In the time I've been alive, there's never been a POTUS I couldn't stand to listen to...

[Different Drummer]

until now. Anyone else watching his Ohio speech on MSNBC? I don't recall the U.S. ever having a more poorly-spoken President.

[Orrex]

1. Trump has made me long for the comparative eloquence of George W. Bush

I laugh in the face of everyone who tells me that Trump is a very smart man or a successful businessman.

But for the luck of his birth, he'd be living in a refrigerator box in a culvert.

[Dave Starsky]

16. I could never listen to Dubya.

But he was like Garrison Keiller compared to this new, even more moronic crazy person.

[Lindsay]

2. I had that reaction to Reagan.

I knew every word was a lie, including "and" and "the."

Hearing his voice made my skin crawl.

Trump is worse.

[nocalflea]

7. Me too. Nothing sincere about Reagan.

He's why I knew Trump was a real threat. So many people just can't see past these faux exteriors.

[LeftInTX]

8. Reagan also made my skin crawl

For some reason Trump doesn't bother me as much as Reagan.

Trump is more outwardly A-hole, whereas Reagan had this creepy "folksy" facade.

[dmosh42]

3. I remember listening to Truman and each president since, but now I'm

feeling embarassment for our nation, and still feel astonished that we were
so dumb as to elect this con-man, crook scumbag!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I had trouble listening to Bush II.

He usually sounded like he was a little bit drunk, and his faux-folksiness really annoyed me. But Dolt 45 is just impossible. His voice is an irritating breathy tenor that he tries to force so he sounds more "manly," and what he actually says is so weird, offensive and sometimes downright unintelligible that I have to turn off the tv so I don't throw things at it.

[athena]

14. I couldn't listen to W.

I had to turn off the TV whenever he came on. I noticed, whenever I was abroad, that foreign news organizations translated W's speech into something that sounded educated and presidential in their own language. W's childish and ungrammatical sentences would always be dubbed over with something respectable-sounding. I would explain to friends that he didn't sound that way at all in English.

After spending eight years not listening to W., I don't even bother to try to listen to Trump. I do, wonder, though, how he sounds on foreign TV.

[PearliePoo2]

5. As soon as I heard him smugly boasting about his Ohio victory, I uttered a profanity

and turned him OFF.
What a preening peacock piece of shit.


(I'm hoping the Kentucky Fried Chicken diet will soon take its toll)

[deminks]

6. I could not listen to W and that fake accent.

Donnie is much worse.

[lillypaddle]

9. OMG

I just want to slap the shit out of him. Wish he would STFU. So sick of hearing about how dead Obamacare is, and how the coal workers love him for bringing back the jobs. And the steelworkers, blah bblah blah. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG!

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Nixon. I saw clear thru him from day one. He was on tv a lot.

Could*not*stand*him.
I read the newspapers rather than listen to him, with a few exceptions. LOVED his resignation speech.

[Egnever]

11. Shrub drove me nuts

With his misremembering. Could not stand that man. This guy makes shrub look like a picnic but shrub was nearly impossible for me to listen to as well.

[Grammy23]

12. I am very familiar with the mute button on my remote.

I can reach over and find it even in the dark. I've had a lot of practice since tRump came along. I used to really cringe at Bush II but never had quite the loathing and disgust I feel toward the Dorito Dictator. Between the stunted language geared toward an elementary school audience, self congratulatory comments, sucking air between clenched, veneered teeth and that cocky, self satisfied look he gets, I just can't take more than a few seconds of his speeches. Include a few of his quips, off script comments and ad libs and I'm ready to run screaming from the room.

So yeah. I know where the mute button is and I use it liberally when Cheeto Cheeks is on the boob tube.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Dubya had a way of talking to the people like we were stupid, but it was almost comical.

He'd say things like, "Freedom means you want to be free" or something stupid like that. And I'd just want to Picard facepalm.

But that wasn't as bad as this.

[niyad]

18. "is our children learning?' was one of my favourites

and my personal gift-giving favourite

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50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." --at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." --Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -Townsend, Tenn., Feb.

21, 2001

47. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001

46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)

[niyad]

15. couldn't stand ray-gun or either of the bush idiots.

[BigDemVoter]

17. I couldn't listen to GWB either.