Former U.S. President and Republican Donald Trump is possessed about the number of people he draws to his political rallies. It became an issue in the recent debate between him and his Democratic rival for the presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris. She deftly caused him to divert from his script to defending against her assertion that people were leaving his rallies early.
This Harris allegation was true, whereas it was not happening at her political rallies. Today’s New York Times has an article entitled “Trump Claims Harris’s Rallies Are Smaller. We Counted.” They used cameras and other tools to count the number of people who attended three Trump rallies and three Harris rallies, all during August. The numbers were pretty close. But a surprising fact was the many photos provided in the article that show a large number of people attending Trump rallies and leaving while he was still speaking, and this was not happening at Harris rallies. Why is that?
There is a very logical reason for it. Not surprisingly, people get tired of listening to long speeches and leave before the speaker is finished. But in Trump’s case, he keeps on complaining about the same stuff on and on and on. The Times further reports in that article, “Of the six rallies The Times attended, Mr. Trump spoke for four times as long as Ms. Harris.” The Times reports, “Trump spoke for 1 hour 38 minutes, on average, at these three rallies.” And they added, “Harris spoke for 24 minutes, on average.”
In my book, Bible Predicts Trump Fall, I show that the Bible’s wisdom literature has much to 
say about making long-winded speeches. Here are some of these Bible texts:
“One who spares words is knowledgable” (Proverbs 17.27)
“When words are many, transgression is not lacking” (Proverbs 10.19)
“Let your words be few” (Ecclesiastes 5.2).
“The more the words, the more vanity” (Ecclesiastes 6.11).
“The lips of fools consume them. … fools talk on and on” (Ecclesiastes 10.12, 14).
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