2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFor any member of the media: How to Destroy Trump
It would be insanely easy to destroy Trump if you had an interview with him. Remember the stir that was caused by Gary Johnson not having "Aleppo" on the tip of his tongue?
Trump is a bullshit artist. He doesn't know what he doesn't know, and he doesn't know anything. His answers are always truthy, in that he feels them to be true in his gut at that moment. And he never admits he doesn't know something.
So, just ask him a question about something that is fake. Ask him what he thinks about the snipe hunts, or the submarine races, or the troubles in Brigadoon. Ask him what he would do about the ongoing problem of Xanadu, and the threat of Kubla Khan.
Ask him how he would handle the menace of the Frumious Bandersnatch differently from how that poltroon Barack Obama has handled it so far.
Trump would never admit he doesn't have the first clue what the interviewer is talking about. Hell, he never does and that doesn't stop him from making up some bullshit answer.
Come on, media. It would be so easy to trip this lying idiot up.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)That alone should lose the election for him. Then follow up with abortion.
Reporters are not going to destroy their careers by asking a non-question.
Secret Trump Headquarters Opens To Public.
global1
(25,237 posts)Especially if it was asked to expose Trump's b.s.?
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)They are making 35%-38% more profit by switching to natural gas power production.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,254 posts)It was silly of me to think otherwise.
Well, one can dream of better media.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)....unless its so obvious they can't spin it otherwise......and in the end, this gives hillary more votes
radius777
(3,635 posts)who has made one stupid/clueless statement after the next, thoroughly revealing himself to be woefully unprepared to be president.
The media has covered most of it, but the problem is that it seems to have little lasting effect on his poll numbers.
The basket of deplorables, his voters, and rest of the GOP who simply hate Hillary and will vote for Trump only for this reason, aren't affected by Trump's knowledge or lack thereof of any particular topic.
Here is a great article about this:
Why Donald Trump Gets a Pass - POLITICO
mopinko
(70,067 posts)make him make himself the butt of the next round of late show jokes. he is used to being laughed at for a lot of things, but being shown to be stupid is not one of them, i dont think.
dont think you could get the media to do that, but perhaps it is time for a little more from the court jesters.
imagine if he had to put up with what bill clinton had to put up with.