"This is a whole new life for me now"
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Following up on yesterday's post about Rona Barrett's 10/6/1980 interview with Donald Trump, here's a sample from Lesley Stahl's 12/13/2016 interview:
| LesleyStahl: | well congratulations mister trump |
| you're president elect | |
| DonaldTrump: | thank you |
| LesleyStahl: | how surprised were you? |
| DonaldTrump: | well i really felt we were doing well i was on a string of about twenty one straight days of speeches |
| sometimes many a day | |
| and the last two days i really- i really had a | |
| pretty wild time i did six speeches and then i did seven | |
| and i- | |
| LesleyStahl: | everyone thought you were going to lose |
| DonaldTrump: | i know i did my final speech in michigan at one oclock in the morning and we had thirty one thousand people |
| many people outside of the arena | |
| and | |
| i felt- when i left i said how're we going to lose | |
| i- we set it up | |
| a day before | |
| and we had all of these people | |
| and it was literally at one oclock in the morning and i said | |
| this doesn't look like second place so we were really happy i mean it- it was | |
| these are great people | |
| LesleyStahl: | on election night |
| i heard you went completely silent | |
| was it a sort of | |
| realization | |
| of the enormity of this thing for you | |
| DonaldTrump: | i think so |
| it's enormous | |
| i've done a lot of big things i've never done anything like this it it | |
| it is so | |
| big it is so | |
| um | |
| it's so enormous it's so | |
| amazing | |
| LesleyStahl: | just took your breath away |
| couldn't talk | |
| DonaldTrump: | a little bit |
| a little bit and i think um | |
| i realized that | |
| uh this is a whole new life for me now | |
| LesleyStahl: | hillary called you |
| tell us about that phone call | |
| DonaldTrump: | so hillary called |
| and it was a | |
| lovely | |
| call | |
| and it was a tough call for her | |
| i mean i can imagine | |
| tougher for her than it would have been for me and for me it would have been very | |
| very difficult | |
| uh she couldn't have been nicer | |
| uh she just said congratulations donald | |
| well done | |
| and i said i want to thank you very much you were a great competitor she's very strong | |
| and very smart | |
| LesleyStahl: | what about bill clinton did you talk to him? |
| DonaldTrump: | he called the next day |
| LesleyStahl: | really what did he say? |
| DonaldTrump: | he actually called |
| last night | |
| LesleyStahl: | what did he say? |
| DonaldTrump: | and he uh |
| he couldn't have been more gracious | |
| he said it was an amazing run | |
| uh one of the most amazing he's ever seen | |
| LesleyStahl: | he said that |
| DonaldTrump: | he was very very |
| um | |
| really very nice | |
| LesleyStahl: | it was a pretty nasty campaign |
| do you regret any of the things you said about her? | |
| DonaldTrump: | well it was a double side nasty i mean they were tough and i was tough |
| and uh i- | |
| do i regert | |
| i mean i'm sitting here with you now | |
| and | |
| we're going to do a great job | |
| for the country we're going to make america great again i mean that's what | |
| it- it began with that and that's where we are right now there's so many things- | |
| LesleyStahl: | so no regrets… |
| DonaldTrump: | i can't regret no um |
| i wish it were softer i wish it were nicer i wish maybe even it was more on policy or whatever you want to say but | |
| LesleyStahl: | mm hmm |
| DonaldTrump: | but i will say that um it really |
| it really is something that i'm very proud of i mean it was a tremendous campaign |
Comparing f0 range (90th percentile minus 10th percentile), median f0, and amplitude-weighted mean f0 between this 2016 interview and the 1980 interview discussed in yesterday's post "I think it's a very mean life":
| F0 range (s.t.) | Median F0 | Weighted Mean F0 | WPM (Overall) | WPM (Speech only) | |
| Barrett 10/1980 | 6.0 | 103.6 Hz | 110.6 Hz | 189.6 | 230.9 |
| Stahl 12/2016 | 6.7 | 117.1 Hz | 121.8 Hz | 188.1 | 226.3 |
So far, these crude baseline prosodic parameters seem pretty stable despite the time difference of more than 36 years.
I've now identified and downloaded 72 interviews over the 1980-2017 period, so there will be some more of this in the future.
tangent said,
June 9, 2017 @ 12:42 am
Light up the Linguist Signal and send a speech act educator over to the Senate!
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
“He did not direct you to let it go?” Risch asked Comey.
“Not in his words, no,” Comey replied.
Risch: “He did not order you to let it go?”
Comey: “Again, those words were not an order.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article155079609.html