This speech is really bad.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

It's like his audience is a fourth grade class.

[lunatica]

1. ?

I'm at work.

[Ilsa]

18. Using the same tired adjectives about the ACA,

and then I changed channels.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. ....And?

That was remarkably content-free. Anything to add?

[Orrex]

10. Well, there was more original content in the OP

Than in 100 "Link to Tweet" posts, so there's that.

[OliverQ]

3. That's unfair to 4th graders. They're way more educated than Trump's audience.

[MFM008]

4. And

Because they are.

[cilla4progress]

5. i turned off the volume

as I always do when His Orangeness speaks - assuming I can get to the volume controls quickly enough.

But I do see that it is going on a long time.

Geez, he couldn't possibly be trying to distract from the hearings today and esp. Comey tomorrow, could he?

[Ilsa]

17. I change the channel.

I'll listen when he gives his resignation speech, and unhinged, goes after Everyone.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I would be open to learning sigh language just to not hear his voice.

If they sign whatever he says.

[JHan]

6. sounds like he's ad libbing more than usual

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I am trying to wring the malice from my heart so I am avoiding heated language...

But this speech is bad by any objective metric.

[Phoenix61]

7. Funny, I thought petty much the same thing

It reminded me of an infomercial. Lots of words but no content.

[Solly Mack]

8. This speech is the Trump version of "Mirror, mirror on the wall"

[Satch59]

11. I turned it off 10min ago and thought this crap would be over...

He's still meandering...back off...

What is he even talking about??
God, he's such a moron...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. The substance is poor. The delivery is poor. The writing is poor.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. He's not using teleprompter, right?

It turns out he CAN read, and uses teleprompters sometimes, but when he comes to the end of the line in teh prompter sentence, he pauses, as if there is a period there, which produces really weird syntax.

When he is not using them, he blathers and is incoherent.

[NastyRiffraff]

22. There's a reason he dislikes teleprompters

He's really, really bad at reading them. He's stiff, with no affect, and he comes across as confused. He can read, but I think he has terrible reading comprehension.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. Maybe eyesight?

He does not wear glasses, maybe an ego thing?
but I have to assume he had Lasik eye surgery then.

which, as you point out, does not make up for the poor comprehension.

[ADX]

13. Of course it was really bad. Has this lunatic ever given a speech that wasn't?

Rhetorical question...

[chillfactor]

14. turned the tv off until...

the asshat was finished...I cannot stand looking at him or hearing him.....a waste of my time.

[GallopingGhost]

15. Would love to see Donald

on an episode of Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?"

It would be sad.

[YCHDT]

16. Buncha whining !!!!

[procon]

19. He told so many lies that he was ridiculous. nt