And I will win for you.” Winning was still his obsession, but it was framed as an act of altruism. My pledge reads: ‘I’m with you, the American people.’ I am your voice.” “It reads: ‘I’m With Her.’ I choose to recite a different pledge. “My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge,” Trump said. It even went so far as to turn the tables, casting Hillary Clinton as the candidate on a gilded path of self-aggrandizement. In its straightforward, unadorned sentences, “I” ceded plenty of space to “you” and “we.” It wasn’t an adolescent frenzy of self-congratulation like last Saturday’s unhinged introduction of Mike Pence as his running mate. Is Trump finally and fully getting that? His speech suggested so.
They’re electing a leader, someone who can ideally soothe their anxieties and improve their lives. When Americans go to the polls, it’s not the final episode of the kind of reality show that he once starred in, nor is it the final minutes of the kind of beauty pageant that he once owned.
They rambled.īut they recognized that perhaps the tallest obstacle between him and the White House isn’t his lack of experience or even his recklessness but his epic and all-too-obvious narcissism. They were much, much, much too long, as if he were trying to prove his worthiness for the presidency with sheer oratorical stamina. But what was most striking about his remarks on the final night of the Republican National Convention was the way in which they sought to refute that very notion. With every boast about his poll numbers, every celebration of his victory margins and every sorting of the world into winners like him and losers like just about everybody else, he seemed to be on something other than a political quest or civic mission. CLEVELAND - Donald Trump has said and done many offensive things during his presidential campaign, but the greatest insult was his overarching motive.
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