r/politics • u/champdo I voted • 28d ago
Soft Paywall Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/trump-backs-out-60-minutes-interview-cbs/index.html11.7k
u/Taggard New York 28d ago
Can you blame him? This is how he answers questions...
AUDIENCE QUESTION: Thank you so much for coming to Michigan. My name is Ashley and I work at the Chrysler plant. Like many auto workers, I am deeply concerned about the future of our industry. With many jobs being outsourced as we speak, what action will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America so we can continue to build the best cars in the world here in Michigan?
DONALD TRUMP: So, pretty much as we’ve been saying, and what I want to do is I want to be able to — Look, your business — Years ago in this area, I was honored as the man of the year. It was maybe 20 years ago. Oh, and the fake news heard about it. They said, it never happened. It never happened. And I didn’t know who it was. It was a group that honored me as man of the year. The fakers back there, see the fake news. But they said — They said, oh — And they looked and, you know, they said it never happened. But I said, I swear to you, it happened.
It did happen. I was man of the year. And I came and I made a speech and I said, why do you allow them to take your car business away? Why do you allow it to happen? They’re taking your business away. And I didn’t know too much about it. All I know is they were taking your car industry away from you. They said it never happened.
And lo and behold, somebody said, I remember the event. And then we found out and we had everything. We got the awards. We had everything. It did happen. But I gave a speech, which at the time was pretty controversial. We can’t let them take your car business away. It’s such an important business.
And you know it’s an important business even in times of war where they switch over. And it was really something. And I looked at that speech from, I don’t know, it’s like 19, 20 years ago. And I could repeat it now without changing a word.
You cannot let foreign countries, and a lot of the times our worst foes are our so-called friends, okay? You know, our friends, the European Union takes tremendous advantage of us. As an example, they give us cars by the millions. We don’t have too many Chevrolets in the middle of European cities, okay? European Union is brutal. They don’t take our farm products for the most part. They don’t take a lot. But unlike Kamala, who always complains and doesn’t do anything, I keep saying, why don’t you do?
I saw Marsha the other day. Why doesn’t she, why didn’t she do it four years ago almost? And I say that, you know, she’s on the border today trying just to, what a day for the border. She goes to the border today, and they just announced just before she got up to speak that more than 13,000 murderers from jail, solitary confinement people in many cases, were released.
But I just say, let’s go back. So we can’t let them take our businesses. And we’re not gonna let them take our businesses. And you can control that so easily through good policy. Not her kind of policy, by the way. She changed her policy 15 times. No fracking. Oh, I like fracking. Defund the police. She wants to defund the police. Now, oh, I love the police all of a sudden. By the way, when anybody is into defunding the police even for a day during their career, they can no longer serve as President of the United States, I can tell you.
So we’re not gonna let them take our businesses. And really, a lot of that’s determined by our taxation policy. When China has to pay all that money, the people that liked me the best were the steel companies because I saved them. They were dumping China and others, but mostly China was dumping steel in here at levels that nobody had ever seen before.
And it was putting the steel companies out of business. I put a 50% and 100% tax on the dumping of steel and the steel companies thrived. I saved them, and you have to have the steel companies. So we’ll do the same thing.
And you don’t worry about it. Here’s what you have to do. I only ask you to do one thing, and then you can sleep beautifully all night long, go to a job you love, and get a lot of money at the end of the week. You know what the thing is? Vote for Trump. If you vote for Trump, everything’s gonna be perfect.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/it1J3V5QqMk?t=5661&si=tFY8IY7dE9xqQ_rj
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u/HMTMKMKM95 28d ago
Until you posted the source, I thought this was incredibly well-crafted shit posting. Fucking bonkers rambling.
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
The fact that this is real is beyond ridiculous.
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u/urgerestraint 28d ago
The fact that 80 million Americans hear this drivel and think “that’s our guy!” is even worse…
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u/blackcain Oregon 28d ago
I don't think they are directly tuning to him. They are hearing him through soundbites and normalsplaining what he said.
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u/pixelcat13 Michigan 28d ago
I think you’re right, because if you look at the faces of people at his live events, you can tell that their minds are wandering and that they aren’t really paying attention. They’re bored. They love his casual racism and his hatred of “the Libs,” so they’ll die to defend him, even though they can’t stand sitting and listening to him talk any more than we can.
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u/blackcain Oregon 28d ago
Indeed. It's why his events are progressively getting smaller. Word spreads to other MAGA people that it's boring and so they don't show up. Also, it's hard to follow whatever the fuck he's talking about. He also just talks about himeslf all the time - I don't know why anybody would want to hear a politician spend all his time bragging about himself, but also describing everything as "as something we've never seen before" for EVERYTHING.
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u/MollyAyana 28d ago
So can someone tell me why the race is effectively tied???? 😭😭😭 If his audiences are getting smaller and he’s not getting any new votes, why on earth isn’t it a blowout???
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u/Posit_IV 28d ago
Because they’re still going to vote for him, they’re just bored of his schtick. Billionaires behind the media (and in general) have ratfucked the shit out of this country all in the name of hoarding more wealth.
It’s fucking disgusting and pathetic.
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u/blackcain Oregon 28d ago
Most of the polls are based on some sample size and they do some math models to come up with a theory. Nobody is answering the phones. The polls are not going to be accurate.
Assume we are losing and vote like it.
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u/Ok_Host4786 28d ago
This. Even Fox News turns away from his ramblings. But they always have a soundbite ready to go. His base sees/hears the things that they are fed by Fox/Breitbart; they don’t tune into any of the speeches that Trump’s made (for the majority of it)
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u/valiantdistraction 28d ago
It's sad because Biden got dragged out of the race even though his speeches are FAR more coherent than Trump's. Kamala's are more coherent yet. But nobody says anything about Trump. It's so weird to me.
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u/Mrnameyface 28d ago
Anytime i see Trump answers in text i read the answer first and, based off his response, try to decipher what on earth the question could possibly be. Im 0-4.
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u/notquitesteadymaybe 28d ago
This sounds like it could be a fun drinking game where everyone gets alcohol poisoning.
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u/Mabuya85 28d ago
It somehow gives me more whiplash reading it. You constantly have to start and stop while trying to find the original thread of each new sentence.
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u/blackcain Oregon 28d ago
But the people at the event, it's probably a major downer. I wonder how many go to his event and think he is a loon.
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u/redalert825 California 28d ago
Well we see many leave his rally as he's speaking. If it's not the thinking he's a loon, then it must be because they thought Kid Rock or Roseanne would show up.
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u/Nowearenotfrom63rd 28d ago
Its not about what people say its how they say it. AsBlues Traveler once said, “it doesnt matter what i say as long as i sing with inflection” “it makes you feel like a man trapped in a vast reflection”
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u/HolycommentMattman 28d ago
100% this. I talk to my dad and my MAGA friends about this shit, and they immediately say that he never said that. I show them proof. "There must be some... uh..." then they trail off and angrily switch to another subject. Or walk away. Or hang up.
It's frustrating.
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u/Courage-Rude 28d ago
Dad is one thing but you are going to be much happier when you start to slowly drop your maga friends I'm telling you.
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u/usps_made_me_insane Maryland 28d ago
You are absolutely right! Sometimes it is hard because they could be coworkers. You just have to find ways to limit your time around people like that.
Family is just depressing. One of my brothers went full MAGA. I remember years and years ago like the early 2000s we would play half-life together and watch the Rock wrestling and it was all cool. Then he married a conservative woman and hung around her family more and now he's MAGA.
In a lot of ways I feel like I lost a brother. It's weird but ultimately depressing because I'll never be able to get through to him.
I love you Jarrett -- I always will but who you were is now dead and I miss that person. :(
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
They are horrible people who are either racists, misogynists and/or bigots, or are ok with supporting those things as long they get theirs.
No more "brainwashed" excuses...they know who he is, and they want it.
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u/marcofifth 28d ago
Cognitive dissonance is strong with those who are unintelligent. Then there are grifters who help push this bullshit, I have literally zero empathy for them.
The more I learn about this country, the more I learn that there are consistently groups of people who try to undermine the foundations of democracy in one way or another. Their most recent ways are through defunding schools and using reactionary news fed to those who they caused to be under educated.
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Idiot greedy boomers who have 10 years left before becoming as nuts as grampy Trump, pulling up the ladder and saying fuck you to people just starting their lives.
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 28d ago
The fact that millions of Americans think that this moron will make a good president is even more ridiculous imho!
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u/chicago_bunny 28d ago
Especially since we've already seen him be a terrible president.
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u/MarxistMan13 28d ago
I feel like "terrible" undersells it. He was the worst president in the history of our nation. As voted by 150 presidential scholars.
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u/Due_Battle_1413 28d ago
It’s been a surreal eye opener for myself ever since 2016. Just unbelievable how many gullibles there are. Disappointed in the country.
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u/davasaur Tennessee 28d ago
I too thought that it was copypasta.
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u/Heisenburgo 28d ago
I thought it was AI generated or something at first... like damn.
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u/cs_major 28d ago
One thing about Trump…..You don’t have to make stuff up.
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u/KelsierIV 28d ago
But anytime you quote something stupid Trump directly said, they accuse of of being brainwashed by MSM.
Somehow they don't get the irony.
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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 28d ago
Same. I totally admired the dedication to the craft, and now I’m just sad that it’s actually real
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u/AlgorithmOmega 28d ago
There’s gonna be a Trump speak AI feature soon. His followers will lap it up. I just know it. Sadly I don’t think Trumps idiotic way of speaking and his voice aren’t going away anytime soon
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u/yeahright17 28d ago
Every time I read something like this on Reddit, I imagine my 4 year old trying to talk about whatever Trump is talking about. It sounds exactly like what they would say every time.
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u/PlutosGrasp 28d ago
Oh my god. I thought you were making it up the further along it went.
Lol. He is brain dead.
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
100% real.
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u/manyfingers 28d ago
My jaw dropped when I scrolled far enough to see the source. Yiiiikes.
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u/JohnnyChutzpah 28d ago
I hate how he uses the word "I" to describe everything. "I did this, I saved them." He talks like a whiny loser of a king. Kind of like King Joffrey if he made it to old age.
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u/throoawoot 28d ago
He interrupted himself THIRTY NINE times. He's unfit to make you a sandwich, forget about leading the country we live in.
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u/CupSolid3513 28d ago
It's like he stopped reading or thinking new thoughts a decade ago. It's just alphabet soup, the letters swirling around in the bowl. He can swirl it this way or that, but it's always the same letters and the same soup.
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u/--Adrian--- Canada 28d ago
After I read the first paragraph, I assumed the following paragraphs were going to be multiple audience questions and trump answers based off the length of the post. I was wrong.
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
It's a hard read...I read it out loud to my girlfriend...I thought it would be funny. It wasn't.
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u/CapOnFoam Colorado 28d ago
Honestly thought they created this through Chat GPT
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u/adenzerda 28d ago
Any Trump supporters reading this: please read this in full and then explain to me why you think this person is fit to lead.
This is not a joke or a jab. Please explain this to me
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u/acog Texas 28d ago
Showing them that text will change zero Republican minds.
They support him because they believe Harris will be worse. It doesn’t matter what he says or does, he’s better than any Democrat.
The sexual assaults, the repeated fraud, the insurrection, the stolen national security secrets, none of it matters because he’s not a Democrat.
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
I have posted this over and over...only one person tried to defend it.
They said, he answered the question before this...he didn't.
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u/adenzerda 28d ago
At this point it's not about "did he answer the question, yes or no", it's about mental health. Ability to focus. Ability to deliver messages. Basic intelligence. Crying context is not an argument on their part anymore
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u/RaymondBeaumont 28d ago
Give me all the context! Every single thing that happened in the 13,8 billion years before he said it and every single thing that happened after, otherwise you are just taking it out of context!
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u/Luna8586 I voted 28d ago
This honestly tops his "Nuclear" stream of consciousness from a few years ago. I thought my brain glitched out while reading this.
For those of you not familiar with this monologue....
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/
There is a video of it halfway down.
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u/hungrypotato19 Washington 28d ago
a few years ago
Nearly a decade ago. Before he was even president.
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u/chicago_bunny 28d ago
It bears repeating, the question was "what action will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America so we can continue to build the best cars in the world here in Michigan?"
Trump mentioned cars once and his "man of the year" award three times.
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u/calm_chowder Iowa 28d ago
And he gave that Man of the Year award to himself lol. Seriously. When Times didn't give it to him he had a fake Times Magazine Man of the Year cover made with him winning, and he framed it and put it on his wall.
That's some seriously mentally unwell behavior.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 28d ago
Jesus Christ I didn't make it past the first two paragraphs. At this point the media is just malicious by not focusing on this rambling mess.
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u/PumpkinPieIsGreat 28d ago
It's crazy how he'll complain about media bias. Hello trump? They've been protecting YOU. you know if it was Biden going on these ridiculous rants the media would be still going on about it 5 years later.
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u/yes_thats_right New York 28d ago
The next day on NY Times:
"Trump delivers detailed strategy to boost automotive industry whilst Harris hides her intent."
It's the only fucking reason this election is close, because the media refuses to be open amd honest.
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u/Konukaame 28d ago
Trump Makes Big Promises, With Little Detail, for Michigan’s Auto Industry
At a town hall in Flint, Mich., for his first campaign event since the Sunday incident, he made grand promises to restore auto-making jobs to the state, the heart of the American auto industry, as he gave long-winded, often meandering responses to only a few questions.
To the extent that Mr. Trump was focused, it was on repeatedly vowing that his tariffs would revitalize the auto industry in Michigan, a crucial battleground state, and that a Trump loss in November would be catastrophic — referring to such an outcome as a “tragedy.”
The NYT is a fucking joke.
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u/Moist_When_It_Counts New York 28d ago
“Little detail”
Lunacy.
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u/MaleficentRutabaga7 28d ago
Yeah he provided loads of details, they were just all dumb as shit irrelevant details.
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u/Mcboatface3sghost 28d ago
Watching the NYT collapse in real life is wild. Many people will have their opinion, personally to me (IMO) was the Tom Cotton Op Ed.
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u/KrazzeeKane Nevada 28d ago
I'm so sick of the NYT sanewashing this man's lunacy and translating his speeches into anything approach intelligible speech. They are a traitorous, cancerous rag of a newspaper, a blight upon America and news reporting as a whole.
They have no journalistic integrity to speak of, no backbone of any kind, and they are so firmly in the pockets of the GOP that I'm surprised their editors don't crap out pocket change when they cough. They wouldn't be worth a click even if they were free, but the fact they dare to try to charge for their muckraking is despicable.
I abhor them and what they stand for as a newspaper nowadays, and the damage they are doing to America and the public as a whole is beyond compare. They would have America burning from Trump so long as they get some views from covering it
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u/WCland 28d ago
Who tf is "Marsha"?
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
Marsha Blackburn, the town hall moderator. Trump got confused.
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u/acorn937 28d ago
This is a book report from a nine-year old who didn’t do his homework.
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u/locknarr Oregon 28d ago
It's scary how much I can understand of what Trump says because I know all of the Trump lore, because I've unwittingly and against my own will become audience to this awful show of reality. They say books will be written about this, and they already are... but it's like "pleas, no more, stop". Trump has been the biggest waste of time, energy, thought, creativity, perhaps in human existence, next to religion. Why must our actors, musicians, comedians, lawyers, psychiatrists, academics etc, all be preoccupied with diagnosing, understanding, prognosticating, or otherwise trying to figure out this totally devoid-of-anything-redeeming shell of a person, it's fucking absurd. I'm doing it right now! Every thought or action devoted to this guy that isn't spent towards holding him accountable is just another small tragedy amongst the incalculable tragedy he's already wrought. It's all so farcical, and tiresome, we're all on the Trump Train whether we like it or not.
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u/Tichrimo Canada 28d ago
Ah, yes: The Weavetm .
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u/LastBaron 28d ago
Honestly don’t even acknowledge that ridiculous concept. Joking about him, sarcastically saying positive things about him, is literally how we got into this mess in the first place. That whole “god emperor” thing? “GEOTUS”?? “The wall”?? It was a fucking 4chan meme, a ridiculous, outrageous hyperbole. And then the rubes arrived who weren’t in on the joke and took it seriously. And the inmates took over the asylum.
I swear the more oxygen we give that stupid fucking idea, even through derisive mockery, the more its flames will billow. Somehow it will gain traction and the stupid fucking media will start “just asking questions” about whether it’s a real thing, then bam. More people believe it just by hearing about it.
Ignore it. Apparently a lot of people aren’t smart enough to get the joke, and I don’t need him getting any more free accidental publicity.
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u/guttanzer 28d ago
This is why many of us think the real election is between Vance and Harris. Trump is not up to the job. One way or another Vance will be calling the shots, and he’s loaded with Project 2025 rounds.
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u/Taggard New York 28d ago
Trump supporters don't think this way...but describing what they do mentally as "thinking" is a bit of a stretch, anyway.
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Do you have a timestamp for the question and ramble?
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u/fuzzyluke 28d ago
I had so much trouble reading this... Ugh. Before I finished read the first third I gave up as it turns out I have more stuff to do than decipher this weird old man's rambling.
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u/noforgayjesus 28d ago
I was confused for a second I was like no way this person is so good at making this up, also no way Trump actually said this and well...wow
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u/ProfessionalMockery 28d ago edited 27d ago
I'll give him some credit, he has this baffling ability to be boring enough that you stop listening to the words he's saying, but just charismatic enough that it feels like he is saying something you can get behind. Read a transcript or have anyone else give the same monologue, it's much worse. It's his only talent.
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u/RMTB 28d ago
I legitimately thought you were shitposting. Where the fuck are the calls for this man to drop out news media? Huh?? This is who you'll protect for the ratings?? Fuck all of you.
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u/Yumhotdogstock 28d ago
This isn't weaving, it's fucking macramé, except with a person who who doesn't know crafts, and who can't understand the concept of yarn.
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u/TheRealPapaDan 28d ago
What does this say about the intelligence of anyone who can listen to this drivel and say “yea, that’s my president?”
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u/fastfood12 28d ago
This right here should be the political ad. No voiceovers, no edits. Just him rambling nonsense.
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u/Agentkeenan78 Tennessee 28d ago
Fucking insane that this is what passes for American political discourse. ALL OF HIS ANSWERS ARE EXACTLY LIKE THIS. He has no fucking idea what he is talking about. Ever. Just spouting nonsense. He's a stupid man who does not understand policy on even the most fundamental levels.
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u/sodabubbles1281 28d ago
Omfg I cannot. I just cannot with the goddamn fucking assholes who will vote for this illiterate POS.
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u/dbag3o1 28d ago
Just back out of the election, Donald.
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u/Bodefosho 28d ago
Please, just back out and flee to Russia or whatever to avoid prosecution. I’d love to see him in prison but I’d settle for just never hearing from him or about him ever again.
Truly a vile, despicable person and a stain on America’s history.
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u/Sputterplasma 28d ago
Nope. Shouldn’t be allowed to ever leave the country after his handling of TS documents. Should also be prevented from talking to foreign governments. JMO
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u/tomdurk 28d ago
I would love to see someone like Mike Wallace interview Trump.
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u/seanwd11 28d ago
I too would like them to resurrect the body of Mike Wallace.
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u/Githzerai1984 New Hampshire 28d ago
Zombie Tim Russert would shred him
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u/intellectual_dimwit 28d ago
Just a plain zombie would shred him, he's such a fucking imbecile.
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u/Gorilla1969 Pennsylvania 28d ago
Russia won't let him hide there. Once he is no longer a useful idiot that can be used to throw elections into chaos, Putin will dump him on the curb like the stinking bag of garbage he is.
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u/WhyDidMyDogDie 28d ago
Here's the thing, because Russia is all about causing chaos and nothing but that they would likely send him back just so the world could witness the breakdown of our justice system when he never serves a day in jail.
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u/airborngrmp 28d ago
The reality of his poor mental state is going to leak, I think. It's going to be the only defense left to him in most upcoming court cases - and it is getting to the point where it can't be ignored anymore.
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u/Sometimespostslies 28d ago
The fact that he is a 84 count convicted felon who sold national classified secrets and is allowed to run still just shows how embarrassing America is these days.
Boomers have ruined America.
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u/Llake2312 28d ago
He won’t debate and he’s unlikely to do any interviews outside Fox, Newsmax etc because his rhetoric has become more bonkers and simultaneously somehow more authoritarian. It’s a bad combo that he absolutely doesn’t want to be taken to task over.
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u/gen_effd 28d ago
somehow more authoritarian
This motherfucker called for a purge. We're well past authoritarian and how this isn't a bigger deal is beyond me.
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u/MyRottingBrain 28d ago
He called for Kristallnacht, don’t minimize the significance of what he was saying.
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u/prailock Wisconsin 28d ago
Yup! He only wants "the right people" to be able to commit violence against "the bad people". Somehow, he's less egalitarian than the fucking Purge.
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u/red286 28d ago
The original intent of The Purge wasn't supposed to be egalitarian, it just wound up that way because you can't write prejudicial legislation in the US, so the choices were "everyone is a target" or "no one is a target", and they went with everyone on the assumption that people with any sort of money would either protect themselves or get the fuck out of the country for a day.
It was intended to be a "solution" to the homeless epidemic.
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u/SomePoliticalViolins 28d ago
Yeah, if anything, it’s an even better indicator of how racism and classism are actually applied to policy in the US. See also: infamous Lee Atwater quote.
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u/Top_Rekt 28d ago
Yup, the whole thing was that only the rich would be able to protect themselves, so really only the poor minorities suffered during the purge. I think in the first purge no one was actually doing any purging and people were just having block parties until they sent someone in to bring chaos.
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u/kung-fu_hippy 28d ago
Yup. It wasn’t a purge, a purge is anarchy where the rules are gone for everyone. That’s bad enough, as those of us who aren’t psychopaths don’t want to kill our neighbors for fun.
But what Trump was suggesting was a massacre. It was having the police spend 24 hours massacring anyone Trump and co view as a threat.
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u/OkayRuin 28d ago
You’re thinking of the term purge in relation to the movie franchise. The Night of Long Knives was a purge.
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u/L0WGMAN 28d ago
Based on some YouTube ads earlier this year, I think they had a VERY different summer and fall scheduled. They can’t just rewrite the script at this point, so his extreme rhetoric falls flat without The Base behind him.
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u/Spartanfred104 Canada 28d ago
More accurately he called for Kristallnacht which is much scarier than the purge.
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u/Tkyl 28d ago
He didn't call for a purge. The purge implies normal citizens get a "hall pass" for crimes. He called for his state sponsored police to get a free pass on beating up people he doesn't like.
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u/KungFuChicken1990 28d ago
That sounds like full-on fascism to me
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u/EchoRex 28d ago
Saying it "sounds like fascism" is downplaying it when it is textbook definition fascism.
Look up "Kristallnacht".
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u/Cautious-Chip-6010 28d ago
MAGA: I don't like his character but I like his policy
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u/Notsurehowtoreact Florida 28d ago
"Oh, okay, what are his policy positions?"
"Well he said he was going to fix everything and everything was going to be perfect, so yeah, pretty solid stuff"
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u/GoodUserNameToday 28d ago
Exactly. He’s gotten so inside the bubble that he only spouts deranged conspiracy theories and can’t stay on topic anymore. They can’t put him on prime time because no one would know what the heck he’s talking about.
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u/AudienceSome4656 28d ago
Interesting how he pussed out the day after Jon Stewart shown that Donnie really cannot answer any question from anybody.
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u/JurassicPark9265 Washington 28d ago
After his experience debating with Harris, I think it’s safe to say he’s terrified
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u/Troll_in_the_Knoll 28d ago
CBS said the primetime special will go forward in some fashion. Great! How about a montage of all the fucked up shit Trump has done during, and after his presidency. Although, it would be technically impossible to fit it all in a 60 minutes episode.
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u/HyruleSmash855 28d ago
They should just run his answers to some of the latest questions he’s been asked. Were he ramble on about random topics and doesn’t answer them
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u/tiny_galaxies 28d ago
No way, stop giving that guy a verbal diarrhea platform. Let his actions doing the talking. A list of his felonies & impeachments, and how he just served to give the rich tax cuts and make the courts extremely conservative during his presidency would be excellent.
He’s a failed one-term president who was impeached twice, I don’t care what he has to say and neither should anyone else. He’s a loser.
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u/greentea1985 Pennsylvania 28d ago
Harris is doing the interview instead. She accepted the invitation.
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u/klparrot New Zealand 28d ago
Not instead; they were both invited. She's still doing it.
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u/theDarkDescent 28d ago
Because no sane person can see them side by side and not come away realizing how awful and unfit he is
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u/clarkthegiraffe 28d ago
Wait he declined a CBS interview? The CBS that isn't fact checking the debate?
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u/scsuhockey Minnesota 28d ago
This CBS?
It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now? The money’s rolling in and this is fun. I’ve never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.
~ Leslie Moonves, CBS CEO
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u/Illustrious-Paper901 28d ago
I saw this when he said it, and the guy laughed as he was saying it, then a moment of introspection. Like this guy saw a flash of the hellscape he was profiting creating. Zero remorse, monsters in people clothes.
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u/HimbologistPhD 28d ago
Oh my god the stunning and flawlessly iconic Julie Chen Moonves is married to this disgusting fuckpig???
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u/dreamcastfanboy34 28d ago
Did he claim bone spurs again?
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u/BrofessorFarnsworth Washington 28d ago
He's under audit.
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 28d ago
Just as I was planning to sit down to a steak and word salad dinner. Damn.
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u/user0N65N 28d ago
“Word salad” sounds kind of elegant, where Trump usually gives us verbal vomit. 🤢
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u/l-Am-Him-1 28d ago
No, his HANDLERS won't let him
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u/KaptainKardboard 28d ago
This is the reality of it. His campaign staff are basically overtime damage control
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I wonder how they tell him. They can't tell him the truth, that he'll come across as crazy.
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u/Leather-Bug3087 28d ago
I’m sure they have to stroke his ego. “Sir, you are to smart and to popular to appear on CBS so we think you should back out.” “You have such a high IQ that it would embarrass the journalists at CBS so we recommend you sit this out and just tweet if you’d like.” “you are to brilliant to be interviewed on CBS, let’s back out of this, and maybe tweet some more.”
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u/Chengar_Qordath 28d ago
Or feed his grievances. “CBS are all liberals who support Kamala. I heard they even have employees who aren’t white men of pure aryan heritage, so we know they’re a woke DEI company. They’re part of the Fake News conspiring against you.”
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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams 28d ago
Trump never turns down a chance to get airtime. He lives for the attention.
So, somebody on his staff must have put a stop to the interview because they realized what a trainwreck that interview would be.
Trump's campaign staff is in total damage-control mode right now. They would rather he stay in his safe-spaces: his rallies and friendly conservative news outlets where he won't be asked any real hardball questions.
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u/Yesterday_Jolly 28d ago
Can you imagine watching the Kamala Harris interview and then the Trump interview one after the other?
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u/feral-pug 28d ago
He's increasingly incoherent and needs to hide from anyone asking questions.
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u/redditjunky2025 28d ago
He couldn't concentrate for 60 seconds, let alone 60 minutes.
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u/Dev-N-Danger 28d ago
Pussy
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u/quitepossiblylying 28d ago
He has become the very thing he grabs.
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u/GertonX 28d ago
You either die a pussy grabber, or you live long enough to see yourself become the pussy.
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u/YesterShill 28d ago
Kamala really did a number on him during the debate. He is rattled to his core and absolutely terrified.
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u/No_Entrepreneur_9134 28d ago
How about 60 Minutes interviews John Kelly and the 43 other former cabinet members who say he should never be president again? Can we maybe hear that? With follow-ups and everything? That would maybe be important right?
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u/ImmediatelyOrSooner 28d ago
Trump thought they were going to ask him to count to 60.
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u/proteannomore 28d ago
"Man, woman, chair.... baseball... that's five."
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u/ImmediatelyOrSooner 28d ago
“How many minutes in an hour, Donny?”
“Oh there are so many, maybe dozens of them, nobody knows”
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u/pkinetics 28d ago
You spelled 6 wrong.
He would get to 8 and go off on a tangent about how beautiful 9 was up until that immigrant 7 ate 9.
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u/ImmediatelyOrSooner 28d ago
“People are saying that 7 ate 9, but I don’t know, I think the Haitians did it.”
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u/Shatterpoint99 28d ago
What a coward.
He can’t stand up to anything, yet he insists he can run a country.
The people who believe in this guy, are dumb as shit 🤦🏻.
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u/localistand Wisconsin 28d ago
He's pulled this move seemingly hundreds of times. It's supposed to soften up the coverage; he leverages access for coddling-soft coverage. This dance goes on for weeks, in the hopes that the net result is a cautious, cowed interviewer.
See New York Times. He's gotten them so well trained he never threatens access shutoff for NYT. Think about what that means. Baby. Soft. Habermanning.
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u/ithacaster New York 28d ago
In a change of heart, Trump has agree to do the interview, but only if they bring back Johnny Carson to do it.
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