NYT description of Trump's panicked flailing as Harris was stripping his ugly orange bark off before a nat'l tv audience

[kpete]

The NYT description of Trump’s panicked flailing as Harris was stripping his ugly orange bark off before a national TV audience of millions:

Former President Donald J. Trump was watching television on Thursday night and he did not like what he saw.

His newly minted Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, had just accused him of groveling to dictators, imperiling democracy, betraying American values and, to top it off, deemed him “an unserious man.”

So Mr. Trump picked up the telephone and called Fox News. The network quickly patched him in to its live coverage of the Democratic convention, and the former president proceeded to issue a meandering, stream-of-consciousness rebuttal.

Several times, the Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum tried to interject to ask a question. Several times, Mr. Trump ignored them. “Mr. President, let me interrupt,” Mr. Baier pleaded at one point. Mr. Trump kept talking.

The impromptu call-in — which lasted for 10 minutes, until Fox News informed Mr. Trump that the network had run out of time — came shortly after he had taken to his social media platform, Truth Social, to provide real-time commentary on Ms. Harris’s speech.

His posts there, capitalized in a haphazard manner, were less directed at her specific remarks than at broader complaints about issues that Mr. Trump wants to keep the focus on: crime, immigration and the economy.

At times, he digressed.

“WHERE’S HUNTER?” Mr. Trump asked as Ms. Harris came onstage, reviving one of his favorite slogans about the son of President Biden, who withdrew his candidacy weeks ago.

At one point, referring to Ms. Harris, Mr. Trump asked, in all capital letters, “Is she talking about me?” (She was, often.)…

When Ms. MacCallum observed, accurately, that Ms. Harris was “having some success” with women, Hispanic and Black voters, Mr. Trump objected. “She’s not having success; I’m having success,” he said. “I’m doing great with the Hispanic voters, doing great with Black men, I’m doing great with women.”

“It’s only in your eyes that they have that, Martha,” he added. “We are doing very well.”

At several points during the call, a familiar beeping sound interrupted Mr. Trump’s remarks. It appeared that the former president was accidentally pressing buttons on the keypad of his phone.

Finally, while Mr. Trump was still midsentence, Mr. Baier moved to end the interview and thanked his guest for his time: “We appreciate that live feedback.”

The network immediately shifted to an episode of its late-night comedy program, “Gutfeld!”

The host, Greg Gutfeld, looked bemused. “That wasn’t my fault, Donald Trump,” he said, speaking to the president through the TV.

“He’s still talking, by the way,” Mr. Gutfeld joked.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219372446

[underpants]

1. Gotta check this out later

[CincyDem]

3. You had me at sentences with punctuation.

[niyad]

8. Complete, coherent, grammatically correct sentences!!!

[planetc]

9. I'll vote for them, twice!

[tanyev]

2. "He's still talking, by the way," Mr. Gutfeld joked.

Is it a joke if it’s true?

[PSPS]

5. Don-OLD trump IS a joke. But nobody close to him dares to tell him because it will "set him off" again.

We all have to endure ten more weeks of this annoying noise because the useless media can't resist clicks/$$$$ from the freak show.

[barbtries]

10. isn't it ironic

that when a republican comes up with something actually humorous it's at the expense of their gawd dude?

[BrianTheEVGuy]

21. It's a signal

Even the conservative propagandists are getting tired of old One-Act Don The Con and his tired, creepy, weird and worn-out approach.

[JohnSJ]

4. Is the NY Times going to actually report the facts this time, instead of their usual both sides do it.

[Oopsie Daisy]

6. Don't hold your breath. I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[maxsolomon]

13. The article posted literally reported the facts of his call to Fox.

But just to be on the safe side, you'll want to cancel your subscription.

[4lbs]

7. Seems like he tried to post on (Un)Truth Social while talking on the phone to Faux Snooze.

"At several points during the call, a familiar beeping sound interrupted Mr. Trump’s remarks. It appeared that the former president was accidentally pressing buttons on the keypad of his phone."



Technologically lame and old?

Maybe your "techno pal" Elon Musk can help with that one.





Anyone want to tell him (and his MAGAt minions) that Social is the main word in SOCIALism?

[lastlib]

11. It's also part of "National Socialist"......

Jus' sayin'.............

BTW, how is that stock doing today? Tanking again? Go figure.

[padfun]

12. Apparently, Elon Musk isn't very tech savvy either

He made it on the backs of others.

[4lbs]

15. Yup. His claim to fame was creating PayPal and then selling it years later.

Sort of like a "poor man's" Mitt Romney.

PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, Twitter.

One would think that such a person would actually know something about the crap those companies are doing, but noooo. It appears to be too much for his pea-sized brain to handle.

He was trying to hit lightning again by renaming Twitter to X (much like he did when X.COM merged with Confinity to form PayPal back in 2000).

[lees1975]

14. They're working hard to lose every state by the time this is over.

It's not going to be long that the lagging, flailing, Republican financed polls are going to have to move on from the six battleground states were Harris now has bigger leads than Biden did in 2020, and start talking about North Carolina, Florida, Texas and Ohio, where she is within the margins of error in credible, non-partisan financed polls. I think we're going to be able to include Indiana and Iowa in the "toss up" category.

[Ray Bruns]

16. The Democrat's strategy of "Just let trump talk" is proceeding nicely.

[tornado34jh]

17. Like a bully who has been called out by the whole class/school, he can't take it

What's infuriating for him is that women who are mentally stronger than him are the ones calling him out. His ego is getting the better of him and he is crumbling under pressure.

[maxsolomon]

18. That snip's a lot more than 4 paragraphs.

Wow.

[Initech]

19. Let Trump and Fox wallow in their bile and garbage.

Fuck Greg Gutfeld and fuck Trump! Let's flush these turds down the sewer for good in November!

[rurallib]

20. I watched Harris' speech this morning and the thing that immediately jumped

out at me is that Kamala Harris is not in any way afraid of Trump, is in no way intimidated by Trump and in fact views him as a lesser person. In short he can not wield his power over her.

He will be sorry he met her.