Fairly or unfairly, I think Obama was/is thought of as an equivocator. He rarely says this is so; he shades and hedges and qualifies. Drives many people up the wall. It's part of why I gravitated towards him--NV's "being full of doubt in a doubtful reality." (No need to chime in, Morbius--we know, he never equivocated about drone strikes.)
Trump, of course, is at the other end of spectrum. Not a trace of uncertainty in every ridiculous thing he says.
― clemenza, Friday, 5 June 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link