Trump objects to 'mute' button in next Biden matchup, but debate will go on

[In the jungle]

He is such a carnival barker he will still try to shout Biden down.

 

Or alternatively grab his microphone.

[polpott]

1 minute ago, In the jungle said:

He is such a carnival barker he will still try to shout Biden down.

 

Or alternatively grab his microphone.

Its a certain part of the anatomy he's famous for grabbing. Biden should wear a jock.

[GeorgeEboy]

Never under estimate the stupidity of some of the American public. Many buffoons put him in office. And I’m not one of them. ???? 

[Meat Pie 47]

2 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

 

if he acts this way in public, imagine how unbearable he must be in his white house staffing meetings, briefings with generals and cdc officials.

 

i imagine those briefings must be even worse than the circus where he ordered his pandemic experts to "look into" injecting disinfectant into the lungs, like a cleaning, and to bring yu-vee light into the body, somehow.  trump acting pompous, giving orders, while the real experts bite their lips and take it.

Just watched on Australian TV the first part of the Trump show

the inside fighting among all staff and republicans is horrendous.

He is like a cry baby and every body not agreeing with him gets

sacked or made to resign he even sacks his advisors by tweets.

[cjinchiangrai]

I suggest the dueling format. First person to go out of turn gets shot. It will save a lot of paperwork for SDNY.

[samsensam]

6 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Just watched on Australian TV the first part of the Trump show

the inside fighting among all staff and republicans is horrendous.

He is like a cry baby and every body not agreeing with him gets

sacked or made to resign he even sacks his advisors by tweets.

 

it's on the bbc iplayer too, fascinating to see how clearly well out of his depth he was in the early days, there's so much crazy stuff that i'd forgotten he'd done and said. he's not a very nice person, and a shockingly bad president, but if he's what americans want then good luck to them.

[Scott]

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[Scott]

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[IAMHERE]

15 hours ago, Susco said:

mute button equally applied to both candidates

Not a chance that will happen, especially if the democratic activist moderator is in charge of the button.

[Meat Pie 47]

24 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Not a chance that will happen, especially if the democratic activist moderator is in charge of the button.

The New York Times is reporting moderator Kristen Welker will not have control of a mute button in order to silence candidates,

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-20/mute-button-final-presidential-debate/12785242

[candide]

42 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Not a chance that will happen, especially if the democratic activist moderator is in charge of the button.

Such as last time? ????

[candide]

6 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Those who support this should be ashamed. Like him or not, neither candidate should get helped by the commission.

You are commenting on a statement from the Trump campaign! ????

[bendejo]

13 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Totally agree. It's also important that they find moderators that can act with complete impartiality and treat both candidates the same. If they can find them.

He's already begun to slander the moderator.  A real class act, this guy.  A woman of color, just his type of target.

His white rabble eats it up.  "He sure showed her!"

 

 

[Lacessit]

10 hours ago, GeorgeEboy said:

Never under estimate the stupidity of some of the American public. Many buffoons put him in office. And I’m not one of them. ???? 

LOL, do you realize what you said in your last sentence? Double meaning. A better way of putting it would be to say " I did not vote for him".

[Credo]

During the debate preparation for the first date, Chris Christie had advised Trump to keep interrupting Biden.  Biden has a speech impediment and interruptions tend to cause him to start stuttering.   

 

The 'mute' button might work to make it more pleasant for the viewers, but Trump can still speak and may be able to cause Biden to stutter.   

 

[RocketDog]

13 hours ago, evadgib said:

Trump is going to win by a landslide no matter what they throw at him ????

Are you a true believer, a masochist, or both? 

[Tie Dye Samurai]

18 hours ago, dunroaming said:

I do wonder if Trump will stand for being muted or storm off in a hizzy fit!

I think he lasts about 10 minutes before he storms off....then 45 secs later comes back all WWE style, throwing chairs and having to be restrained, shouting the election is being stolen and then glaring into the camera....face so red the orange makeup cant even hide it, and screams "PROUD BOYS....MOUNT UP!!!!!"

 

Too bad I am actually half serious...

[placeholder]

7 hours ago, bendejo said:

He's already begun to slander the moderator.  A real class act, this guy.  A woman of color, just his type of target.

His white rabble eats it up.  "He sure showed her!"

 

 

He also walked out of an interview with Leslie Stahl and later mocked her on Twitter. I guess he's testing the limits of how few women he can get to vote for him.

[Eric Loh]

8 minutes ago, Tie Dye Samurai said:

I think he lasts about 10 minutes before he storms off....then 45 secs later comes back all WWE style, throwing chairs and having to be restrained, shouting the election is being stolen and then glaring into the camera....face so red the orange makeup cant even hide it, and screams "PROUD BOYS....MOUNT UP!!!!!"

 

Too bad I am actually half serious...

An unhinged Trump may do another walk-out like he did on "60 Minutes". This seem to be his latest strategy to cast others as unfair to him when asked on question that he deemed biased which nowadays is just about any question at all. He has lost his marbles. 

[canuckamuck]

It will be good to let Biden talk, so everyone can see that he is barely coherent. They should also have a mute button on the moderator, the last guy kept interrupting Trump's responses.

The more Biden talks the better though. He is sad joke as presidential candidate.

Edited October 21, 2020 by canuckamuck

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Lighten up guys. Love him or loathe him, life will be duller when Trump has gone.

Indeed. What will CNN have to talk about? I watch them sometimes and it's almost always about Trump.

Perhaps they'll still talk about him after he's gone, whenever that is. Even BBC and Al Jazeera get mileage out of running Trump down.

[Eric Loh]

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Indeed. What will CNN have to talk about? I watch them sometimes and it's almost always about Trump.

Perhaps they'll still talk about him after he's gone, whenever that is. Even BBC and Al Jazeera get mileage out of running Trump down.

There will be lots to talk since he still grab headlines of all the prosecutions for number of crimes. There never be a dull moment after he leave office. 

[placeholder]

22 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

It will be good to let Biden talk, so everyone can see that he is barely coherent. They should also have a mute button on the moderator, the last guy kept interrupting Trump's responses.

The more Biden talks the better though. He is sad joke as presidential candidate.

Yes it was disgraceful the way Biden talked in a detailed and coherent way for seven or eight minutes stretches at a time about complicated subjects.  Whereas it's a rare and heartening event to see Trump speak coherently for over a minute about one subject.  Who knows? We may be even treated to one of those rarities on Thursday.

Edited October 21, 2020 by placeholder

[Berkshire]

4 hours ago, Lacessit said:

15 hours ago, GeorgeEboy said:

Never under estimate the stupidity of some of the American public. Many buffoons put him in office. And I’m not one of them. ???? 

LOL, do you realize what you said in your last sentence? Double meaning. A better way of putting it would be to say " I did not vote for him".

I thought it was pretty clear.  He said he wasn't one of the buffoons that put Trump in office. 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, canuckamuck said:

It will be good to let Biden talk, so everyone can see that he is barely coherent. They should also have a mute button on the moderator, the last guy kept interrupting Trump's responses.

The more Biden talks the better though. He is sad joke as presidential candidate.

People who stutter are frequently quite intelligent, it's just their minds are faster than their tongues.

Winston Churchill, James Earl Jones, Elvis Presley and Bruce Willis are famous examples of stutterers.

Trump's better facility with speech is taken by the ignorant as an indicator of his better mental capacity. However, when his speech is analyzed, it contains all the spurious forms of argument detailed in "Straight and Crooked Thinking" by R H Thouless.

I guess come election day, the world will find out how ignorant Americans really are.

[Lacessit]

35 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

I thought it was pretty clear.  He said he wasn't one of the buffoons that put Trump in office. 

The double meaning is in the potential inference he is a buffoon also, just not one that voted for Trump.

It's a bit like the body that was discovered in the woods by a tramp in an advanced state of decomposition. One has to feel sorry for the tramp.

[Phoenix Rising]

1 hour ago, canuckamuck said:

It will be good to let Biden talk, so everyone can see that he is barely coherent.

Oh poor dear, still banging that drum? Well. I guess if you've got nothing.....

[Phoenix Rising]

15 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

People who stutter are frequently quite intelligent, it's just their minds are faster than their tongues.

Winston Churchill, James Earl Jones, Elvis Presley and Bruce Willis are famous examples of stutterers.

Trump's better facility with speech is taken by the ignorant as an indicator of his better mental capacity.

I must disagree with you. If you watch an interview with trump from 30 years ago he comes across as eloquent and with a good vocabulary. Fast forward until today and the decline is obvious and shocking, Today, what you get are streams of unconsciousness, the ramblings of a failing/failed mind. He sounds like an Alzheimer patient on speed.

Edited October 21, 2020 by Phoenix Rising

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, Phoenix Rising said:

I must disagree with you. If you watch an interview with trump from 30 years ago he comes across as eloquent and with a good vocabulary. Fast forward until today and the decline is obvious and shocking, Today, what you get are streams of unconsciousness, the ramblings of a failed mind. He sounds like an Alzheimer patient on speed.

I don't consider we are disagreeing, just looking at it from a different perspective. IMO Trump thinks quantity is preferable to quality.

[RJRS1301]

52 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Alzheimer patient on speed.

well they gave him Dex as part of the COVID treatment (well that's the excuse)