re: "Jugglers and Singers require applause"

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So? I think Obama could be a wimp here as well? Doesn't change that Trump is even worse

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Except you said this

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I wouldn't say that for any President since Nixon

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There isn't anything wrong with taking your message to the people. This is how it was done for ages before presidents became too important to mix with the rabble. Truman had his whistle stop tours, FDR had his fireside chats. Hell jfk called television a media that could be "abused by demagogues, by appeals to emotion and prejudice and ignorance". Were they all wrong? Isn't Trump right to distrust the American media and favor this style of public mass comm?

I think your distaste for Trump has you assuming he's doing this to stroke his massive ego, but you are forgetting how he's been treated by the media and the undeniable success he's had taking his message directly to the people this way.