To go off message
The book, “Let Trump Be Trump,” paints a portrait of a campaign with an untested candidate and staff rocketing from crisis to crisis, in which Lewandowski and a cast of mostly neophyte political aides learn on the fly and ultimately accept Trump’s propensity to go angrily off message. (The Washington Post.)
What is the exact meaning of the verb phrase "to go angrily off message" in the sentence above?
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Hi It's a quite common political idiom. Here, 'the message' is the way that a political party wishes to present itself to the public at a given time. Very often, this will be drawn up by advisors in some detail and all representatives are expected to say what has been drawn up in advance However, some representatives may say things that are not part of this message; they may even say things that contradict it.
- Hi It's a quite common political idiom.
- Here, 'the message' is the way that a political party wishes to present itself to the public at a given time.
- Very often, this will be drawn up by advisors in some detail and all representatives are expected to say what has been drawn up in advance However, some representatives may say things that are not part of this message; they may even say things that contradict it.
- In that case, they have 'gone off message'.
- Trump does this and appears to do it with some personal emotion, sometimes angrily Dave
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It's a quite common political idiom. Here, 'the message' is the way that a political party wishes to present itself to the public at a given time. Very often, this will be drawn up by advisors in some detail and all representatives are expected to say what has been drawn up in advance
However, some representatives may say things that are not part of this message; they may even
0go off message = to deviate or depart from the planned speech
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