Answered from 585. Rory Goes to a Trump Rally and Will the Youth Protests Spread to Britain? · The Rest Is Politics · 2026-11-03
Rory Stewart sat through Trump's hour-and-a-quarter speech in Chillicothe, Ohio, and found it mesmerising rather than boring. He said Trump spoke like a man at ease with friends, using pacing, pauses and jokes, rambling about his White House repairs as a compliment to a home-restoring crowd. The Republican speakers before him were dull by comparison. Stewart also noted the small gym, about 2,000 people, and some of the crowd drifting off before the end.
“it feels as though he's a guy leaning at a bar, totally at ease.” Rory Stewart · at 31:22 — open in the transcript →
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