Trump ignites fresh controversy after outlandish primetime appearance on CNN

[EVENKEEL]

Next we should expect biden to do an interview on Fox.

[nauseus]

On 5/11/2023 at 11:36 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

I’m more how you conclude the audience was firmly on Trump’s side.

 

There were obvious signs of sympathy, but it’s only natural when confronted with someone presenting such clear signs of mental illness.

 

 

Beware flying black kettles! 

[transam]

1 minute ago, candide said:

About Trump, the relevant question is not "When did he lie?", It's "When did he tell the truth?" ????

He might have done with Putin.................

[Tug]

16 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

How about my response. You didn't address it, why? I wrote "It's easy to see Trump would shred biden up in a one on one debate. Trump is still sharp." And you responded with deflection. You can't deny Trump can still talk sensibily without handlers.

Trump doesent debate he doesent answere any of the questions he just regurgitates the same bile unfortunately many are willing to lap it up.president Biden is an older man in a position of unthinkable power who thinks before talking ,a measured ,responsible,decent man he’s wayyy sharper than you think he also has a top notch team behind him he thinks before he answers questions again trump doesent debate oh the fact checkers found 167 lies by trump in the cnn interview btw

Edited May 13, 2023 by Tug

[transam]

1 minute ago, EVENKEEL said:

Next we should expect biden to do an interview on Fox.

It's what he does with his signature that counts, not acting for the crowds...........

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

What other points did Trump make in the interview ?

Did he mention the economy , the Russia/Ukraine war , any new variants of Covid or any other subject that is relevant today ?

   The 2020 elections are in the past , time to deal with the 2024 election 

Yes he mentioned the economy and lied. He also mentioned the Ukraine war and lied. I agree though, the 2020 elections are in the past but he was the one who constantly brought it up and lied. Its all in the fact checks.

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5 minutes ago, nauseus said:

True, Biden can't even recall his lies accurately.

Got a link to back that up?

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Yes he mentioned the economy and lied. He also mentioned the Ukraine war and lied. I agree though, the 2020 elections are in the past but he was the one who constantly brought it up and lied. Its all in the fact checks.

OK, what was the lie that he told about the Ukraine war ?

[Mac Mickmanus]

5 minutes ago, Tug said:

 oh the fact checkers found 167 lies by trump in the cnn interview btw

Could you provide a link to that claim and show what those"167 lies" were ?

[onthedarkside]

4 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

OK, what was the lie that he told about the Ukraine war ?

 

The link supplied has all the details. Trump claimed the US had supplied $171 billion “so far”

 

The facts are that the US has supplied $36.9 billion so far.

 

Trump also claimed that US stock piles were now depleted because of being sent to Ukraine. Not true.

 

However as stated earlier this is not a thread on the Ukraine war.

[HappyExpat57]

It turns out the attendees were told they could not "boo," applaud only. Talk about a rigged event!

 

Shame on CNN. NOW, they're fake news to be sure!

[scottiejohn]

31 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Some people listen to the whole interview

Why bother?  You know nearly everything he says will be either untruthful or spiteful or both.   

[scottiejohn]

27 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

You can't deny Trump can still talk sensibily without handlers.

You can't deny Trump can still talk sensibily  lie unconvincingly without handlers.

[onthedarkside]

A troll post removed

 

More off topic posts on Biden removed

 

Another reminder this is not a thread about the Ukraine war.

[candide]

45 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Some people listen to the whole interview , rather than just reading a few sentences and shouting "LIAR , LIAR"

Really? Here's the transcript. There are pages and pages of lies. Actually, It's hard to find a subject about which he doesn't lie!

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/transcript-cnn-town-hall-trump/index.html

[HuskerDo2]

Not sure why anyone bothered to watch. You had to know what he was going to say. Same old rehash of the garbage he spewed for the last few years. He's obviously has a few mental issues. How many 76 year old men do you know that act like spoiled tantrum throwing children instead of the grandfatherly type? God help us during the election season.

[billd766]

52 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I did and he is a compulsive liar and he cannot change that. And how you can deny that he is a liar, when the fact checks are plain for all to see, and they can be backed up, shows so much about you and other trump fans......so sad.

 

 

I didn't bother to listen to the interview but I did read ALL of the fact checking and to be fair, Trump did get his name right, but nothing else.

 

Still it was a MAGA and prospective MAGA audience and they seemed to believe it, as do several posters on this thread.

[pomchop]

On 5/11/2023 at 12:52 AM, vandeventer said:

Isn't he just great! No cheat sheets, no whispers, no walking away when the questions get too hard and a lot of important things to say. Trump 2024 coming at you in 3D.

just great...lets cheer on the mob that was tried by a jury and many found guilty of violent attacks in an attempt to overthrow the election.....just great to throw out pardons for these fine patriots to further encourage more of their ilk to repeat the process again...just great to tell the same old big lie that the election was rigged when investigation after investigation mostly done by republicans has proven beyond  doubt that there was no significant fraud....just great to claim in yet another lie that  you called off the mob at 2 pm when the video was released after 4 pm and easily verified....just great to continue attacking his sexual assault victim only hours after being found guilty by a jury of defamation...just great to attack the person who dared to ask questions and tried to get you to answer them ....just all around a just great role model...if you prefer a pysco liar wannabe dictator as POTUS.

 

i guess some peoples definition of "just great" is a bit different

[pomchop]

3.3 million or less than 1% of the population watched the cnn trump lie fest....that's about the same number that watched tucker carlson before he got canned...and perhaps many of the same 3 million that just love to listen to liars who throw out tons of BS that can be fact checked and proven to be beyond doubt a LIE....drink the kool aide and buy one of  $47 tee shirts to give the guy who is incredibly very very very  rich and doesn't need anybody's money more money....suckers?

 

another infomercial free of charge to the chief grifter......

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, HuskerDo2 said:

Not sure why anyone bothered to watch. You had to know what he was going to say. Same old rehash of the garbage he spewed for the last few years. He's obviously has a few mental issues. How many 76 year old men do you know that act like spoiled tantrum throwing children instead of the grandfatherly type? God help us during the election season.

UPDATE: CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump brought in 3.3 million viewers, enough for the network to beat its cable news rivals in the time slot and in primetime.

 

Old Trump sells, that's a given. The media will be sad when the time comes for Trump to leave the limelight.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/05/donald-trump-cnn-town-hall-ratings-1235363575/

[Fat is a type of crazy]

11 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

UPDATE: CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump brought in 3.3 million viewers, enough for the network to beat its cable news rivals in the time slot and in primetime.

 

Old Trump sells, that's a given. The media will be sad when the time comes for Trump to leave the limelight.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/05/donald-trump-cnn-town-hall-ratings-1235363575/

Trump appears all over the place and doesn’t get that big an audience. Fox News stop televising his speeches as he mainly pulls out the greatest hits which are probably a yawn feast for most of his fans too.           The appeal I imagine with this one was CNN versus Trump, the audience  hoping there would be a ton of fireworks, but despite her doing her best instead it was a bit same same. 

[Tug]

56 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

UPDATE: CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump brought in 3.3 million viewers, enough for the network to beat its cable news rivals in the time slot and in primetime.

 

Old Trump sells, that's a given. The media will be sad when the time comes for Trump to leave the limelight.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/05/donald-trump-cnn-town-hall-ratings-1235363575/

Perhaps the media but mother America will rejoice the vast majority of our people will rejoice and this New York City trust fund fraud of a human being will no longer be harming our democracy,unfortunately his malignant influence will linger for years sad ???? 

[ozimoron]

3 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

How about my response. You didn't address it, why? I wrote "It's easy to see Trump would shred biden up in a one on one debate. Trump is still sharp." And you responded with deflection. You can't deny Trump can still talk sensibily without handlers.

He has never been able to complete a cogent sentence. Remember covfefe?

[Mac Mickmanus]

Trump says there will need to be spending cuts or the USA will default on its repayments and that will cause a recession in the USA .

   What are the Democrats plans ?

Keep spending and risk defaulting ?

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26 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Trump says there will need to be spending cuts or the USA will default on its repayments and that will cause a recession in the USA .

   What are the Democrats plans ?

Keep spending and risk defaulting ?

Or call the Republicans' bluff. They've certainly had no problems with deficits when Republicans held the Presidency,. The problem with the Repubicans' plan is that deficits aren't really high on the lost of concerns of most Americans.

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[pomchop]

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Trump says there will need to be spending cuts or the USA will default on its repayments and that will cause a recession in the USA .

   What are the Democrats plans ?

Keep spending and risk defaulting ?

you might want to see which party has sent the debt sky high over the last few decades...repubs giving massive tax breaks to the richest yielded much less tax revenues despite the usual tired trickle down promise that never happens

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, pomchop said:

you might want to see which party has sent the debt sky high over the last few decades...repubs giving massive tax breaks to the richest yielded much less tax revenues despite the usual tired trickle down promise that never happens

I was thinking about the future and future policies and what should be done, rather than what has happened in the past

[pomchop]

yes trump and repubs have done such a great job in reducing the deficit of course they should be giving everyone advice about how to reduce spending as they have done such a great job with the deficit compared to dems .....sarcasm

 

Now they demand dems reduce spending as that might help to pay for the massive tax cuts that they gave to the richest of the rich.....so repub policies help the  rich get richer and then they demand dems cut spending to pay for their stupid policies that a review of the actual numbers clearly demonstrate the rep policies consistently increase the deficit....

 

 

https://towardsdatascience.com/which-party-adds-more-to-deficits-a6422c6b00d7

 

[Tug]

22 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I was thinking about the future and future policies and what should be done, rather than what has happened in the past

Most Americans are deeply concerned about the budget this threat on defaulting on the debt isent a budgetary issue it’s about paying debt allready accrued when the BUDGET is asked for that is the proper venue to address the issue tanking our credit worthiness isent it’s dangerous and harmful 

[HappyExpat57]

8 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I was thinking about the future and future policies and what should be done, rather than what has happened in the past

Yes, something must be done about future policies, but ignoring the past rather than using the past as a guide is just what Republicans WANT you to think.

 

The greatest economy ever created on this planet was just after WW II. The corporate taxes were high, but there were MANY tax deductions for just about anything that would help society. Corporations won't contribute unless forced to do so, that's just the nature of corporate mentality. This setup encouraged them to give back to the economy that helped them get very wealthy.

 

As a result, anyone willing to work had a job. A one income family could buy a house and send their kids to college. Corporations still made a hefty profit and EVERYONE BENEFITED.

 

Enter corporate greed, starting with union busting Ronald Reagan and that "trickle down" nonsense. Ever since then, the US economy has been brought to its knees. Corporate profits skyrocketed but so did homelessness. Two income families can barely get by, college loans have shackled entire generations resulting in low home ownership, and the future looks grim for some time to come. We are living in the Golden Age version 2.0.

 

I encourage folks who haven't tried to learn how to walk and chew gum at the same time - give it a go. Yes, focus on the future which needs serious fixing, but learn lessons from the past and apply them.

Edited May 14, 2023 by Pink Mist
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