17 Year Old, Kai Trump, And Her Father, Donald Trump, Jr. On Public Speaking

Overcoming The First Challenge, The Pressure Of Performance, and Embracing Spontaneity In Public Speaking

DONALD TRUMP JR: Hardest part, actually, is actually having the guts to get out there and do it the first time. Right? And follow up. Or even if it's not perfect, to do it again and again.

KAI TRUMP: After doing the RNC, a lot of things made it like speaking in class, doing presentations, then doing the speech.

DONALD: Well, you spoke at one of the largest stages maybe anywhere in the world. And so, you know, and you crushed it. And, you know, if you can do that as difficult as it is, you know you have that ability. Some people never get comfortable with it. Like, if I didn't get comfortable public speaking, I couldn't do what I do. The pressure is what matters, right? I learned a lot more by actually putting yourself in real pressure then. And if you can handle pressure, that's a whole game changer. There's, you know, how many guys are, you know, they're great on the driving range. You know, they're great when they're playing with one friend or by themselves. And then you put them in front of other people or you add a camera. And it's a whole different world, and not everyone can rise to that occasion. If you can do both, that oftentimes comes with experience. Like I talked to you about public speaking when you spoke at the inauguration, when you spoke at the RNC.

KAI: Doing the YouTube stuff and filming, it's a lot easier to talk in public now.

DONALD: You'll find with this, especially like with YouTube or with personal, you know, if you do something and it's not perfect and you try to do it again, it is almost worse. Like your best take is almost always your first take if you're trying to be natural, right? If you're not doing anything choreographed, if you're just doing it like real, like, you know, my first take, that's why these days when I speak, I can, you know, get in front of 15,000 people. I don't even know what I'm going to say when I get on stage. And I just read the room and I figure it out and go from there.

KAI: Well, I remember at the inauguration when we went on stage, I was like planning on saying maybe like a few things. I asked you, So what are you going to talk about? And he goes, honestly, I have no clue. I'm just going to walk out there and see what happens.

DONALD: And you're like, wait, what?

KAI: And I look at you, I go, wait, what? Like, what are you talking about? You're like, you know, just whenever I'm out there, it just comes to me. I'm like, all right, well, that's just not me.

DONALD: But for me these days, that's like an average Tuesday, right? It's like I'm just speaking. So you do it so you just get so comfortable, right? It's like, you know, a cage fighter, you know, for any normal person, you're like, wow, that's crazy. For them, it's that's work. They just go in a cage every day and fight people. Like, it's what they do. So everything's different. And it's just the more you do those things, the easier it gets.

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