Trump Shows Why He’s the Next Great American Communicator

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump demonstrated the exact qualities that allowed him to walk past a failing legacy media establishment and right back into the White House.

Trump said just before he delivered his speech to a joint session of Congress that he would “tell it like it is.” Well, he did.

Trump explained the reasons why he was elected—Democrats weaponized the legal system to persecute him, they focused on woke social engineering over the needs of the American people, they flooded the country with illegal aliens, they spent like crazy and raised inflationm and they made a mess of things on the world stage—and what he planned to do to create a new “golden age” for America.

“The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats is over,” Trump said. It sounded as though a few Democrats booed that line. So much for “our democracy.”

Given the actions of Trump’s administration in just the last few months to target the administrative state like no president in American history, he may very well be right that we are seeing a long-term disruption in the fourth, unelected branch’s power. All the better for self-government.

On content, Trump’s speech was excellent. He laid out a strong case for his counterrevolution against the deep state and much more.

But what I thought was remarkable was not just what he was saying. It was how much he’s mastered communicating directly to the American people.

I’m sure that even as I write this, legacy media journalists are angrily typing away about how Trump’s speech was too long, he’s too radical, he’s too mean, all the usual. But I imagine for most everyone else it was clear what a tremendous “vibe shift” Trump projected.

Trump brings an energy, a verve to American politics that was wholly lacking in the four years under President Joe Biden. It felt for a while that the country was simply ceasing to function in a pall of malaise, that the world would burn as we went quietly into the night.

What Trump communicated through his unique, off-the-cuff style is that American energy is back. Media elites hate it, his supporters love it, and it drives his opponents crazy because they can’t stop it.

Americans don’t want to hear polished “corporate speak” anymore, they don’t want to hear something that sounds like it was drafted by a committee, and they certainly don’t want to hear any more of the incoherent yet carefully planned argle bargle that defined his failed predecessor.

What they get is a Trump who appears to be speaking from his inner monologue and makes even a prepared speech seem like he’s winging it.

And that’s a good thing.

Has this direct style gotten Trump into trouble from time to time? Sure. Even he has sort of admitted it like when he was recently asked if he still thought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a “dictator.”

“I can’t believe I said that,” Trump said, waving off the whole thing. Funny enough, though Trump may have initially been hyperbolic, there was an unacknowledged truth in what he said. Elections in Ukraine indeed had been canceled, and now most Americans know that because of the “dictator” line.

And that’s illustrative of Trump’s genius in how he’s been able to circumvent a closed media ecosystem, and drive the news in the way he chooses.

He certainly got through on Tuesday night.

In his speech, Trump demonstrated clearly how he sidestepped the entire constellation of elite institutions that tried to unperson him and pulled off perhaps the greatest political comeback in American history. And with apologies to Ronald Reagan, whose portrait now hangs in the Oval Office, Trump now also deserves to at least share the title as America’s “great communicator.”

Trump was sent to Washington to be a disruptor. He’s there to disrupt a failed political establishment that tried to rule the country through a corrupt, barely-there marionette. He’s been returned to the White House to convert the energy of his populist movement into a new birth of freedom for the country.

What Trump has been demonstrating in his first days back in office is that whether in the grand spectable of a speech to Congress, or a Truth Social post, or in a rally with his supporters, Trump knows exactly how to speak directly to Americans without the media gatekeepers getting in the way.

It worked and the message is clear. America is back.

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