fireside chat on live television, and i will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. when you read it, it's a straight call. did you catch that? he wants to give a fireside chat. fdr's famed fireside chats were a series of evening radio broadcast addresses between 1933 and 1944. he used the colloquial conversation format to address the recession, the drought, the new deal and world war ii. they were meant to calm and reassure an anxious and despairing citizenry. he made the addresses from the diplomatic reception room from the white house and often bin his talk with the words, my friends, or my fellow americans. trump wanting to do a live reading of a call with a foreign head of state in which he abuses the office of the presidency is not a fireside chat, it's a stunt and a dumb one. fireside chats were meant to bring americans together, to