Posted on 08/07/2020 2:12:11 AM PDT by Cronos
...We caught a glimpse of it last month when Chris Wallace of Fox News dismantled Trump’s argument that Joe Biden wants to defund the police. But we saw the complete picture on Monday night when with the help of a few color-coordinated charts the president hopelessly stumbled and bumbled his way through a train wreck of an interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios, which aired on HBO. ... Because the president didn’t have the luxury of calling on another reporter, he was forced to at least attempt to clarify his nonsensical arguments, like why the percentage of the American population that has died due to COVID-19 complications isn’t really that important. He could not do this, of course, and the result was one of the most incoherent, depressing, and flat-out embarrassing interviews of Trump’s presidency.
...jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”
realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.” ... When Swan points out that only 300 people in South Korea have died, out of a population of over 50 million, Trump says, “You don’t know that,” implying the nation is lying about its death rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at au.rollingstone.com ...
President Trump should not be falling for MSM tactics and should just wait for the debates - he'll demolish Biden
the video of this interview.
Idiots don’t know it’s the IFR that shows success/failure.
And advertisers LOVE IDIOTS.
Who’s the person that still pays attention to rolling stoned?
those fossils :)
Just diverting from smooth old Uncle Joe whose media interactions always make him look good.
It doesn’t look good to dismiss the number of deaths. I hope he comes up with a better response because this question will be asked again.
‘he’ll demolish Biden’
you’re certain of that, are you...? because Trump has set Biden up as such a dummy, it will be simple for Joe to hold his own in the debate, simply by not drooling and soiling his pants... and if there’s one thing Biden is a master at, it’s obfuscating so much that the other guy can’t get a point across...
Trump won’t have the luxury of debating an overconfident, under informed ideologue like Hillary Clinton this time, who was easy to fluster; and if Trump gets knocked off stride like this guy did to him, we’ll be looking at the most inept debate contestants in quite some time.
I didn’t want to say this before, but his answers are possibly showing signs of dementia. I hope it’s not true, but he’s been pretty out of it this whole year.
This is one of the worst interviews I’ve seen since Prince Andrew’s. I can’t even finish it. I’m sick.
‘Idiots don’t know it’s the IFR that shows success/failure.’
so why didn’t Trump make that point clearly and concisely...? instead of shuffling papers...?
I agree. Democrats and the media are setting expectations so low for Biden, he may come off as the winner. The Trump campaign should not play along with this.
Well, if RS was addressing music I might care what they said...
But probably not these days.
I remember back in 1968 or 1969 when Rolling Stone was first being published. Most content was music-related, but I do remember one of the first news Thai particles that I read in their magazine. Was about global cooling and he’ll snowball Earth was coming. I wonder how did that work out for them? LOL
The way hospitals are restricted, they have to over count deaths as covid related, especially in Democrat areas. Trump got trapped by their ambush and still fails to see the pattern
” make that point clearly and concisely...? “
As reported by RS?
Be serious LOL!
So I guess Trump should limit his appearances to Hannity and answer softball questions only.
Thai = type
‘This is one of the worst interviews I’ve seen since Prince Andrew’s. I can’t even finish it. I’m sick.’
Trump is exhausted here, it’s obvious...he boasted too much early on about needing little sleep to function, but he’s three years older now and facing a very hostile opposition who’ve been handed the perfect weapon to use against him; a over hyped viral bug, that they can manage like puppeteers, pulling strings to raise or lower public panic...it’s one thing to run for president against a disliked opponent whose husband was already in the White House, and another to run against a panicked electorate...
China played this brutally well; not artfully, because they killed a lot of their own, but they got their message across... ‘the rest of you in the world, be like us, so we can absorb you...’
LOL!
Stupid people will always seek stupid explanations.
I don’t think Trump needs the “stupid vote” (you obviously disagree), though it would be nice.
Yeah, at best he’s clearly tired. I’m really hoping that’s all it is and for God’s sake keep him away from Twitter for awhile!
The position ages everyone, go in dark haired, go out white.
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