Fox's America's Newsroom gushes over Trump's UN speech: “I think this was his best speech ever”
K.T. McFarland: “Look at the body language. He was confident, he was reading slowly. He didn't repeat himself a bunch of times, which he has always done in the past.”
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Citation From the September 24 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
SANDRA SMITH (CO-ANCHOR): K.T., if you could first, tell us what you just saw in the words of the president. What struck you?
K.T. MCFARLAND (FORMER DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER): I think this was his best speech ever. And look at the body language. He was confident, he was reading slowly. He didn't repeat himself a bunch of times, which he has always done in the past. And the other thing is, how many times did he talk about himself? I never counted one. He was talking about the country. He was talking about the things that he wanted Americans to accomplish. Even when he talked about the economy's improving, he didn't say I created the jobs. He said we. So I think it was a very different Donald Trump.
I also think it was the best description he has ever given of what Make America Great Again means, and what America First means. He has usually tweeted the stuff out, but he's never really articulated it.
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MCFARLAND: I think that he has really, in that one speech, articulated his entire Trump doctrine and put himself down on the record against authoritarianism, against globalism, and in favor of nationalism.
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MARTHA MACCALLUM (FOX NEWS ANCHOR): I agree with K.T. I thought it was a very strong speech and I think people say that they don't understand what the Trump doctrine is, or it has never been articulated. I think in this speech he went a long way towards doing that.
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DANA PERINO (FOX NEWS HOST): But it's very interesting -- your observation, K.T., that he didn't use the word "I". I remember being here a few years ago when we counted up the "Is," and that was very different.