>>16354904
>These speeches Reagan gave are pretty much the best speeches ever given. Trump's speech is great too.
>>16354922
the populist campaign stump speech in the video was written for Trump by Stephen MiIller, like the Inauguration speech … Trump wasn't totally comfortable with the excessive populist rhetoric …
fun fact: the same guy who wrote jokes for Reagan was writing jokes for Trump too
… In the Trump era, the line between politics and comedy is so blurred it’s easy to mistake one for the other. Last March, CNN ran an article titled “This may be the scariest thing Donald Trump has said as President.” At a private event, following the news President Xi Jinping of China had removed term limits, Trump quipped: “He’s now president for life,” adding, “Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”
The remark was taken literally by many reports, and denounced as a horrifying harbinger of Trump’s dictatorial designs.
Comedy writer Doug Gamble knew better.
The line wasn’t an off-the-cuff remark where Trump was actually considering making himself dictator; it was in fact an unused joke Gamble had scripted for the Gridiron Dinner – a well-known political roast that occurred the night before. A veteran of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and other such satirical events, Gamble had been asked by Trump’s staff to submit jokes.
https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2018/06/secret-weapon-meet-canadian-comedian-who-writes-jokes-trump