The proof is in the custard. When the president, or anyone, speaks, most people aren't listening. But on those occasions where it does matter, the content of the saying, or meaning, being speech, has significance beyond it's years. The whole, more or less, is some of its parts. Meaning if the meaning is insignificant, or confoundable, then that dog won't fly.
People can inferior the meaning of a thing from what was said.
If they like. But nobody really knows what we're in for. Until it happens, that is, and then, it's history. But you seem to be saying the voters are forgiving. They know that spoken English and written English are two sides of the same pot.