It may be hearsay, but who here doesn’t suspect he had snorted some amphetamine or cocaine? I mean, the guy’s been doing business in the 70s & 80s in New York. That was the heyday of coke.
Those sniffs were quite in line with what a coke user would be doing shortly after snorting.
My guess is he had a cold, certainly his voice seems raspier in his rants after the debate on Tues/Wed. But of course, he can’t admit that now. He’s never even had a cold!
Edit: Or at least that’s what people are saying. I don’t know, I just heard people say that. Good people.
I don’t believe much of what comes out of his mouth, but I do kinda buy that he is a teetotaler, and I would have to imagine that extends to drugs. Not ruling it out, but I’d go with common cold.
Of course, if the situation were reversed and I was a Trump supporter, I would totally assume nose cancer.
So it was the mic with the sniffles? Poor mic.
Well, that changes everything! Go Trump!
Good! Excuses are good. It allows his monstrous narcissism to convince him that his performance was great, it was just the equipment that failed him.
And take Pence with you!
That’ll set him off if you imply his equipment failed him.
That was a great line in its time, maybe “pitiful helpless giant” is due for a revival.
Yeah, I know what you mean, but honestly, if Trump were a drug user, he’d never shut up about how he has the best drugs, and he’s totally able to use drugs without impairing his judgement, and how everyone tells him that his drug use is perfectly fine, and anyway, he has the strength of ten men, so drugs don’t affect him, and besides, he has a note from his doctor, who says Donald Trump’s drugs are only the best shit.
Nah. Charlie Sheen already played that tune; it would sound derivative.
Does anyone think maybe Charlie Sheen ghostwrites his speeches?
Maybe he had pneumonia.
I’m pretty sure the sniffing is a nervous tic. I first noticed him doing it when he spoke to AIPAC – which was also the first time he used a teleprompter. I wasn’t surprised to see him doing it again in the debate, and I took it as a good sign that he was rattled early. He started doing it within 10 minutes of the start time.
Obviously he can’t admit he was doing it, because that would mean admitting he was nervous.
Trump’s mic definitely had issues during the debate, it was pretty clear that somebody was messing with the audio on the video I was watching. It dropped out, popped a tiny bit, and changed volume several times, while Clinton’s only changed… once I think? It was at the very beginning.
But the issues were minor and the sniffles were all him, that can’t be put down to a microphone issue.
I don’t think he does cocaine. I do think he might have drugs that help him stay energized, though. But they would be perfectly legal prescription drugs.
And, well, the rules for the debate there actually say the audience should remain quiet. So Trump should have assumed the audience would be quiet.
I’ve not heard anyone who was there claim they had trouble actually hearing what he said, BTW. Sounds more like Trump found a real but minor issue, and was blaming that for his bad performance.
It makes more sense to do that, I think. Otherwise I don’t think the idea of the microphone would have crossed his mind until after the sniffing stuff, so he wouldn’t seem to be contradicting himself about the mic.
In this case, “A tool always blames bad workmen.”
So, there were volume issues inside the hall? So what? The debate audience is not supposed to be responding any damn way. As we have discussed before, they don’t even need to be there!
His mic didn’t create the sniffles, it didn’t make him say stupid shit, and it didn’t make him be his usual interrupting oafish self.
Also, not surprising that he may have caused the issues by touching the mic. Mics are notoriously sensitive and easily broken, and Cheetoface is constantly adjusting the mics put in front of him. I noticed it in the primaries and in many of his stump speeches. He seems to think the mic needs to be positioned right in front of his mouth to work, which is why he always leans down and into the mic.
In my experience in doing sound for broadcast events, there are generally two entirely separate mixes – one for the house PA and one for the broadcast feed. A bad house sound should have almost no effect on the broadcast sound, except for some really blatant things like if the house mix gets into a feedback loop and then the broadcast audience might hear the hum or screech of that happening.
There’s also a pretty good chance that the two mixes used different mikes altogether, since each person had a wireless lavalier mike and a podium mounted one. Since the lavaliers are commonly omnidirectional and prone to feedback in PA systems, it’s likely it was used as the broadcast source and the podium ones (typically more directional) were used for the PA system, with either being a backup for both systems if one mike failed.
I don’t have a site for this, since I can’t remember where I heard/read it, but my understanding was that the mic issue was corrected in the first few minutes of the debate, before Trump went off the rails. Although, I suppose he could argue that it put him off his game.