Trump’s Crowds
Donald Trump makes a huge deal about how many people he gets at his political rallies. He likes to tell the numbers, often exaggerating them. But now he’s catching flack from both the media and his opponent, Kamala Harris, about the people who leave his rallies early because he speaks so long. Harris said the other day that people are leaving Trump’s rallies early due to “exhaustion and boredom.”
Trump recently fired back at a town hall meeting in Flint, Michigan, “Honestly, they never leave.” Honestly? I didn’t know that word is in Donald Trump’s vocabulary.
Trump’s Speeches Are Too Long
Harris is right—exhaustion and boredom. On average, when Donald Trump delivers a speech at his political functions for the public, he speaks well over an hour. I think it’s usually about an hour and fifteen minutes on average. Harris’s comparable speeches are less than half that, often just under 30 minutes. As I have blogged before about this, according to the Bible, Trump’s long speeches reveal “vanity” and “transgression.”
The More the Words, the More the Vanity
Here are some in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible:
“When words are many, transgression is not lacking” (Proverbs 10:19).
“One who spares words is knowledgeable” (Proverbs 17:27).
“Let your words be few” (Proverbs 5:2).
“With many dreams come vanities and a multitude of words” (Proverbs 5:7).
“The more the words, the more vanity” (Proverbs 6:11).
“Yet fools talk on and on” (Proverbs 10:14).
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