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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDanRather on Trumps inter I imagine there is quite a scene at the WH trying to contain the fallout
We have such a dumb joke as a President.
@DanRather
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A tip of the Stetson to Chris Wallace. A consummate pro. Tough. Prepared. Fair. Always ready with a fact check and a follow-up question. I imagine there is quite a scene at the White House trying to contain the fallout.
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@rgoodlaw
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Painful to watch, but good job by Chris Wallace.
Displays the psychological test that President Trump said he aced and claimed doctors were very surprised by his unbelievable results.
Wallace: The test asks you to identify an elephant.
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"Ready? Will you please get me the mortality rate? Kayleigh is right here... I heard we have the best mortality rate" - the WH just flat out made up a chart to create a false impression that the US has the best mortality rate in the world during Trump's interview w/ Chris Wallace
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"They have the sniffles ... many of those cases shouldn't even be cases" -- Trump is still downplaying the severity of contracting Covid-19
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"It is what it is" -- Trump on the mounting US coronavirus death toll
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"I'll be right eventually" -- Trump defends his comment that the coronavirus will "disappear" on its own
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"I don't believe in that ... masks cause problems too" -- Trump on possibility of a national mask mandate (masks do not cause problems)
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"First of all, I'm not losing. Because those are fake polls" -- Trump dismisses a Fox News poll showing Biden up by 8 points
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"Religion will be gone" -- Trump offers some absurd fear-mongering about what will happen if Biden is elected
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"I don't care what the military says" -- Trump dismisses military's support for renaming bases named after Confederate generals
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Mike 03
(16,616 posts)It's astonishing what is unfolding before our eyes.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)Hal Sparks did one of his MST3K airings of this thing last night. It's on his YouTube page. He points out most of the edits, along with his commentary. Some of them were pretty blatant I have no doubt the thing resulted in chaos among his staff. It's no wonder they had him out golfing all weekend. I'd love to know what got edited out...
Squinch
(51,075 posts)What's extraordinary is that no one is doing their jobs, especially no one at Fox.
Wallace didn't "hold his feet to the fire" or "ask the tough questions. " He pointed out the obvious each time Donny Bodybags tried to twist the obvious into something that was obviously untrue.
It is tragic that this is SO unusual and that this is considered a hard-hitting interview.
This interview magnitudes less challenging than any interview Obama ever gave.
This interview was the least everyone should do when talking to Donny Bodybags. It was easy questions lobbed to an uncoordinated trained seal, and the trained seal kept letting the questions hit him in the face instead of catching them.
ecstatic
(32,781 posts)did kind of give up and move on after the enormous spinning from trump.
In fairness, I'm not sure there's anyone alive with the level of working memory required to keep track of all of trump's distractions and deflections in real time.
The next person who gets trump in the chair needs to have at least 1 fact checker on-site and another person who can steer the questions back on track.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)I can't wait to see what the Lincoln Project does with this.
"Mr. Trump, this is an elephant. It is the symbol of the Republican Party."
denem
(11,045 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,029 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,144 posts)Can you imagine what people viewing this interview around the world thought! World leaders have known for the past three years that Trump is ignorant, but this interview solidifies the fact that Trump is also mentally challenged. The dictators of the worldPutin, Xi, Erdogan, Kimwill be working to subvert the November election because Trump is an absolute gift to them.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,803 posts)check it out. It would be funny under different circumstances, but it is just plain scary at this point. He is impaired and taking us over many cliffs, just for his own ego and sociopathy.
wnylib
(21,731 posts)thinks he is master of how people perceive him now and into the future.
People like his niece speak their own truth now. And more will do it once he is out of office, followed by a flood of information once he is dead.
What does it matter at that point? It matters for the future of the nation to expose the far reaching web of crooked and criminal influence on government that he carried out through the network of his family, Senate members, appointees, and Russian connections.
A lesson and a warning for the future on populism and on how to avoid fascism here at home.