The co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates on Tuesday defended the non-partisan organization’s decision to mute microphones during certain portions of the final presidential debate this week, which President Trump has deemed as “very unfair.”
Look, if Donald doesn’t like it, he doesn’t have to come. Presidenting is hard, and rough! I wonder how fair his buddy Xi feels like being any given day.
I generally prefer avoiding “manly” as a complement, but by the standards of the term that his own supporters grew up with, he is by a wide margin the least manly man ever to occupy federal office.
Fat Nixon is lucky they even plan to turn his mike on at all.
A grateful nation would appreciate a duct tape gag on Jabber The Nutt…
His campaign might have agreed, but did Trump agree? Did they even tell him before consenting to this?
Shhhhhh !! They didn’t tell him yet. He will just holler into a muted microphone on Thursday nite and no one will be able to understand what he is talking about…like usual.
Oh Mango, your days are numbered.
It would be pure Trump to shrug and agree just because he can turn around and whine that it’s SO UNFAIR.
Well, he is. He acts macho but much of his behavior is really weirdly effete—the falling inflections when he’s tired and talking unguardedly strike me as something no man with any self-awareness would want to sound like. But deeper down there’s nothing very gendered about it, he’s just weak. He’s not disciplined, not resilient, not goal-oriented, not diligent. We’ve had ineffectual presidents, but I can’t imagine any of them were ever quite this bad. It’s hard to imagine an individual outside of an institution who’s quite this bad.
No. His campaign knows he is a nut, and they know he is damaging both his own campaign, but the republican party. I would not doubt for one minute that Bill Sapian got with Moscow Mitch and others and decided that the best course of action was to (a) cut Trump’s mike, and (b) hopefully he would get pissed off, and skip the debate.
Having Trump try to talk over, yell over Biden is the worst possible thing for Republicans, but Trump thinks it is what he needs. Sapian probably has said to Trump “you need to let Biden talk, everyone will see he is out of it if” - whether he is that much in the FOX news bubble or not to believe it, I don’t know, but getting Trump to shut up, is good either way.
Bottom line is that Trump is toast, and people are trying to figure out how to get rid of him with the least damage…
Sadly, Trump doesn’t realize that the commission is actually doing him a favor.
Someone is setting the stage for a no show.
Protect Joe from COVID infection by Trump. I know the mic is important. Joe is more important.
I’m not big on the various Christian traditions, but it cannot escape notice that DJT is more lustful, gluttonous, greedy, slothful, wrathful, envious, and proud than, I don’t know, several standard deviations away from the mean human. Not altogether, but in each category individually.
He is the worst boy alive.
edit: weird how the early church (?) didn’t throw something like “untrustworthy” in there, but he can go eight for eight with my amended set
No woman either, kid.
I’d have some thoughts on many of those individual qualities—for instance I’ve always suspected he was never genuinely lustful like a normal lustful person, it was more performative and weird than that—but certainly he’s bad.
Ironically, temporary muting is the kind of solution a republican should applaud. It has no effect whatsoever on someone who obeys the rules, and only punishes the person who breaks the rules. Don’t want to be muted? Don’t interrupt. Republicans always defend excessively punitive laws by saying “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime”, but their Grand Leader is outraged by the very idea of having to not talk for a whole 120 consecutive seconds.
It’s complicated. A lot of qualities stereotypically associated with effeminate men aren’t really ways that women tend to act. But they’re ways Trump acts. Just saying.
…Your preferred exercise/display of your sexuality doesn’t involve publishing public photos of your scantily-clad purchased wife on the wing of your 757 brandishing a firearm?!
(fuckin’ weirdo)
No, actually. And I was always struck by how the women he pursued were women he knew were more or less officially considered attractive by other men. Models, women who’d appeared in Playboy, porn stars, all that. The women he’s attacked, that speaks for itself.
Maybe he will claim he has to stay at the WH to be with his wife who is still recovering from Covid.
As if Donny ever cared about anyone but himself.
I know. But vigilance is required to combat the constant attribution of positive characteristics like bravery, leadership and strength as male attributes. Leaves quite a few of us out, doncha know.
That’s why if you want to steer the discussion of it all away from gender roles you can see those qualities as various character-based virtues that anyone can have.