Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IS TONIGHT!

10 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief commentary, the speaker advises President Trump to adopt a calm, statesmanlike demeanor during the upcoming presidential debate, contrasting it with a more aggressive, fighter-like persona. The speaker argues that such composure would allow Trump to deliver effective attacks on his female opponent, whom he describes as shallow, lacking deep values, and not particularly bright. The speaker suggests that while intellectual brilliance is not essential for presidential success, a combination of shallowness, poor values, and limited intelligence is dangerous.

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If President Trump can keep his cool, if he— in other words, if he sounds like a statesman rather than like a boxer, a puncher, an MMA fighter, I think he could be, uh, I think he could land serious blows against her. She's a nothing. I don't think she's particularly bright aside from— she's certainly not deep. I'm not sure she's particularly bright. Which, if you have common sense, it doesn't matter. You don't have to be particularly bright to get along in life or even to be President of the United States. But if you're shallow, have lousy values, and are not bright, that's a dangerous combination.