Trump Town Hall Open Thread.

[RandySF]

I'm not watching, but leave your comments here if you are.

[Mossfern]

1. I'm not watching either

So is there a volunteer who will report on it?

[BainsBane]

14. Everyone should boycott

NBC and its affiliates. No volunteers.

[Mossfern]

35. Tom Nichols on twitter

is posting about it

[ananda]

46. He's great. Here are some tweets:

Comrades! I have some thoughts about the health of the Great Leader and his medical team here at the central Kremlin hospital:
The only bright spot in Trump's Soviet-style COVID-19 strategy is that it's not working
Trump is telling Americans to ignore basic COVID protocols and believe in miracle cures that don't exist. He couldn’t care less about risking their lives.

Guthrie challenges Trump to release his taxes. Trump says he can’t do it while he’s under audit and the woman behind him is nodding like he just accepted Christ as his personal savior.

He is panicking his way through this question about who he owes money to

Trump is going on about how he is under leveraged and not to worry about the 400 million he owes and that woman behind him is nodding and shaking her head like she’s getting paid by the muscle movement
I would love to know who put her there

That corporate tax rate question was so ridiculous that I am fully willing to believe it was planted.

I don’t know who the nodding bobble head is behind Trump but someone on the Trump communications team finally earned their pay.

This “undecided“ voter just said that corporate tax rates are a hot button issue.
this is the very definition of a voter who is anything but undecided.

She is back there nodding at everything Trump says like it’s her job

I don’t know who paid that girl over Trump’s right shoulder but I bet it was a lot.

Voter asks about the second stimulus package. Trump does his sucking on a lemon face. Trump then blames Pelosi. Whoever was seated just over Trump’s shoulder is nodding approvingly like she is in church

Guthrie challenges Trump about going to the supreme court to strike down Obamacare and Trump says he has to do it in order to replace it with something better

Trump keeps trying to tell Guthrie “we are on the same side“

[Nexus2]

49. I only caught the part where

Trump was claiming since he'd gotten rid of the individual mandate ('the worst and biggest part') you could consider it was no longer Obamacare.

[ananda]

55. Trump has an obsession with Obama...

amounting to mania.

[Blue_playwright]

2. There's not enough money in the galaxy...

...to tempt me to watch. I applaud those of you with stronger constitutions.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. I think this thread is going to be pretty quiet.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I'd Hope So

Cable providers can mine data of who is watching what.
That's how they can do those "Because you watched xxxxx, you might like yyyyyy, zzzzz"
I don't know if they're doing it for these debates & town halls, but they could.
I put the 2 TVs were not watching (dining room, spare bedroom) to ABC.
My wife is watching Joe.
I'm long past needing to hear what he says. He's got my vote & has for months.
I'm watching AHC, What History Forgot. So, that's 4 cable boxes; NONE tuned to NBC.

[Wednesdays]

4. Please post about the commercials

It would be helpful to know who to boycott.

[yardwork]

5. I'm not watching either. We should have drawn straws.

[PCIntern]

6. I like Town House crackers....buttery.

Oh...never mind.

[a kennedy]

7. I am......and I'm changing my mind about her......she'll be the one to either

make him lose it, or he’ll mow her over.

[Different Drummer]

8. Watching the Braves - Dodgers playoff game. N/T

[mshasta]

9. No

no

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Don't watch. Don't give him the ratings he wants.

[BainsBane]

11. NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo

Don't give him the attention. Please self-delete.

[Wednesdays]

52. Huh. I just saw your thread about NBC's good ratings.

What's your angle, Mac?

[BainsBane]

54. my angle

is that it disappoints me to see so many people on DU paying attention to Trump, even as Biden is speaking. My angle is getting Biden elected--which is why I've been making phone calls for his campaign for months now and am increasing my shifts for GOTV. With Democrats ignoring calls to boycott NBC, at least during the Trump down hall, that will LIKELY incentivize NBC rather than making them feel the pain for their actions. Is that clear enough for you?

[VivaResitance]

12. Complete moron

I am watching and he is refusing to denounce to QAnon. Arguing that he doesn't know anything.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Clearly A Way To Convince Swing Voters...

...that he's the guy for the job!
"Vote for me! I don't know anything!". Great salesmanship.
What a dolt!

[VivaResitance]

19. He is a dummy

You can tell he is losing his temper im waiting for him to slip up and call her a bitch.

[electric_blue68]

45. That would be great only in the sense...

that it would incite more people to even GOTV more! imho 😁

[SlogginThroughIt]

27. A major conspiracy group that is drumming up hate

And he diesn’t know who they are as a president!

[whttevrr]

16. Not watching any NBC channels or product.

NBC
CNBC
MSNBC
Peacock TV
NBC Studios
NBC Sports
E! Studios
Wilshire Studios, reality studio
Syfy
USA
Bravo
E!
Oxygen
Universal Kids
Golf Channel

the full list is huge at wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_NBCUniversal#NBCUniversal_Television_and_Streaming


Fuck chuck toad: #boycottNBC and #FireChuckTodd

[Tribetime]

22. LMAO. THANKS😛

[whttevrr]

26. LOL

That cat is awesome, right?

[ancianita]

17. I'm watching Joe right now. But my husband is shrieking w/ laughter in the next room about how 45's

opponent is tearing him to shreds. I'm still not watching. Fuck Trump forever.

[whttevrr]

20. uhmm... what opponent?

Himself?

[ancianita]

25. Don't know. Oh wait. Just asked. Hub says Savanah Guthrie just "tore his ass apart."

[whttevrr]

31. Oh... saw a tweet that he won't denounce QANON

And says someone doesn't know there is not a satanic pedophile cult.

[melman]

18. Refuses to denounce Q

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[AleksS]

30. You've got to be kidding. Really?

OMG. They're tossing him the easiest of softball questions.

That should have been a gimme. "Of COURSE there's not a satanic pedophile cult." But nope. The orange shitgibbon flops on that one too.

When you won't outright say that there's not a satanic pedophile cult running Washington DC, you have a problem.

So now, cheetolini can't denounce QAnon, white supremacists, who's next? Actual Nazi's? He won't denounce zombie Hitler?

[KatyMan]

36. Maybe he's a member? Nt

[AleksS]

21. I'm watching Joe, and I'm loving it!

I think the woman who was a previous Trump-ite would have asked Joe to marry her after he answered her question!

[ancianita]

28. He's so great. I feel the future every time I hear him speak.

[nolabear]

23. Watching Joe. Clear, fact based, concise, friendly. Brilliant!

[JDC]

24. I think he's been on point. It is so refreshing.

To hear a leader speak coherently *

[Lady Freedom Returns]

39. You mean Biden?

[JDC]

64. Yes. It makes me feel better to listen to a human being again.

[JDC]

65. I just realized this was the Trump thread. My mistake

I clearly was not paying attention.

[AleksS]

41. He seemed to get a little flustered answering the black gentleman...but I think

he recovered well.

Why doesn't he get the easy questions like Trump: "You agree there's not a satanic pedophile cult running Washington, right?"*

*Note: Trump did not agree. Even f-ed up the softball questions.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

29. Has Pence's fly made an appearance?

[LostinRed]

32. Local Los Angeles NBC not showing Trump

Local ABC is showing Biden live.

[Mossfern]

33. If you go to Twitter

Tom Nichols is doing a blow by blow of Trump town hall.
So far he's just being typical Trump/

[L.Pharmstrong]

34. I've been watching.

I know who I am voting for, and figured I’d watch what is more likely to be a train wreck. So far, I was right. Trump cannot help coming off as an argumentive, abrasive and stupid loudmouth. He is flustered and keeps attacking Savannah Guthrie, who has tried to call him out a few times.

Now it’s time to turn on Schitt’s Creek. I’ll read about this nonsense in the morning.

[Zeus69]

37. I'm watching him too (recording ABC)

Black woman in the background when camera is on Trump constantly nodding her approval for him and disapproval of Guthrie’s questions is incredibly annoying. Must be a plant?

[Mossfern]

40. Loved Schitt's Creek

Now I'm finishing up Arrested Development.
I'm looking for suggestions for future binge watching - or I'll go back to another iteration of Star Trek.

[frazzled]

38. Watch Biden

Why is it that even people here can’t tear themselves away from the idiot liar (and seem to fail to watch our own candidates, as if it’s just not that interesting).

Is it like waiting breathlessly to see a car crash during a race that is the morbid attraction to Trump?

Walk away, and change the channel. Break this nasty habit. Inspire yourself instead and watch Biden doing really well with solid proposals.

[electric_blue68]

48. I stopped watching Drumph sometime in '17

or by Spring '18.

That's why on a rare occasion during his cv19 phase I watch. But my peacock TV on phone app is buffering too much.

I can catch Biden's highlights later. I wanted to see drump screw up in real time.

[frazzled]

50. Everyone who watches him, for whatever reason,

and fails to watch Joe, is unintentionally helping Trump. He’ll say he had most viewers (yeah, we know he’d say that anyway, but it might end up being true.).
People need to resist their inner urge to watch him be crazy. There are plenty of horror movies on tv and to stream in October. Watch one of those if you don’t want to watch Biden and need some shrieks and disgusting stuff

[jayfish]

56. I Think the Big Takeaway From This Should Be...

that Shrump pretty much admitted that he owns $400m to foreign entities and he's working with the IRS to reach a tax settlement.

[electric_blue68]

58. Well, as a said I couldn't watch it anyway, and...

I've already watched Joe a bunch of times. I don't feel like watching him in real time this night. I've got other things I want to catch up on tonight.

[frazzled]

62. Hmmmm

[Lady Freedom Returns]

42. Fly, Fly,Fly!

Where's the Fly! We need some more fly action, ya know with this being the big 💩 show.

[mainer]

43. Based on Trump's Twitter followers, it's not going well for him

They're ranting that Savannah Guthrie is a leftwing hack who's SO UNFAIR and Biden is getting much better treatment from Stephanopoulos.

Haha, Trump had the chance to be on the same show as Biden. He chose to do his own hour with Guthrie. And now he's getting creamed -- even his own followers are admitting this.

[Raine]

44. Another Trump debacle

he's toast.

[jayfish]

47. Who is that annoying person behind him?

She approvingly nods at every inane utterance he makes. Soooooooooo annoying.

[demtenjeep]

53. is it diamond or silk's niece denium?

not watching so I don't know

[Justice]

51. Republican female POC social worker?

Wow.

Asking about fracking. So strange.

[whttevrr]

59. lol... wrong thread?

That's the Biden Town Hall

[chriscan64]

57. I am watching Joe Biden.

I am a little curious about whether Trump is making it worse for himself, which he probably is. I will find a recap without having to hear that voice.

[Dem2theMax]

60. Why in the hell would ANYONE watch????

Just askin'.

So not watching. Am watching Joe on multiple devices. Gotta help the ratings. For Joe.

[Nexus2]

63. Rachel is doing a good run down of the Trump town hall

For those that are curious about what a disaster it was but don't want watch they whole things.