Because Trump has a history of walking out on interviews that actually try to hold him to a coherent answer.
The real question is why any real journalist still tries to get an interview with him. You know he’s going to ignore the actual questions, and just springboard off them to his usual rambles and rants, and if you try to press him, he’ll attack you for being mean and nasty, and maybe walk out on you.
They only persist, I think, out of a lingering sense that a presidential candidate is supposed to be interviewed by Real Reporters™, and they just can’t accept the reality that is a Trump candidacy.
“Would anybody else like to faint?” He actually said that after two medical emergencies, due to the fact that there was no AC at the venue - before playing 39 minutes of his personal playlist.
I believe the percentage of assholes among the general US population is higher than 50%, what I don’t understand is how so many of those can be so stupid and act against their own genuine interests.
My wife was talking to me this morning about a minister that she was arging with on FB or X or reddit or whatever social media she’s on these days. This guy’s issue was with the liberal trans agenda (my words, not his, but you get the idea) and that he was voting for Trump because he was against that. My wife asked him what about the poor, migrants, women, etc and how they would fare under a Trump admin. Don’t you care about them? And his response was basically yeah but… the trans stuff!
So to me it seems like there are a lot of single issue voters out there ready to vote for Trump as long as he takes care of the one issue that’s important to them, whether it’s abortion or immigration or LGBTQ or whatever. In other words the typical Republican “as long as I get what I want” attitude.
If half of the two-thirds of voters are demonstrably assholes, voting negatively, let’s say, what sort of [fill in your preferred pejorative here] does that make the morons who don’t vote? We’re talking about two-thirds of adult Americans dragging us down, here. Or perhaps we should be happy that those people don’t vote.
Makes it seem better only because it could be far worse.
Preach. For example, my next door neighbors, a gay couple whom we get along with very well, not only have several Trump signs in their yard, they now have two Trump flags flying proudly. Do they not realize that when MAGA gets done with immigrants, liberals and Muslims, they will come for their faces next? It’s a cult, it’s the only explanation.
A Georgia judge has blocked the state’s GOP-controlled legislature’s rule that would have required three hand counts of the ballots, which was a ploy to delay or deny the certification of the results.
I’m sure the medical emergencies feed his ego and make him feel like a big tough guy, never mind that he’s comfy and air-conditioned right up until he walks onto the stage to greet people who’ve been in the heat for hours.
I’ve linked this clip in other related threads, but it speaks to the discussion of internalizing the hypocrisy to still support Trump.
In short, if you pride yourself on tolerance, but still have a single issue for must have / must hate, then it always seems that your tolerance is secondary to whatever that single issue is. Whatever it is, it’s all consuming far above and beyond your other professed beliefs/interests (such as the preacher or the gay couple just mentioned).
Austin Powers father: “Alright Goldmember, don’t play the laughing boy, there are only two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures . . . and the Dutch!”
Which explains my point, and Austin’s double take at the end, due to hypocrisy of that combined statement.