Unfortunately, that’s politics. They all score points that way. That’s reality.
And of course we have to prioritize, and yes it was a gotcha question. By now, Trump should know they’re coming and have at the ready something to neutralize it, something along the lines of what you mentioned, that it’s a distraction and he’ll not get caught up in it (that would work for a lot of the gotchas).
Instead, he made a point of saying that the NC law wasn’t necessary. Apparently NC felt it was necessary.
He also said it would be discriminatory to build bathrooms to accommodate them. What’s that all about?
It may be costly and a hardship, but saying it’s discrimination is PC - which is the one thing I always count on him being, un-PC. Wish he’d thought it out better.
Discriminatory towards businesses owners.
I also wish he’d thought it out better. Hopefully he’ll improve.