# CNN Town Hall with Donald Trump: May 10, 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 11, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873 "2023-05-11T00:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/21 "2023-05-11T00:26:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “Trump is going through a convoluted mocking of E. Jean Carroll, whom a jury found him liable of sexually abusing and defaming, and the audience is laughing along with him as he speaks.” Yes. Because sexual assault is hilarious. And jurors are idiots. Keep talking. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/22 "2023-05-11T00:28:03Z")
Biden is apparently on AF1 at the moment and ordered the TVs turned to MSNBC instead of CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/23 "2023-05-11T00:28:49Z")
Attendee: What would you do to combat inflation? Trump: Drill for more oil. [Word salad as to how oil is the lynchpin of the economy.] And I rebuilt the economy by charging the Chinese lots of tariffs. Aside from me: wasn’t it Americans who paid those tariffs through higher prices on Chinese goods? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/24 "2023-05-11T00:31:01Z")
On the debt situation: “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/25 "2023-05-11T00:32:02Z")
Cripes, this guy is a compulsive liar. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/26 "2023-05-11T00:32:04Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Mod: Do you regret not testifying in the trial? > > Trump: No, my lawyers advised me not to. . . . Once in a while, he does say something true. Of course, what plays badly with a NY metro jury won’t hurt him in GOP primaries (and I’m utterly unsure if it will hurt him nationally). ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/27 "2023-05-11T00:33:59Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > On the debt situation: “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people.” I agree with this one. Though I’m sure we disagree about which are the stupid people. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/28 "2023-05-11T00:34:55Z")
On the 2A: “Nobody has defended those rights more than me.” To his credit, he does acknowledge a mental health crisis. Moving on, he states that schools needed to be hardened. He alludes to some teachers and administrators being ex-military. My reading between the lines: arm teachers and administrators, and appoint security guards to attend at entrances. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/29 "2023-05-11T00:36:51Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I agree with this one. Though I’m sure we disagree about which are the stupid people. I don’t. The stupid people concept is, well, um, less than brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/30 "2023-05-11T00:39:24Z")
On abortion, especially how it plays with women voters after the overturning of Roe v. Wade: Bunch of mush about how babies will be born, and then “they” (whoever “they” are) will decide whether or not to kill the baby. Mod: Would you sign a national abortion ban into law? Trump: [Doesn’t really answer the question; he would negotiate something because he’s a great negotiator. Then takes credit for overturning the Roe decision, through his three SCOTUS judge appointments.] ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/31 "2023-05-11T00:40:09Z")
I can’t believe CNN agreed to this one sided audience thing. This is nothing more than another rally for him. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/32 "2023-05-11T00:41:20Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Mod: Would you sign a national abortion ban into law? When pressed by the Mod to answer the above question with a simple Yes or No, he just blathered, and avoided a simple Yes or No. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/33 "2023-05-11T00:44:36Z")
What an idiot. The obvious answer, which he should have known, is “No, I wouldn’t, because the Supreme Court says that the federal government does not have the power to legislate abortion issues. That was the whole point of the Dobbs decision, which conservatives approved of.” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/34 "2023-05-11T00:46:21Z")
I watched for about a minute, during which time he bragged about how great the economy was during his administration. Then Covid hit, and ‘we had to do something different’, or some such BS. I refuse to watch any more. As others have said, it’s another rally for him. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/35 "2023-05-11T00:46:47Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I can’t believe CNN agreed to this one sided audience thing. This is nothing more than another rally for him. It might seem so on its face, but look at the attendees in the audience. Not one MAGA ball cap or Trump T-shirt to be seen. Attendees are well-dressed, articulate with their questions. RINOs? Perhaps, but by allowing a one-sided town hall, CNN is showing just how stupidly Trump can appear in front of his fellow party members, whom you’d expect to toss softball questions. But they’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/36 "2023-05-11T00:47:00Z")
Northam ,gov of Virginia was a doctor. He once made remarks about comfort care for a non viable birth. The total dogs breakfast they make of that is criminal. The only thing that shuts him up is the commercial break signal ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/37 "2023-05-11T00:49:17Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > I can’t believe CNN agreed to this one sided audience thing. This is nothing more than another rally for him. Yes, my thought exactly. He lies, they laugh, and nobody cares about the truth. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/38 "2023-05-11T00:50:04Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Perhaps, but by allowing a one-sided town hall, CNN is showing just how stupidly Trump can appear in front of his fellow party members, whom you’d expect to toss softball questions. But they’re not. And yet they enjoyed laughing along with him when he mocked E. Jean Carroll and his sexual abuse of her. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/39 "2023-05-11T00:52:20Z")
Of course. But their questions are good and solid and there are answers to them. I don’t know who could answer, but Trump is proving that he cannot. On the wall: Blather blather blather, “I built hundreds of miles of wall.” “Of course we separate families, because if they know they will be separated, they won’t come.” ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873/40 "2023-05-11T00:54:19Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > He’s just a seething gish gallop of endless lies. This is what makes it so difficult to watch – and believe me, I tried. The nauseating sound of his whiny voice is secondary. Plus, the hockey playoffs are on! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-town-hall-with-donald-trump-may-10-2023/983873.md?page=3)