![]() The former rugby player hit the town with Zara - who is the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal - the night before the king and his wife Queen Camilla were crowned in a glittering ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey last weekend (06-07.05.23) and he's insisted he has no regrets about staying out late before the big day.ĭuring an appearance on 'Good Morning Britain', he explained: "'It was quite nice to have a little date night. Mike Tindall enjoyed a "date night" with his wife Zara just hours before King Charles' coronation. To Brande Roderick on The Celebrity Apprentice, 2013 seasonġ1.Mike Tindall and his wife Zara had a big night out before King Charles' coronation Quoted as saying this to two 14-year-old girls in the Chicago Tribune, December 1992ĩ. Discussing losing his virginity, on The Howard Stern Show, 1997Ĩ. Campaign rally in Plymouth, New Hampshire, CSPAN, 7 February 2016Ħ. Presidential bid announcement at Trump Tower, 16 June 2015Ĥ. “And then I got to the bottom and realised I’d got my dates wrong. It really surprised me, and I thought, ‘He’s not so simple, there is another side to Trump,’” he says. It was quite reassuring and had a lot of figurative turns of phrase. “I came across a speech on the White House website, addressed to the people of Flint, Michigan, about the water scandal. It is just lucky for him that he communicates this way, and that he has such simple ideas.”īut there was one speech that convinced Sears that there was more to the president than met the eye. “But now I know there’s nothing clever or pre-planned about what he says. “I thought maybe he was, on some weird level, a kind of strategic genius,” says Sears of Trump’s ability to convince average Americans. Please 11įor all the fun with his buffoonery, Trump’s language still holds power, because of a style of speech that might be described as demagogic water-cooler banter: constant references to us versus them, and “winners” and “losers”, the latter being possibly the most frequent word in Sears’s collection, which includes several blistering haiku dismissing John McCain (“Doesn’t know how to win”), Rosie O’Donnell (“Sad sack”) and Ted Cruz (“Dyin’ Ted”). It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees 9Ĭome here, I’ll show you how life works 10. Just think, in a couple of years, I’ll be dating you 8 I’m a very compassionate person (With a very high IQ) 7 The president may still wish that many of these quotes were never written down, such as his now startling call for coordinated global action on climate change in 2009 (in Sear’s poem “We’ll be fine with the environment”) or the grotesque pass he dribbled at a female Celebrity Apprentice candidate, in the third line of following poem: And as Sears says: “I am certain there are tons of good quotes that have never been written down.” More than 30 years of Trump’s misogyny, xenophobia and taste for vengeance are on display – all fastidiously footnoted. Working with the Trump Twitter Archive, the Trump Archive and American Presidency Project to collect long-deleted tweets and forgotten quotes from the pre-internet era, Sears describes “a weird process, more like being a data scientist than writer”. I’ve read so many of his words and there really are no exceptions.” People have said he writes like a third grader with a limited vocabulary. There is no complexity to anything he says. ![]() “Lots of declarative sentences, a staccato rhythm. So it’s not that far away from poetry,” says Sears. “He does speak in very compact, distilled phrases that tell you a lot about who he is, in a small number of words. Sears is far from the first to notice potential in Trump’s voice: after all, elevating a man who struggles bigly to articulate himself to poetry is inherently funny. I build buildings that are 94 stories tall 4 The latest collection of Trumpian verse is The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, by McSweeney’s writer Rob Sears.
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