January 26, 2025
Uncommon Communicators: Churchill, Reagan, Trump
By J.B. Shurk
After four years with a mumbling fool stumbling around in the role of “president,” we have a strong communicator back in the White House. The difference is striking.
While President Trump was simultaneously signing executive orders and answering questions from the press on his first day back on the job, he suggested to those in attendance that he might have taken more questions in those first few hours than Joe Biden had taken during all four years in office. The assembled journalists seemed to quietly concur. Joe’s handlers spent every minute protecting him from even the most trivial journalistic inquiries; President Trump handles hostile questions while juggling ten other things at once. Consequently, the first hundred hours of Trump’s restored presidency were historic.
President Reagan was the “Great Communicator,” and no honest listener could doubt that deserved appellation. Reagan’s unique combination of eloquence, strength, and wit made him a formidable adversary for anyone who got in his way. Reagan could be pithy or expansive as the occasion demanded, and some of his sharpest verbal attacks required only a few words. He summed up his entire Cold War strategy in just four: “We win; they lose.” It worked.
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