00:00he seems very certain his body language is always authoritative uh when it relates to that he's got
00:07certain gestures that he uses um there's one very specific one he uses all the time like finish
00:13the job he used that a number of times which is one he uses to accentuate this is
00:18this one is essentially called the soft warrior that's what they call it is where it's a warrior
00:23like gesture what he really wants to do is to do this which is the sword pointed up like a
00:28uh you know a finger pointed up like a sword but a lot of politicians will avoid that because it's
00:35a
00:35bit too over overly authoritative so this little gesture and provides precision but the same times
00:41punches out his message which is finish the job all politicians have had some form of uh media
00:48training there's no doubt however trump bucks the trend with everything that he does so he tends to
00:55speak without thinking it through because i think he's just at that stage where he kind of
01:03believes he's invincible and he just wants to he just wants to like there's very little body language
01:08that he's hiding he just doesn't i'm gonna say doesn't care that's unfair but he he doesn't have
01:14a problem in just speaking whatever his truth is so he tends to speak off the cuff um and you
01:21know
01:21that's kind of both good and sometimes could be seen as bad his body language is very consistent
01:28throughout he will use gestures that are classic authoritarian ones he's got the choppy hand
01:37he often does this one when explaining which means he's expanding an idea he if he only puts his arms
01:44out
01:44like this whenever he's in he knows the audience and responds well to him and he's opening himself up
01:51uh to the audience for their sort of view or applause so if he can control the narrative that's what
01:58he
01:58wants he wants to avoid questions no doubt that would put him into a difficult situation so i mean that's
02:06not a body language but he'll tend to respond uh aggressively back to a question that is a question that
02:13puts
02:13him on the on into uh into the hot spot if you like he would tend to say that's just
02:17a stupid
02:17question what a stupid question that is to be asking at this time we're talking about something
02:23else it's just you know like he'll he'll turn things around a classic negotiation tool that he'll use
02:28is when someone is being assertive aggressive towards him he'll combat that back the other way
02:33rather than be defensive at one point he classically kind of did this gripping both wrists
02:39um which is like classic sort of cuffing holding the wrists it's like you're holding yourself back
02:46because like if you do this then you can't express through the hands normally your hands would be
02:50expressive which means you're generally more open this is more you know let's keep it in kind of
02:56gesture um so in that moment it would suggest that he felt slightly self-conscious or you know what
03:02didn't want to uh become too emotionally responsive in that moment with the answers to his questions
03:09other than that yeah classic body language signals that suggest he is not concerned about showing
03:14his opinion or his belief at all he's not being statesman like in that way classically where
03:21he's not very sane very much and therefore you read for the body language the two things are pretty
03:26much mirrored classically because his speeches aren't particularly written they don't actually finish
03:32well some of the points don't have natural endings they sometimes eat that the waffle as you call it or
03:39the where it sort of tails off is when he then goes off and and does some kind of anecdotal
03:44which is really
03:45just a thought that he's had in that moment which can sometimes be amusing sometimes can be poignant but
03:52also sometimes can feel like waffle because it's really ad-libbed and not thought through
03:58if you look at most leaders previously like that they will be authoritarian i mean churchill was very
04:05different because he was uh poetically expressive um and so he would pull people into his message
04:12he'd have a core central message that he'd build the things around um and he would have he'd speak in
04:19like prose whereas trump of course isn't much he's not polished in that exact same way he's more just
04:25raw as opposed to statesman like so there's the there's your big difference between the two
04:31um whereas churchill would they both have that same ability to tap into an emotion or a group of folks
04:44who
04:44are disenfranchised uh marginalized for example or people that have a a kind of common enemy
04:54so he's very good at finding that common enemy making the enemy whomever it is whether it's china
05:00or iran and and and painting them as a picture he's very much uh wants to come across as a
05:07leader of the
05:07people and to care about their plight and that's very much the message i don't think it's actually
05:15that deliberate um like it's not necessarily calculated on that macro scale i think it just ties
05:23into naturally what he believes about america about what why it the way it is and so that that means
05:32that everything he's saying is congruent because now whether he's whether what his beliefs are our
05:37beliefs that are uh beliefs that most of us would adopt or empowering beliefs for the for america in total
05:45he's definitely found and continues to find division
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