Joe Biden just seized on one of Donald Trump’s biggest mistakes

| 4:00 pm EDT August 31, 2020
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Joe Biden just delivered a nationally televised speech about civil unrest in the United States, and his speech is bound to send shockwaves. The rest of the news cycle will be dominated by what Biden had to say about bringing the country together, and about why Donald Trump is at fault for the current unrest. In so doing, Biden also seized on one of Trump’s big mistakes.

Biden’s speech was big news today because he hadn’t given a national speech in a week. He’s picking his spots and he’s making it count. He knows that people only tune in to hear you speak about something if you’re not already constantly speaking about it.

Contrast this with Donald Trump, who keeps holding national press conferences and keeps constantly running his mouth, even when he has nothing to say. There’s a reason the TV ratings for Trump’s Republican convention were so low. People are tired of hearing from him. The public is tuning him out.

Real leaders only speak when something needs to be said. Donald Trump is no leader, of course. One of his biggest mistakes is that he constantly runs his mouth in narcissistic fashion, meaning he can’t get people to tune in and care even when he does think he has something to say.