Republicans urge Trump to avoid 2020 debate pitfalls: ‘Don’t take the bait’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4733881-republicans-trump-debate/?nxs-test=mobile
Republicans urge Trump to avoid 2020 debate pitfalls: ‘Don’t take the bait’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4733881-republicans-trump-debate/?nxs-test=mobile
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Well…Trump being Trump, I’m not sure if he’ll resist the urge to avoid the pitfalls.
I think the red lights that take off that he sees after he’s done speaking for over two minutes (which inevitably it’ll do)….
This is like telling a fly not to land on shit.
Spoiler: *He did.*
Everybody gives Trump advice. He only talks. He doesn’t listen
I wish they had live fact checking during the debate. Maybe a “bullshit siren” or something like that.
His fat, stupid mouth will do everything it wants to do. The trouble is, a lot of people will see his BS as tantamount to the Gettysburg Address or The Sermon on the Mount. People are just too dumb and Trump is their Messiah.
Meanwhile, Biden will have psychologists coaching him on how to trigger a narcissist.
Can his brain handle that?
At a certain point somebody with dementia reaches a point of no return.
He already took the bait agreeing to debate.
He has no control over his personality disorders.
Right! “If [Trump] comes in there and just shows strength and leadership but maintains a calm demeanor and lets Biden go, it goes well for him.”
Yeah sure, he’ll maintain calm a demeanor like he always does when speaking about something important. Just look how calm he was when he was talking to the media during and after his last three court cases.
“Dont take the bait (cause everyone knows you’re gonna embarrass yourself).” is what they are really saying.
Pretty pathetic when your own “supporters” expect you to make a fool of yourself lol
Biden: “… and also welcome to my opponent. I’m glad you were able to be here. I scheduled this debate early so I could spank you in public on policy and character before you’re sentenced to prison time for your felony convictions.”
The debate pitfalls for convicted felon Trump start with him just showing up for a debate.
New campaign slogan thats short but sweet: Republicans dont solve problems, they create them.
Also Republicans: Demoncrats are destroying America! Yeah, that’s right all of them in history including your square-dancing church leader mom! Sure, that’s credible! We have better judgment and new ideas! Behold the Fraudlord for the THIRD time! Mike drop like Sexual Chocolate.
Also Republicans: Dang, if Trump would shut or control his stupid mouth everything would be ok because then it is easier on us to ignore the fascism, incompetence, and career criminality of the man. Internet ad: Just this one little trick would make liberals cry! Man, if you guys could govern or just primary out actual fascists with the same energy you use to polish a gold electroplate turd, you wouldn’t be about to eat a record loss again.
Can’t help it..Man’s obsessed with sharks..and snakes… electricity, batteries, fake erections, dictators dicks and cognificies..
DJT having self control? Lol
What are the chances Trump will say ‘I’m not a felon, *you’re* a felon’ to Biden?
‘Don’t take the bait’ means Trump shouldn’t answer any questions, right?
Will it even matter if he does? During the last debates he couldn’t denounce white supremacy and told violent extremists to “stand back and stand by.” His fan base is so stupid and malleable that he could say anything at these debates and they’d find a way to believe it was the capital T Truth.
What bait? You can’t shut the dude up. You don’t need bait for him to say something stupid/terrible.
Biden’s opening statement: “My fellow Americans, tonight I stand on this stage beside a 34 time convicted felon awaiting sentencing, a man liable for sexual assault, a serial fraudster, a serial loser, a demagogue who fomented the most serious attack on our democracy in a century, and a man who’s filled more diapers than my eldest grandson….”
This makes me laugh.
I remember exactly this tone of article four years ago.
‘If he can just be calm and stoic he’ll win!’
No.
No, he can’t. No, he won’t. Because he has *never, ever, EVER* done that. He didn’t in 2016, he didn’t in 2020 and he won’t here. The only reason it worked in 2016 was because no one knew how to react to it and didn’t take it seriously.
He has *always* been a whiny, petulant blowhard and expecting any different from him now, eight years on, is characteristic of brain damage.
Let’s go back to the first year of his one term. Rex Tillerson, former CEO of EXXON/Mobil a worldwide conglomerate, barely served as Trumps first Secretary of State. He quit and later called Trump a “fucking moron”.
Here we about eight years down the road and Trump is older and even more of a “fucking moron”. He won’t win this debate although he will, in his way, claim he has. Only his cult will believe him. The rest of us better pay attention and NOT let this moron back in our Whitehouse!
**Ron Howard:** *(voiceover)* “He took the bait.”
Dumbass has turned this country into a laughing stock. Holy shit
> “No puppet. No puppet. YOU’RE the PUPPET.”
— Russian puppet during 2016 debates
He has the right to remain silent, but not the ability.
Narrator:
“He took the bait.”
One strategy that I think would work extremely well for Biden is to answer questions with a legitimate, well-reasoned response, but always end it with something that will result in an unhinged Trump follow-up. Especially stuff from his campaign rallies which are probably more engrained in his head than debate prep.
Example: “I negotiated and signed into law a bi-partisan infrastructure bill that provided trillions of dollars to communities across the country, solving problems and creating jobs. Donald can’t decide if he’d rather be on a boat with batteries or get eaten by sharks.”
Trump won’t help himself, he’ll completely forget the first part about infrastructure and talk about how smart his MIT uncle said he is for asking the battery vs sharks question (which is a real thing he talks about during his rallies).
>His campaign has spent weeks lowering expectations around Biden’s performance, portraying the president as weak, ailing and mentally incompetent.
>But Trump’s team is also preparing for the possibility that Biden exceeds expectations, laying the foundation to dismiss the performance as a charade — just as it did after Biden’s State of the Union address in early March.
I can understand playing it both ways. **Biden is at the same time slow and sleepy AND doing fake energy**, but I really don’t think it works like that.
If people see a competent, coherent Biden, they’ll not think it a charade. Even now the Trump camp’s attempts at making Biden look too old is only working on Staunch right wing voters. Biden’s numbers are low but they are low for other reasons.
Moderate and independent voters see both as old and tired.
It’s going to be harder for trump to make this a clown show but make no mistake he will. I imagine even though he will be muted the camera will still be on him making faces like a petulant child.
“he was also visibly sweating, a fact that was compounded days later when he tested positive for COVID-19. “
He tested positive before the debate and didn’t disclose it, then spit and shouted in Biden’s direction. We can’t forget he tried to kill Biden, and almost successfully killed Chris Christie.
They really are trying to set the bar so low for Trump that if he doesn’t start flinging his own feces around they’re going to declare it a “yuge” victory.