"If you’re running for president, you should not be allowed to use a teleprompter." Donald Trump, August 2015
After a full year ridiculing his rival candidates for relying on a teleprompter and finding himself on a shorter leash from his new handlers, the Republican presidential nominee has fully embraced the tool. There is, of course, one key difference: He is bad at it.
But although the machine was designed to help public speakers appear more natural and maintain eye contact with their audience, it appears to have the opposite effect on Trump. On occasion, Trump also has misread words, sometimes to embarrassing effect.
At an Aug. 8 Detroit speech on the economy, he said his ideas would help “titties” like Detroit, rather than cities. On Aug. 24 in Tampa, he said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had created a private email server “deliberately, willfully and with pre-medication.”
And on Wednesday, Trump read “amnesty” – a key trigger word among his hardcore, anti-immigration base – as “amnety.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-teleprompter-speeches_us_57c89561e4b078581f1232f5
