Writer of Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate Speech Praises Trump’s Oratory

What's that you say, Peter Robinson?

The writer of President Reaganโ€™s famous โ€œtear down this wallโ€ speech at the Brandenburg Gate praised President Trumpโ€™s formal speeches in an interview with Foreign Policy.ย 

Robinson said Trumpโ€™s Riyad speech last month โ€œfollows roughly the same pattern you saw at Brandenburg Gateโ€ with its message, โ€œWe intend to remain active in the world; however, we also call upon world leaders to play your part.โ€

Robinson went on to advise Trump to stop tweeting, and to assemble a speechwriting team so that he can stop delivering the sort of โ€œcrude,โ€ โ€œscattershot,โ€ โ€œundisciplinedโ€ talks that โ€œ[dilute] the moral authority of the presidencyโ€โ€”and instead, more โ€œactual speeches.โ€

(Robinson will be interviewed on C-SPAN at 2:35 EDT this Sunday, June 25, looking back on the 30th anniversary of Reaganโ€™s Berlin speech.โ€”DM

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