Why do Americans often elect a president with a wierd speaking intonation?

[Tom Jones]

I’m no expert on US presidents but so many speak with such a strange cadence it can’t be a coincidence.

 

[Deleted member 23778]

They don't you're just stupid

 

[Deleted member 5815]

they dumb themselves down and speak that way to be understood by the masses

 

[Tom Jones]

They don't you're just stupid

Yeah I know I’m stupid but tell me have the last 4 presidents not had a peculiar way of speaking.

 

[Tom Jones]

they dumb themselves down and speak that way to be understood by the masses

That must be it. Good post

 

[OldRooster]

Bush 43 and Carter and Johnson were Southerners and spoke like normal Southerners. Bush 41 was kind of an odd speaker. JFK spoke like a normal 60s Bostonian. The rest were pretty normal. I suspect old recordings of FDR sound odd in cadence because of the technology of the time.

 

[Tom Jones]

Bush 43 and Carter and Johnson were Southerners and spoke like normal Southerners. Bush 41 was kind of an odd speaker. JFK spoke like a normal 60s Bostonian. The rest were pretty normal. I suspect old recordings of FDR sound odd in cadence because of the technology of the time.

I think JFK sounded quite idiosyncratic.
Obviously they have had some lessons on how to speak clearly, which often means slower.
Obama and Trump both had a strange cadence and intonation.

 

[Trilogy]

uhhhhhhh my fellow looksmaxxers, let me be clear

 

[Tom Jones]

uhhhhhhh my fellow looksmaxxers, let me be clear

 

[Tom Jones]

Bush 43 and Carter and Johnson were Southerners and spoke like normal Southerners. Bush 41 was kind of an odd speaker. JFK spoke like a normal 60s Bostonian. The rest were pretty normal. I suspect old recordings of FDR sound odd in cadence because of the technology of the time.

During the 70s and most of the 80s they did sound normal. But then I feel they started to rely on their speaking coach advice too much

 

[Hero of the Imperium]

Bush 43 and Carter and Johnson were Southerners and spoke like normal Southerners. Bush 41 was kind of an odd speaker. JFK spoke like a normal 60s Bostonian. The rest were pretty normal. I suspect old recordings of FDR sound odd in cadence because of the technology of the time.

43 was a northern yankee, a fake southerner

FDR is probably an archaic accent, perhaps trans atlantic influence.

I have not heard him in a long time and am not going to youtube now, but I am a relative old cel myself (though not as old as you, no offense) and I have heard similar accents from even older people back when they were still alive

America is controlled now by corporations, military industrial complex, etc it has developed "elite" factions and is no longer we the people. it is converging with the rest of the world and historical norms. the presidency does not pass unnoticed without their say

 

[Deleted member 22063]

They're all old or take speaking lessons and grow up educated already so they sound a bit different.