The Podiums Trump—and His Rivals—Should Use to Avoid Another ‘Senior Moment’
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyMost podiums don’t jiggle-jiggle—they stand firm and proud, as much a testament to American craftsmanship as they are a metaphor for American exceptionalism, ready at a moment’s notice to shield a speaker’s lower half from a rapt audience spellbound by both the lectern’s lacquer finish and its lecturer’s sparkling rhetoric.But one errant podium wiggle-wiggled for sure at one of Donald Trump’s recent stops along the campaign trail, bringing shame down upon the good name of soapboxes everywhere as the former president leaned slightly too hard on it mid-speech, causing it to buckle under his weight.“What a crappy contractor this was,” Trump quipped to laughter at the annual Minnesota GOP dinner, observing that his podium “keeps tilting to the left—like too many other things.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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