Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I accidentally heard part of the President's news conference yesterday when I was driving.  I figured I could handle listening for a few minutes.  There was the usual bragging, exaggeration and vindictive trashing of anyone he considers is not toeing his line.  But his style of speech is so confusing and irrational that he's hard to follow.  There seems to be no line of reasoning whatsoever.  He blusters.  He bluffs.  He contradicts himself and that the facts.  I came away sort of sorry for him.  He appears to be unintelligent, though perhaps he's just unbalanced or ignorant.  You get the feeling he gets his information from sound bites, tweets and headlines in the grocery store.  This person clearly does not read, at all, and that is a tragedy.  For us at least.  He's gotten by beginning from rich and puffing up or scaring everyone around him into compliance.  He doesn't seem to realize he can't fire the American people.  Someone's mighty spoiled.  And yet he seems to identify with blue collar workers, with whom he's never even shared a beer.  It looks like he feels he's been and being treated unfairly and that makes him their ally.  Whatever his childhood or adulthood history, he makes the leap to being the underdog and a lot of people by into that idea.  There is some profound wound.  And his clumsy attempt to redress it probably will end up an excellent movie.  But right now, this appears to be a man with personal issues.  Only personal issues.  That's scary.