On 6 October 2019, the Trump administration ordered American troops to withdraw from northeastern Syria, where the United States had been supporting its Kurdish allies. Turkey began its military operation on 9 October 2019 when the Turkish Air Force launched airstrikes against the Kurdish people living in the towns…

Note: The C-Span video from which this particular analysis was made (affording specific camera views which were not available with other videos of this same testimony) is not compatible with Medium’s embedding software. Here, however, is the link to that same video. On Wednesday 23 October 2019, Facebook co-founder and…

When a person has little or no empathy — and/or when they’re far from their emotional baseline, their ability to interpret how others will view an event becomes dramatically distorted. Rarely has this behavioral axiom been better exemplified than last Wednesday at the White House. President Trump and members of…

Earlier today, President Trump spoke with Astronaut Jessica Meir, Ph.D. during her extravehicular activity (EVA) with Astronaut Christina Koch. This was the first-ever all-female EVA in history. During the initial portion of this conversation, Donald Trump spoke in error, saying that it was the “first-ever female spacewalk”. Astronaut Dr…

In this image, Trump is holding his hand to his ear. It’s a common gesture which, on its surface says, “Please speak louder / I can’t quite hear what you’re saying”. Presidents have performed this act for years — Ronald Reagan used it on nearly a daily basis. Of course…

Last week on 60 Minutes, Mohammed bin Salman was interviewed by Norah O’Donnell. What follows is a crucial portion of that interview evaluated in detail with nonverbal, verbal, and paralanguage analysis. NORAH O’DONNELL: Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi? MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN: Absolutely [drawn-out], ah-um — [pause]…

President Trump met with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday 20 September 2019. After their meeting, the two men took questions from the Press in the Oval Office. What follows is a partial nonverbal, verbal, and paralanguage analysis of a particularly important portion of that exchange. In response…

New allegations have been made against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In addition, multiple witnesses have indicated that last year’s investigations regarding Justice Kavanaugh’s alleged behavior were grossly incomplete. What follows is a partial nonverbal, verbal, and paralanguage analysis of a portion of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. Many times…

On Saturday afternoon, less than four days before the 18th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks, President Trump, via Twitter, told the world he had called-off what had been, up until that time, a clandestine plan for negotiating with the Taliban at Camp David. The next morning, US Secretary…