The Trump Phenomenon with James Kelso, August 31, 2018
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Today, August 31, 2018, we’re still recovering from the impact of the speech Donald John Trump gave yesterday in Evansville, Indiana. If that one speech were the only speech President Trump ever gave, historians would have to rank it well above President Washington’s Farewell Address, or ANY OTHER speech ever given by any American president. I’m not being a cheerleader when I say that….it’s simply true. Steve Bannon was wrong when he said that we have elected the greatest American orator since William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925, Lincoln, Nebraska). Bannon had the right idea. Bryan was known as “the Great Commoner”, and spoke before 5,000,000 (!) Americans in the 1896 presidential election. He toured 27 states, and was the inventor of the national stump tour. He gave 600 speeches, sometimes 4 a day. Here’s an odd fact, his beautiful home on Sumner Drive in Lincoln is only two miles from my own family’s ancestral home, one of the nicest in Lincoln, on East Pershing Drive next to the Lincoln Country Club. Small world. But Trump has greatly outdone William Jennings Bryan as not just the greatest American orator of all time. It’s not silly to say maybe the greatest ever, in the world.
