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Originally Posted by Ammi

...poor treasonous Melania often doesn’t seem to clap him or look too happy at all at even attending many things...off with her head, I say...

She isn't American though

But yes the problem with this is that he's being disingenuous... He's extremely media conscious, he's less concerned with the general feeling in a room than he is with appearances. He would LOVE to make it mandatory to get excited and jump up and down and clap, so that he could say "Hey you know, I made my speech... I made my speech and, uh, everyone clapped. Everyone was clapping and standing up and getting excited, you know, because we're doing great things here. Really great, good things. And you can see that everyone supports that."