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Trump devours Bloomberg editor for lunch: The former president abused John Micklethwait for asking perfectly reasonable questions
Spectator World ^ | 10/16/2024 | Freddy Gray

Posted on 10/16/2024 8:04:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/16/2024 8:04:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Abused? Hardly......what DJT did was paddle his little fanny behind the woodshed.


2 posted on 10/16/2024 8:07:13 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Trump let the pompus jerk know his globalist world view has destroyed America and especially the workers for decades. Tariffs stop the importing of slave wage goods to be made here.


3 posted on 10/16/2024 8:10:34 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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blah, blah, blah, polished expensive loafers, coiffed hair ...


4 posted on 10/16/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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It takes a lot of arrogance to claim that the economy has been handled well by these establishment types when there are deficits in every nation; immigration crises around the world; wars; and persistent poverty and underachieving just about everywhere in the world.

While these aren't all necessarily economic issues, they do have financial elements. And when someone comes along to challenge them, or propose a different way, they are shocked, angry and defiant.

5 posted on 10/16/2024 8:11:05 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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The purpose of the interview from Trump’s perspective is to elevate Trump’s candidacy. It is not to earn the most points from the debate judge. If interviewers (not this WSJ guy necessarily, but most of them) are going to give loaded questions and interrupt his answers and try to say things to hurt him and take him out of context, he has the obligation to do what he can to get HIS message out.

This is the new political reality.


6 posted on 10/16/2024 8:14:41 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Kamala Harris has been criticizing Donald Trump for ducking interviews.

What joke.

7 posted on 10/16/2024 8:17:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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What was “Spectator” watching? I guess we can’t believe our lying eyes.


8 posted on 10/16/2024 8:17:44 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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And yet Trump got a standing ovation


9 posted on 10/16/2024 8:20:09 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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“Freddy?”I’ve listened the first 2/3s, it’s Mickelthwite who’s running for cover the whole time on the substance, trying to cut Trump off. (this is going to focus on economic topics”...”what about Putin, did you talk with him since you left office ?” “the bipartisan.. blah, blah, blah has said your programs will add twice as much to the federal debt as Harris’s, what do you say to that?” “it’s all about growth, Kamala has nothing in her plans about growth.” mickelthwaite got concerned about having to answer to Michael Bloomberg, no doubt. I wonder who Freddy has to answer to.


10 posted on 10/16/2024 8:27:22 AM PDT by sopo
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“Is that true? Does anyone care? If Kamala Harris speaks in confusing word salads, Trump can speak in even more baffling fruit jellies — even as he insists he’s all about “common sense.” The effect is hypnotic.“

You’d never know wading through this self congratulating hipsters self congratulating hipster prose that Trump was president for four years. How’d he do? Schmuck!


11 posted on 10/16/2024 8:28:31 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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Trump really needs to publicly push back on the tariffs bogeyman. The reasons why US companies prefer to buy from third-world manufacturers . . .
- Paltry wages
- Zero benefits
- Child labor
- 12-hour work shifts
- NO environmental regulations
- NO US safety requirements
- NO lawsuits
The tariffs are necessary to equalize the trash conditions of third-world labor sites. If America is okay with buying products made under these conditions of manufacturing, why do we have these requirements on the throats of US manufacturers?
12 posted on 10/16/2024 8:46:59 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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Awww. Poor globalist snowflake feels abused. The horror!


13 posted on 10/16/2024 8:49:04 AM PDT by mbrfl
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From the article:

Micklethwait is a brilliant man...

Trump is a rude seventy-eight-year-old force of nature...

abused Micklethwait for asking perfectly reasonable questions...

Micklethwait gently tried to confront Trump...

Trump snapped back...

Micklethwait bravely insisted...

On tariffs, Micklethwait gently tried to confront Trump with the possible problems his second administration might cause if it pursues an even harder protectionist line. “It must be hard for you to spend twenty-five years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re wrong,” said Trump.

One area regarding tariffs that bothered me was when President Trump tried to explain to Micklethwait his reasoning regarding how tariffs would work to better the United States economy:

  1. Trump wants to apply tariffs against countries that block reciprocal American products from their markets, e.g., American autos in Germany or France, American wines in France.

    Selling our products in overseas markets would improve our economy.

  2. Trump wants to apply tariffs where countries are undercutting American products, e.g., steel and lumber from China.

    Encouraging American companies to source raw materials from within the United States would improve our economy.

  3. Trump wants to waive tariffs when countries build manufacturing plants in the United States if they want to sell their products here.

    People are free to purchase foreign products like BMWs and Toyotas if they want to pay the higher prices, but if Germany or Japan want to manufacture them here (not just assemble them from parts manufactured overseas), they can employ American workers and use American raw materials to improve our economy.

  4. Trump wants to use tariffs to encourage American companies that offshored vital national manufacturing to return those manufacturing plants back to the United States.

    Auto manufacturing is being moved to Mexico, military manufacturing has been reduced to the point where we can't swiftly replenish our capability, steel manufacturing is falling, the related ore mining and energy production to support domestic manufacturing has declined, household durable goods manufacturing (e.g., home appliances) has fallen, and the jobs associated with the entire supply chain to sustain this manufacturing have disappeared. Rebuilding our manufacturing base across the board will provide jobs and improve our economy.

Micklethwait's reply to all of this was "that will take a lot of time."

The answer that President Trump should give to globalists that want the status quo to remain should simply be this:

How long did it take us to offshore our manufacturing and decimate our economy? We should at least be allowed to take some of that time to bring it back.

-PJ

14 posted on 10/16/2024 9:12:05 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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What these “expensive loafers” types simply don’t understand about DJT is that he is many things. Part entertainer, part story teller, part savvy politician, part CEO, part regular guy. As he said, he is also a weaver. He weaves the many parts of himself into all of his public appearances. That makes him brilliant, compelling, sometimes annoying, but always fascinating.


15 posted on 10/16/2024 9:21:12 AM PDT by Avalon Memories ( )
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Who needs LSD

Apparently, you do, Freddy.

16 posted on 10/16/2024 9:40:22 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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Sowell has a piece on youse tube about how the elites have shaped public opinion to nobody's advantage. This sounds like another attempt at that.

The diminishing number of cabinet members that actually have any private sector experience or ever worked for a paycheck or wrote one has been very small for this age of demoncraps.

17 posted on 10/16/2024 9:54:34 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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Trump should simply say: “Let’s compare balance sheets.”


18 posted on 10/16/2024 10:18:36 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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bump


19 posted on 10/16/2024 10:31:27 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
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icklethwait is a brilliant man: polished, Ampleforth and Oxford, highly successful. His hair is coiffed and his loafers look expensive.

I think the author, Freddy Gray might be in luuuuuvvvv ...

20 posted on 10/16/2024 10:34:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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