5 Takeaways From Trump’s Fox News Interview | Talking Points Memo

President Trump aired numerous grievances when pressed by Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace during a lengthy interview that aired Sunday morning.


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Et tu vulpes?

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This is 110% narcasism. Lincoln project will mine this for clips for weeks. The most devastating is him again denying Covid-19 is a problem, claiming we are doing better than Europe as they “don’t test in Europe”. :scream:. Just bonkers

We just passed 140,000 deaths, with the worst being in red/swing states (FL, AZ, and now swinging - due to trump TX, GA, even SC) and trump is asking people who are losing jobs and life to just forget about it, pretend it is not happening and just send their kids back to school. So not gonna end well for him politically.

As Nate silver (who keeps arguing trump has better chance than the numbers suggest) admitted, the biggest issue Trump has is he can’t change:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1284851929164795906

And about that “FOX NEWS” Poll that wallace confronted him with:

ABC/Post out with their poll last night (538 A+ pollster), had Biden at 55%, Trump at 40% (RV). I - and basically everyone else who is looking at the numbers - believes that Covid-19 approval is basically the entire game, as covid-19 approval goes so goes the election. here is what the Post found on Trump’s covid approval numbers:

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And here is the head to head:

I raise this because basically every poll - on line, or live operator poll shows Trump’s handling of Covid-19 is being viewed (as reality would suggest) worse and worse as he withdraws and infections climb.

But the FOX News Poll has these numbers:


No fall, flat ratings on Covid-19 over the last two months. And note also how Fox’s march/April numbers were flat too? I just don’t believe these numbers. They don’t reflect reality.

Likewise - while every other poll shows Trump’s numbers on race relations fell, FOX shows they went up:

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The result of these weird numbers it that FOX actually has Trump’s standing getting better:

I don’t know what is going on with the FOX poll. It is always possible that they are actually just getting a more republican return on survey’s than in prior samples, but it is also possible that they are adjusting how they are modling who gets in the sample and the weighting to try to produce slightly more pro-Trump results.

Just raising this as an interesting issue since these results seem to defy what everyone else is changing, and while their polling has been down the middle in the past, you never know…

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Braggadocios Stable Genus-Mulish Sore-Loser Trump will lie, cheat, steal and rig to win re-election…because it’s the jail thing!

Here’s a better choice…everything Trump is NOT!

Trump: “I do not take responsibility”

New NYT expose of Trump’s blame shifting Irresponsibility:

But their ultimate goal was to shift responsibility for leading the fight against the pandemic from the White House to the states.

That’s Dereliction of Duty and Criminal Negligence!

Addendum:

Q: Who would describe world wars as “beautiful”?

A: Stable Genus Ass’ beautiful low cognitive mind!

We won two world wars. Beautiful world wars. That were vicious and horrible. And we won them out of Fort Bragg, we won them out of all of these forts, and now they want to throw those names away" – Trump

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1284846580747640835

Addendum2:

Unpresidented Idiot!

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When the cognitive test nonsense isn’t even in the top five…ouch

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“Well, I’m not offended either by Black Lives Matter,” Trump said.

Wait a sec, I remember you calling BLM “A symbol of hate.”

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dancing%20putin|nullxnull

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They wheeled Biden out?!?!?

Aside from this asinine garbage being terribly offense to disabled people, Biden looks pretty capable to me. I’d wager he can walk up and down ramps with no help.

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Working on some serious TMJ-grinding.
Kinda’ makes my morning when he’s so pissed off
and can’t go as far outside the lines as he’d like in a big interview.

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Trump probably realizes that these rallies are his last chance to have a crowd of his people gather to adore him.

His next opportunity is probably going to be at his funeral . But it is still up in the air if there is going to be a Russian or US flag draped over the casket.

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Have heard that there are polls indicating that
50% of eligible voters state that they would NEVER vote for Trump.
All this interview does is apply a layer of epoxy to that figure … and might even expand it.

The virus will just go away ? The virus is not a thunderstorm … or a heat wave …

The Confederate flag ? Choosing sides and you pick the CONFEDERATES?

Ugh!

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  1. He found the last five questions on his Montreal Cognitive Test difficult.
  2. He lied about just about everything.
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He’s really hunkered down in The Bunker, hasn’t he? Trump is getting almost fatalistic appearing to have accepted that his time has passed him by. I wonder how Adolph felt in those last months?

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Maybe he doesn’t remember the last five questions.

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Ha. The guy should be toast.

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Trump may have a greater chance of suffering a stroke.

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Exactly right. He sees BLM as a symbol of hate. He’s not offended by symbols of hate, even though BLM is anything but. Tell him that BLM stands for the love and acceptance and justice for black people, that will offend him, deeply.

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Adolph was directing troops that no longer existed in the last couple of weeks.
While Dolt has a few more resources still? Here’s hoping it comes to that.

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He’s definitely not offended by symbols of hate.

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