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Stephen Colbert called President Trump a number of choice names on Wednesday night’s episode of The Late Show following a puzzling, unscheduled press conference held outside the White House earlier that day. “I don’t know where you guys live, but you guys ever see a crazy old guy yelling on …

Maybe this is all Aaron Sorkin’s fault. The Big Speech has always been a powerful tool in politics, and no format is more consistently attention-getting than the public emperor-has-no-clothes soliloquy. Speechifying probably peaked in American politics in the second half of the 19th century, when (aided by the lack of …