Speechwriter Jon Favreau spilled the beans on the gesture that brought down the house
Kevin Manahan | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, but Obama’s hand gestures mocked Trump, the former president and Republican presidential nominee, in a not-so-subtle way that even Sen. Marco Rubio —
“Here’s a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually been getting worse now that he’s afraid of losing to Kamala. As he spoke about sizes, Obama moved his hands in an accordion fashion, stopping when they were pretty close together, then looking down and smirking — as the packed house in Chicago roared.“I was stunned,” Favreau said. “I’ll give you a little of the backstory. We’d been going through the Trump section , what he’s going to say about Trump, and most of that was led by him. That’s how he wanted to frame it. We had a couple different examples in there of, like, Trump’s whining. We had 2 a.m.
“And then when I was watching the speech from the floor and saw him do that. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh! Wow!’ It’s very unlike him.”“I don’t know, in the moment, he really, he kind of, he hammed it up, though,” Favreau said. “I will tell you that if it was a planned thing, it was planned only in his mind. But he does that sometimes with speeches. He did this with the eulogy — a much more serious note —He was, like, ‘I might sing, if the mood strikes me, but I don’t know. I don’t think so.
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