On 9th November 2016 President Obama delivered a speech at the White House (Time Magazine, 2016). He addressed Donald Trump’s election as the net president of the United States. In the speech president, Obama exhibited all the elements of an effective speech. Laskowski (1997) points out that preparedness is one of the key aspects of speech delivery. During the execution of the speech, we can a see a sense of preparedness on the part of the president. There are no awkward pauses or moments of uncertainty. The president is relaxed throughout the delivery of the speech, we see him joke in the middle of the speech with Vice president Biden, and they all laugh it off. Right from the inception of the speech, we can see the president’s main…show more content… A good example is when he says he has lost elections before and it is only Biden who hasn’t. Newberg and Waldman (2012) insists on the use of non-verbal cues in speech delivery. The president pays attention to all the finer details and makes sure he stays with his audience all through. It is worth noting that the president applies non-verbal cues to stress most of his points. The way he positions his body and how he uses his hands whenever he is making a critical remark gives the audience an idea of how important the point is. How the president picks his position and the movement of his eyes throughout the speech is all part of his communication. From just looking at his eyes one can tell whenever he is going to make a joke and whenever he is making a serious point. The president uses tonal variation where necessary to stress his point. From the tone of the speech, the audience can tell the emotions that the president is trying to evoke. We can see a change of facial expression when he said he had called Hillary Clinton and also when he says that “That’s the way politics works sometimes. We try really hard to persuade people that we’re right and then people
