For some people, there's a certain appeal to leaders who follow their gut when making decisions and "shooting from the hip" when they speak. They see a kind of realness in it that seems absent from a carefully prepared speech that files off anything that might sound politically unpopular.
However, recent years have given more opportunities than many of us would like to realize that this preferred kind of talk isn't necessarily any realer than a calculated speech. While the latter can involve cherry-picking facts that make the speaker look good and downplaying the ones that don't, the "shoot from the hip" approach doesn't necessarily have any basis in fact at all.
And a recent statement from President Donald Trump illustrates the important difference between what someone might believe to be true and what actually is true.