Trump wrote inauguration speech himself

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

President-elect Donald Trump has written his inauguration address draft himself, two senior Trump transition officials told CNN Tuesday.

Last month, Trump told guests at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, that he planned to write the speech himself.

On Wednesday, Trump on social media shared an image of him writing what he said was his inaugural address at the estate last month.



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[WhiteTara]

1. I have the best words and this

administration will be bigly. End of speech.

[Angry Dragon]

25. the words will be HUGE and BEAUTIFUL ............. no more than 140 words

[PatSeg]

64. Throw in several "verys" as filler

Edit - terrible grammar

[Angry Dragon]

68. ............

[Hekate]

81. At least it will be mercifully short

[Angry Dragon]

84. 140 words is way too long

because none will make any sense

[WhiteTara]

90. Don't you mean Characters?

that's a lot of words...140, unless every other one is Yuuuge and Beautiful and Best

[Angry Dragon]

91. no .............. he has had two months I think he can come up with 140 words

[joshdawg]

101. I'll bet he used a Big Chief writing tablet.

And one of those huuuuuuge pencils that we used to have in the first grade.

[cstanleytech]

110. I'm betting he used his personal assistant................Siri. nt

[yellowcanine]

2. Maybe he will just compile "the best of Donald's tweets"

[dalton99a]

3. Bullshit.

[Oneironaut]

21. Yup. This is the equivalent of the CEO of a company claiming to be "the inventor" of something that

the scientists working for him invented. The photo taken looks totally staged and ridiculous. It's clear that he hasn't even written anything on that notepad (his pen is at the top of the paper, and no other papers are folded over the back of the notepad).

What complete horseshit.

[MountainFool]

31. and ... it's blank

Everything you can see of that pad of paper ... is blank. Perfectly representing his core values.

[Pacifist Patriot]

54. No doubt in my mind!

[skylucy]

69. +1000 You got that right. No way.

[JDC]

77. Complete

[In_The_Wind]

4. His life is about to change in ways he never dreamed of.

[olddad56]

74. so will ours, and not for the better

[In_The_Wind]

105. I'm afraid (very afraid) you are right.

[LittleGirl]

5. Listen, I know

all of you are boycotting this madness but I'm going to watch it on BBC Friday. I want to see that orange anus mouth make a mockery of the Presidency live. I asked my spouse to come home from work early so that we can gasp and cry when Obama leaves.

Yes, I'm in Europe. The whole world will be watching this disaster and I want to as well. I just won't watch CNN.

[sharp_stick]

6. I wonder if that POS

owns anything not gilded. I've never seen one of his places that doesn't rank way up there on the gaudy shitheap scale.

[wordpix]

14. thanks to the Russian crime bosses who bailed him out of 7th bankruptcy

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/donald-trump-was-bailed-out-bankruptcy-russia-crime-bosses

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Does that mean he's going to lead chants for "build the wall" or

"lock her up"? I wouldn't be surprised.

[strongermessage]

8. He looks like he's in pain...

caused by a bigly case of writers' block.

[Liberalagogo]

9. Who gave him

the crayons?

[volstork]

18. Damn.

You beat me to it.

[deurbano]

20. I was thinking finger paint.

[yallerdawg]

10. "138, 139...

140! Done!"

[Paladin]

11. Oh, goody. (nt)

[elmac]

12. there will be a lot of bigly and huge

in his address and that will make all of his brain dead supporters swoon.

[Charles Bukowski]

13. Why is Asshat raising his notepad like that?

Gump can't even PRETEND to write properly. SMH
.

[wordpix]

17. practicing his "look presidential" face before Fri.

[Botany]

26. all work and no play makes jake a dull boy

BTW that is the most uncomfortable chair I have ever seen and BTW is everyting he
owns tacky and gold platted?

[Angry Dragon]

43. the answer: YES ............. google Trump apartment pics

[IronLionZion]

53. Dipshit doesn't want us to see what he's writing

it's a secret just like all of his plans and policies! You never know when ISIS is watching.

[Pacifist Patriot]

55. Hiding the fact that there is nothing written whatsoever.

[JudyM]

62. Clearly true, he's on the 1st page, top of the pad. No thoughts but he means business.

[TygrBright]

60. Doesn't want the blank paper to show in the pic. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

15. So, coming from the Trump staff,

this means he didn't write one word of it. The giveaway will be if there are words with more than one syllable.

[underpants]

16. Is he going to phone it in?

Remember he lived on the phone during the primaries.

[rug]

19. My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you've bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

I thank President Obama for his service to our nation -- as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-five Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents.

So it has been; so it must be with this generation of Americans.

[chowder66]

28. Original Draft: Мои соотечественники:

Я стою здесь сегодня унижен задачи, стоящей перед нами, благодарны за доверие, вы даровали, помня о жертвах, принесенных нашими предками.

Я благодарю президента Обаму за его служение нашей стране, - а также щедрость и сотрудничество, которое он показал на протяжении всего этого перехода.

Сорок пять американцев теперь взяли президентскую присягу. Эти слова были произнесены во время приливов процветания и спокойных водах мира. Тем не менее, каждый так часто, то клятва на фоне сбора облаков и бушуют штормы. В эти моменты Америка вперед не только благодаря умению или видению тех, кто в этот высокий пост, а потому, что мы, люди, остались верны идеалам наших предков и верность нашим основополагающим документам.

Так что это было; поэтому он должен быть с этим поколением американцев.
YA stoyu zdes' segodnya unizhen zadachi, stoyashchey pered nami, blagodarny za doveriye, vy darovali, pomnya o zhertvakh, prinesennykh nashimi predkami.

YA blagodaryu prezidenta Obamu za yego sluzheniye nashey strane, - a takzhe shchedrost' i sotrudnichestvo, kotoroye on pokazal na protyazhenii vsego etogo perekhoda.

Sorok pyat' amerikantsev teper' vzyali prezidentskuyu prisyagu. Eti slova byli proizneseny vo vremya prilivov protsvetaniya i spokoynykh vodakh mira. Tem ne meneye, kazhdyy tak chasto, to klyatva na fone sbora oblakov i bushuyut shtormy. V eti momenty Amerika vpered ne tol'ko blagodarya umeniyu ili videniyu tekh, kto v etot vysokiy post, a potomu, chto my, lyudi, ostalis' verny idealam nashikh predkov i vernost' nashim osnovopolagayushchim dokumentam.

Tak chto eto bylo; poetomu on dolzhen byt' s etim pokoleniyem amerikantsev.

[Angry Dragon]

33. LOL ................ well done

[chowder66]

107. : ) thanks!. nt

[Angry Dragon]

30. very nice words rug ............... never to come out of his mouth

[rug]

35. It's his turn to steal from an Obama.

2009 Inaugural.

[Angry Dragon]

44. less than 45.5 hours before NOT MY PRESIDENT takes office

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the world is down to 21 hours

[democratisphere]

22. Can't wait to hear his hallowed words:

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for 'The Donald'."

[Polly Hennessey]

23. Speech

He is holding the tablet in such a way so that "we the people" can't see that it is blank.

[wordpix]

24. what is that background art piece?

[Angry Dragon]

41. a trophy he won for being the BESTEST Friend to PUTIN

[Angry Dragon]

27. no wedding ring ............

[hibbing]

29. Love the eagle

I fear for our future for I am not a member of the ruling class.


Peace

[LoisB]

32. Note to self: Never hire Trump's interior decorator.

[In_The_Wind]

70. +1 !!!

[John1956PA]

103. Maybe the decorator figured he would get stiffed anyway, so he accomplished a fair exchange. eom

[barbtries]

34. yeah right

i'll believe it when i hear it. if it isn't all about donald and how everyone loves him except his enemies etc and all about him and only him, i'll know someone else wrote it.

ha. the way melania wrote her convention speech no doubt.

ETA: i actually will probably never hear it, since i'll be on my way to DC for the march the next day and would not voluntarily watch it even if there was not one other thing to watch and all i felt like doing was watching tv. but i will know by DU's reports and the news what he says. Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, etc. i'll know.

[oldtime dfl_er]

36. Here's his notes

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[Dave Starsky]

37. This has got to be a joke.

This is probably the stupidest thing I have ever seen a public figure, let alone a potential President, ever do.

[Turbineguy]

38. Looks hard.

Maybe you can get the dog to eat it.

[madaboutharry]

39. A brand new blank writing pad.

Trump needs new advisors who have a better understanding of stagecraft.

[pkdu]

40. Pad raised so you cant see its a prop , just like the pile of manila folders at the press conference

what a fraud ( in every sense)

[unblock]

42. translation: he plagiarized parts and we wanted to get out in front of this issue.

[muntrv]

45. In Crayon?

[forgotmylogin]

46. I don't see any kind of writing implement.

Is he using his finger?

[JudyM]

65. Black pen is showing on my screen.

[TexasProgresive]

75. If you blow up the pic you can see a black pen with a pocket clasp.

Really strange. I think he would use something like this--

Nah! way too classy.

[Renew Deal]

47. All your bases are belong to us!

[onenote]

48. The same way he wrote his books himself. Right.

[Brother Buzz]

57. Ah, but he's tightened up that pesky non-disclosure agreement since then

[Cattledog]

49. That photo's right out of the Kremlin.

[wryter2000]

50. The same way his wife wrote her speech herself?

Lemme see. It'll start "Four score and seven years ago, I asked what I could do for our country, not what our country could do for me."

[keithbvadu2]

86. You beat me to it.

Right on the money.

[n2doc]

51. Why am I reminded of preschool?

[Jacob Boehme]

52. Well, you will need to study up before you can understand any of it.

The Klingon Language Institute: http://www.kli.org/

[mahatmakanejeeves]

56. We're not just talkin' ULTRA; we're talkin' PLUS ULTRA. NT

[TygrBright]

58. Paging Ben Stiller: Trump's trying to steal Zoolander's "Blue Steel" (TM) n/t

[mindem]

59. Just the right camera angle

to hide his 5 chins.

[turbinetree]

61. Where's Crowley the plagiarists

she can lift words just like his wife did ( which reminds me did he and her ever produce her paperwork of being a legal citizen / resident of this country?) Because he can practice watching the below video and be just like his wife...................and if's that not good enough lets remind everyone to exactly what he is shall we.

I apologize Michelle.................you are still more classy than this person

[bucolic_frolic]

63. Has he heard of

word processing?

[Sanity Claws]

66. Notice how you can't see anything on the page

It's like those folders he had at the press conference last week- blank.

[calimary]

67. Awww... let's give him a medal!

Poor thing had to write his own speech himself. Hope there are alert watchdogs looking and listening for plagiarism. After all, it runs in the family (Melania), and among friends (Monica Crowley). Or maybe he had another Tony Schwartz step in and ghost-write it for him, so he can stick his name on it and claim he wrote it all himself?

[randr]

71. Another lie from the illiterate one

Anyone who would stage his self with a blank page and pen is obviously trying to prove something.
Love how he curls the pad up to hide the fact that he cant write.
He really looks like he just got caught cheating.

[smirkymonkey]

104. You know that if any part of his speech contains complete, coherent sentences that he did not

write one word of it. He is functionally illiterate.

[NCjack]

72. Just above his head is a speaker, delivering to him

Putin's dictation of the speech he is to give.

[randr]

73. They moved the desk into the bath room. He is taking a dump, hence the concentrated look.

[kimbutgar]

76. Why does my first thought reading this headline is bull$hit!

[JDC]

78. Notice how the pad is tilted up so you can't see

All the emptiness? He is an empty suit if the highest order to put it mildly.

[Kali]

79. OMG

[Hekate]

80. Sure, Red Don, and Melania wrote her own speech as well

[hwmnbn]

82. Bullshit!!

He can't speak a coherent sentence, much less write paragraphs. As soon as he opens his mouth we'll know.

[Vinca]

83. More stage props. Just like the stacks of files at his press conference.

An unused pad of paper at an unused desk that has a new prop - an eagle statue on a marble base - on the side.

[Retrograde]

85. What % of the words will be "I" "me" "my" "mine"

I think he should just keep it short and paraphrase Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you, as what the country can do for ME!"

[haele]

87. Is this photoshop?

WTF is up with all that tile work behind him? This picture is all out of proportion, the back of the tile chair - or is it a fountain feature? (it's built into the wall!) - is too close to the table for someone to actually be sitting at the table comfortably. The desk is too high for the person "sitting" at it.
The picture also needs to be cropped along the sides - the desk has become the prominent feature, and the photographer either should have gotten rid of the eagle or moved it closer to the note pad.

Looks like someone plopped a Kodachrome of a 1930's bank manager's desk along the back wall of a 19th century Turkish seraglio - or maybe a bathhouse - and photoshopped a head and tie over the original person who would have been seated in the photo.

Really - a tile throne that looks as if it were built into a wall? With a Limoges clock or vase cresting it? How is this professional looking to any person who considers himself (or herself) to be a serious international business person?

Heck, even Sepp Blatter wouldn't allow himself to be officially photographed like this.

Haele

[Ruby the Liberal]

93. Somewhere, Pete Souza is laughing his ass off

[treestar]

94. lol

you can see his little fingers though!

[DRoseDARs]

88. *Love* the fake eagle. Last time he had a real one, it tried to claw his face off.

Shame it didn't succeed.

[3catwoman3]

99. Smart bird.

That eagle was a good judge of character.

[lark]

89. drumpf, too stupid to use a word processor,

can't figure out computers, has to write the speech by hand. OMG! I'm so glad I'm boycotting the Inauguration and his speech. You know it will be full of 3 and 4 letter words, and 3-4 word sentences. He's not smart enough or focused enough to write a regular speech that showcases his "lofty" (ha!) goals and expectations and brings us all together. No, his will be a divisive, small minded, vengeful, hate filled speech, reflecting the writer in all his tawdry, hating, racist, misogynist, traitorous, criminal worst. The only good things he will say are about himself and "the majority" (lie) of Americans who are so happy with his election. Only question I have is will be fawn all over Russia, regardless of how inappropriate that would be or did Putin tell him to save it. That his worship of him needs to be shown in agreed to actions (destroy NATO and EU) not an initial speech.

[onenote]

92. Trump: "This is my 'thinking real hard' face."

[lanlady]

95. Is he writing from inside an Egyptian tomb?

All this photo needs is a Nubian slave standing to his side, waving a fan of ostrich feathers.

[Ruby the Liberal]

98. No. The Palm Beach Show Group Jewelry Dealer's back office

[leftyladyfrommo]

96. Biy, that is going to be one short speech. nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

97. Holy Staged Photo Batman!!! Heres the original:

[DFW]

100. Trump doesn't even look at the paper when he's writing?

I hope he never gets his pilot's license......

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

102. Does the speech begin, "Four score and seven years ago ..."?

May as well plagiarize the best.

[hamsterjill]

106. Let me see here.

Make America great again.

I won. I beat Crooked Hillary Clinton.

I'm great.

I know many people, many people like me bigly.

SNL is being mean to me, and OF COURSE:

Obama..........you're fired.

That 'bought sums it up. No need to watch.

[rtracey]

108. I am thrilled...and I'll tell you why

Through some twists and turns, I was able to get hold of the speech.... I should not share it before Friday, but who cares, its from Fuckump.....

Interesting note is Melania helped him write it.....so here is just the beginning, because I don't want to spill all the excitement....

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."


wow he is just a genius.

[EarthFirst]

109. Anyone know what the tile on the wall behind his right should says? "PLVS ____"

I'm more curious what the subliminal imagery says in this photograph...