDR needing one, or Truman, or Nixon, or Kennedy, or....any other president? I can't. Well, Ford maybe.
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Wait, wait, wait...FDR? OK...what words and signs of empathy did he give when he rounded up Americans of Japanese descent? I love FDR so much because the left's worship of such a horrible person is such a great example of their hypocrisy and empty rhetoric.
 
Did Obama ever use a teleprompter? Please get a better argument
 
Trump has difficulty expressing sympathy and empathy. So, it would make sense that he would write down the right things to say.

Better to have stuff written down, say them right and get ridiculed for having the notes...
...then NOT write them down, say the wrong thing and end up being keel-hauled by the media lynch mob.
 
Cardinal said:
When first saw that I immediately doubted its authenticity. Reporters, it would appear, have much better equipment than I do.

I assume that somebody wrote that for him?
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That's not his writing...and those are certainly not phrases that he would come up with by himself!
 
Trump saw the event as a theatrical production, what cue cards are for. Could not have been more different from what the victims there experienced.
 
Ikari said:
Hmm, I mean there have been speech writers for such a long time now. Presidents usually use teleprompters to make sure that they say the right things, there's not much left in politics that would be completely unscripted. Heck, even those "town hall meetings" have screened and scripted questions. Plus given Trump's penchant for going off message or saying controversial things, he had a card of key points and phrases to state. I wouldn't have imagined that this would have been any other way, really. Something like this, I wouldn't fault Trump over. There's enough wrong with his administration that we don't need to nitpick on something like this. In fact, if this were truly the greatest grievance we had to deal with as it relates to his administration, we'd be sitting pretty right now.
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But to need a note to remind him to say "I hear you" in response to those who have lost sons and daughters in a senseless mass shooting? Come on!

I'd saw what's happening here is that you - like almost all of us here - have and instinctively understand the need for empathy...and so it's difficult for us to grasp that some others simply don't have empathy. I might have the same problem if I hadn't had to deal with an honest-to-goodness narcissist in the workplace for a couple years. The story I like to tell is how this guy who was my subordinate (and who was certainly very smart and was too aware of his charisma and good looks) deliberately tried to end my career in the Navy - not because he hated me (he didn't), but because I was in his way. He actually wanted to end my career because he believed - perhaps rightly - that it would have furthered his own career! He failed, and later wound up in trouble himself (which had nothing to do with me) and was kicked out out of the Navy. On his last day, as he was walking around shaking everyone's hands, he shook my hand as if we had been the best of friends. I wished him well - it was the professional thing to do - but it was as even though he knew that I knew that he'd tried to ruin my career, I shouldn't - in his eyes - be offended for him trying to do so. It was as if he thought that I should have understood that he was a superior person and that it was simply nonsense that I should have ever disagreed with him, much less be offended at his words and actions.

He simply had no empathy - he certainly knew the definition of the word, but the deeper meaning of it that you and I certainly understand...no. It was a foreign concept to him. It took me a long time to fully understand what had happened, and why he was the way he was. And that's what I see with Trump - a complete lack of empathy. He simply does not understand why others would be offended at anything he says or does - empathy is a foreign concept to him.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
I thought he did relatively well, but why need a cue card to say, I hear you?
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Because when there are hundreds of points to make cur cards or notes are vital in making sure none are overlooked. I use notes all the time when I was managing to make sure every issue was properly addressed. To not take such precautions is what is stupid.
 
Fishking said:
Wait, wait, wait...FDR? OK...what words and signs of empathy did he give when he rounded up Americans of Japanese descent? I love FDR so much because the left's worship of such a horrible person is such a great example of their hypocrisy and empty rhetoric.
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As if anyone could tell whether he was or was not using notes or cue cards with his fireside chats on the radio. He even tried to hide the fact he was disabled.
 
LowDown said:
So he shows up with notes so that he'll remember to say the right things, and you're still not happy. I think we can stipulate that nothing Trump ever does will ever make you people happy. We have no further use for you.
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He has to be reminded to say, "I hear you" to those whose son or daughter have been murdered in a senseless shooting? Really? Is your bar for our nation's leader so low that you're willing to excuse even that? One can just imagine, however, what you'd be saying if Obama had done the same thing...especially if Obama had had the number "44" embroidered on his sleeve....
 
Glen Contrarian said:
He has to be reminded to say, "I hear you" to those whose son or daughter have been murdered in a senseless shooting? Really? Is your bar for our nation's leader so low that you're willing to excuse even that?
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My expectations for the President's behavior are so low, not even Hermes Conrad could limbo under it.

lol
 
JackA said:
Really? Can you imagine FDR needing one, or Truman, or Nixon, or Kennedy, or....any other president? I can't. Well, Ford maybe.
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Eh, I don't know about that.

Plenty of great speakers keep notes.
 
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