Trump, as you may have guessed, does not like Paul Ryan. And there was a big tell that showed his hatred of Ryan when he did talk about him!
First you will notice in the clip that he was, for the most part, reading from a script during his so called endorsement of Paul Ryan. Instead of praising Ryan, Trump chose to spend the majority of his on air time, reading the script about topics that had nothing to do about Ryan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTPpH5-p5us
When Trump was off
script he made his usual negative statements. Interesting that endorsements are typically very positive and rather "Rah Rah for the Party" scripts but, when he was off script he was negative. For example, he said of our functioning international
trade agreements. “Trade is a disaster. “ A particularly telling sentence that was part of a rambling rant struck me as
typical of his negative statements in speeches and interviews, but horrible
when you think it is coming from the mouth of someone running for president. “We
don’t win at any level at anything.” Just sit with that sentence for bit. Hear
that coming from the president, imagine, a past president you admire saying of
America, “We don’t win at any level at anything.” Again, he said this off script and delivered it in a casual, off hand manner non verbally. I am trying to be objective about this and view this a Media coach and Nonverbal communication expert analyzing someone speaking to endorse a candidate in a prepared speech.
It's also revealing that Trump could not sustain a positive flow of his speech for more
than four sentences even when reading from the script. If he read a few positive
sentences he would go off script and say something negative. (If you read my posts on anger you will see how negativity works for him.) For example, when
he looked down at his script he said, “We will work together as friends...” but seconds later got off script and said negative things about voter ID.
He choose not to give specifics praise about Ryan, he kept
repeating that same two phrases, "He is good man." "Paul Ryan, he is a good man and a good guy." Before this, his baseline for off script statements was to look up and often to look at the camera, But as he said those statements, he looked
down, paused and did a lizard tongue thrust, stuck out is tongue is dislike and
attack of Ryan and then he said, “and we may disagree.” This showed he does not believe Ryan is a good guy and with the lizard tongue thrust, he attack and extreme dislike of Ryan.
Trump's Body Language During Endorsement of Paul Ryan
Trump endorses Ryan
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