Best Speech Yet or Rambling Lies? Twitter Is Split on Trump’s Anti-Hillary Speech
Donald Trump gave a speech attacking Hillary Clinton today, and it might have been one of his strongest, most on-message presentations he’s ever had. Of course, it was bound to attract attention on Twitter, and his speech seems to have cut relatively down the middle with people.
The former Secretary of State attacked the mogul’s business record yesterday, and he responded by ripping her economics plan, her foreign policy record, and generally painting her as the most “corrupt” lying candidate to get so close to the presidency.
Trump got some mixed reactions. Several conservatives, even those in the #NeverTrump camp, seemed to have a positive reaction to the speech:
TRUMP: ‘We Switched From Policy Of Americanism To Policy Of Globalism’
That is the whole election, right there!https://t.co/k7Pzy8xVRC
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) June 22, 2016
If Teleprompter Trump were real Trump — we’d have had two good speeches (Orlando, Hillary) making headlines, rather than ancillary garbage.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 22, 2016
This is mix of true, devastating anti-Clinton critiques with overstatement, incoherence & hypocrisy.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 22, 2016
Yeah, this is the best speech Trump has given in the campaign so far. But can he keep it up?
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 22, 2016
This attack style of @realDonaldTrump on @HillaryClinton if he can be consistent might work well!
— Ben Ferguson (@benfergusonshow) June 22, 2016
Others, however, were not so favorable:
This is one of Trump’s best campaign speeches so far. Of course, he’ll probably close by accusing Hillary Clinton of being a secret Muslim.
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 22, 2016
Cue “oh this is a different Trump!” analysis in 3, 2…
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) June 22, 2016
It’s true that Trump can’t be blackmailed, because he is incapable of shame.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) June 22, 2016
Donald Trump is now criticizing someone else for being “volcanic, impulsive…disdainful of the rules set for everyone else”
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 22, 2016
Trump talks like he’s speaking to someone who barely understands English.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 22, 2016
“A lot of what [Trump] just said is flatly not true.” –@mitchellreports on @MSNBC just now
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 22, 2016
I need Trump to learn breath control. All that inhaling into the mic gives the sense he choking for air.
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) June 22, 2016
Trump says Brian Williams career was destroyed for lying. I bet this is awkward for the person covering it: pic.twitter.com/1stTydKyvt
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) June 22, 2016
Here is the Clinton campaign's official response to Trump's anti-Clinton speech, from spokesman @GlenCaplin1: pic.twitter.com/HLraTUYQXQ
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) June 22, 2016
In the end, Ben Shapiro reminded everyone that people who say Trump’s more disciplined persona is imminent shouldn’t get over-excited just yet:
Prediction: Within 24 hours, Trump will have said something to knock his good speech off the front page.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 22, 2016
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