Discussion: Chris Wallace To Trump: When Will You Start Acting More Presidential?

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Every surface in his apartment is gilded or mirrored. He splashes his name on anything he owns, in gilt. He erects gaudy buildings (and likes his women to be the same - tall and tacky). You expect him to show some dignity? He’s a short fingered vulgarian.

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Er, Chris, he’s running in the Republican primary. Being immature, belligerent and hateful is a plus not a minus. If he gets the nomination then he will have to act more presidential, but not now, it’s too soon.

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As long as their base consists of petulant, immature brats, there’s no reason for Trump to change.

If it ain’t broke, what’s there to fix?

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“So, when are you going start?” Wallace countered.

“Well, pretty soon,” Trump said.

This is who is going to Make Our Country Great Again

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He will and he will. And then Wallace will forget he ever asked that question, and we’ll all be agahst at how the media seems to have forgotten all the things Trump said. Dems will produce video of said things, and the media will run that actual video against a Trump spokesman saying some version of “Don’t believe your lying eyes”, as a controversy.

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Like a slacker teen who still hasn’t mowed the lawn. Along with many other firsts for this very remarkable candidate, he’s one of the most immature adults you’ve ever seen anywhere, much less running for the most demanding job on earth.

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Fox News host Chris Wallace had a tough question for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the top of his interview on Sunday.

“Do you think you need to tone it down, do you think, as you become the frontrunner for the nomination, to act more presidential?” Wallace asked Trump on “Fox News Sunday.”

that’s not really a tough question, but more so a question of ‘where are your manners?’

“Well, probably I do,” Trump replied, before talking about his admiration for former President Abraham Lincoln.

“So, when are you going start?” Wallace countered.

“Well, pretty soon,” Trump said.

uh-huh

Trump has previously said that he has used his rhetoric to stand out from the other candidates in the race.

and its working right now, so why change…

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“Well, pretty soon.” Oh, come on! Trump is a salesman. Born to a poor man he would be selling used cars. He is what he is, and he’ll tell us whatever he thinks we want to hear to make a deal. After the deal is made, there is no warranty.

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Ah… when will monkey’s fly out of my butt?

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Say what you will about Trump, but he became leader of the pack by acting the way he does. While Chris Wallace’s question seems to make sense, it reflects his being stuck in a set of assumptions that Trump is proving to be less relevant than in the past – dramatically less relevant, which is why we’re all shocked about Trump’s ascension.

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So, Trump has risen to the top of the Republican pile,
not by offering any serious, thought-out policies or plans,
but only by screaming in an empty but entertaining reality-show fashion…
giving primary voters obnoxious sizzle, but zero steak.

And now he essentially admits that
–if the party is foolish enough to hand the nomination to a dummy like him–
folks won’t even get as much of the loud but empty sizzle!

Let the “buyer’s remorse” begin!!!

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When does Donald peg the time of previous greatness? Pre-Brown vs Board of Education? Pre-Eisenhower? Pre-Johnson? Pre-Nixon? Pre-Ford? Pre-Carter? Pre-Reagan? Pre-GHWBush? Pre-Clinton? Pre-W? Pre-Obama?

Which era lionized vulgarian language? Didn’t his parents know that he needed to learn manners?

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Its going to get a little rough from here on out for the Donald,in MSM someone is looking to be the one that finally busts Trump.

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did wallace actually ask any questions of substance… like what are the policy details trump proposes – instead of the idiotic ‘make america great again’.

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Exactly. Trump has been acting like Trump. He can’t help himself. Bragging, false claims about his past, making stuff up, avoiding substantive discussion of issues, late night/early morning tweets–these are all Trump.

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Manners, like taxes, are for the ‘little people’.

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I didn’t see the transcript. What was Chris Wallace’s response when Trump asked when Fox News reporters and anchors will start covering news like journalists?

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ottnott nailed it.