HOW TO GET ACROSS A SERIOUS MESSAGE – AND GET SOME LAUGHS ALONG THE WAY IF PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN CAN DO IT, SO TOO CAN YOU!!! There’s a learnable skill in getting laughs from an audience - and landing a deadly serious message off the back of them. Amazingly America’s much-derided President Joe Biden has just demonstrated how to do it. Sure he’s not quite in the same league as those star quality American presidential communicators of the past - Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, John F Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt. But, at the latest annual dinner of White House media correspondents in Washington DC, Joe Biden did an pretty good performance job - admittedly with the help of excellent presidential speech-writers. Jo Biden used the occasion to effectively ridicule his easy-to-laugh-at presidential opponent, Donald Trump and members of The 45th President Donald Trump Appointee and Alumni Group - and even used some admirable self-deprecation about his own age to help set the scene. And from there he moved on to make a serious point about the future of U.S. democracy – making historic reference to the American Civil War General Robert E Lee and the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels while addressing an audience of politicians and media representatives. Check it out for some good laughs and the serious point at: https://lnkd.in/e-S6KJQE #presentationskills #presentation #corporatecommunications #mediatraining #communications #mediarelations #media #interviewskills #interviews #interviewsuccess #reputation #comms
Biden roasts Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/
Humour really can help get a point across Michael Dodd and even a serious message. I wonder if there’s a difference if someone else wrote the speech for you or if reading from an autocue
That's my coffee break viewing sorted, Michael Dodd. You certainly do enjoy watching political speeches! Thank you for bringing the worthy ones to our attention.
Biden and Trump make the USA a global laughing stock.
Group Chairman at Vistage UK (awesome groups of leaders determined to be better) iMA Practitioner
4moI can’t say the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up or I felt particularly inspired watching this Michael Dodd . It was fascinating but mostly as it never seemed certain if he would get all his intended words out or not