Very big phrases, very big words
He really did say it. Go to 2:20 and see for yourself; he really said it. “That’s big stuff. That’s big stuff. Those are very big phrases, very big words.”
He’d just gotten through saying them – oppression, cruelty, injustice, inflicted – and he managed it without stumbling. Ooooooh Mommy I said the big big words.
It should have been John Lewis. John Lewis stayed away because Trump was there – so instead of John Lewis who actually understands and feels the words because he lived them, they got Trump who thinks they’re meaningless, and couldn’t care less.
Editing to add a photo from March 2015:
The CBC played that bit. The transition from the prepared script (written by someone with, I would say, at least a high school command of vocabulary and composition) to Trump’s childish prattle is like walking off a cliff.
To be fair, I don’t think he was referring to the actual letter count, but to the significance of what he’d just said (i.e. read). But to be limited to words like “big” in conveying that meaning bespeaks a horrifyingly deep poverty of intellect.
Well, I think he meant both. Big fancy-shmancy words that elitists use and that he at this point finds difficult to say, and also big important significant lalala. More the second though, I agree – he was pausing to marvel at the Beautiful Sentiments, which mean nothing to him.
And now, on the very same day, he has made and released a video attacking sanctuary cities. THE SAME DAY.
They’re just words in a script to him.
I’m pretty sure Trump considers ‘speeches with long words’ and ‘speeches with deep concepts’ to be the same thing.
Trump pauses to admire the bigly thinky speech he just read.