Still waiting for this question:
Debate question. You both have charitable foundations. Describe in detail the work they funded over the last decade.— Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) September 26, 2016
Debate question. You both have charitable foundations. Describe in detail the work they funded over the last decade.
Asks “is it okay” if he calls her Secretary Clinton. Smug and condescending, but mostly he’s still not answering this question. Which Holt reminds him. First thing “don’t let the jobs leave.” Ok. And he keeps sniffing. Maybe he has pneumonia.
Goes for the Rubio water drink. Donald is sick. Maybe it’s a tumor.
Clinton reminds everyone that Trump celebrated the housing collapse because he made money out of it. He interjects “that’s business by the way.” Because he just can’t resist. She’s doing well with the specifics and doing well with pointing up his short-comings on, well, like knowing stuff.
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." Nov. 6, 2012 tweet from Trump.
Oh, Trump says he didn’t say climate change is a Chinese hoax, when Clinton brings it up, in context of getting the economy moving again. He just can’t resist responding to these things. Now he’s talking energy. This is like watching, well, like watching Trump v. Clinton. Hyperbole and word salad against whole sentences that follow a coherent thread and have policy and stuff.
Politifact: Yes, Donald Trump did call climate change a Chinese hoax https://t.co/QprzGJYXUm #DebateNight— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) September 27, 2016
Politifact: Yes, Donald Trump did call climate change a Chinese hoax https://t.co/QprzGJYXUm #DebateNight
Still laughing at that moment where Trump interrupted with “THAT’S BUSINESS!” just as Clinton talks about 9 million jobs lost. Yeah, asshole. Exactly!
And he sniffed again. “You’ve been doing this for 30 years. Why haven’t you fixed it.” Clinton answers with all the achievements of her husband’s economy, and is answering with her record on trade deals. Then turns away from trade to other parts of the economy. Trump still gulping water.
“That is just … not accurate.” Something Clinton will be saying a lot tonight.
Clinton doing her best to stay cool while Trump is interrupting and yelling over her about NAFTA. “Donald, I know that you live in your own reality, but we’re dealing with facts.” He’s being exceedingly belligerent, she’s keeping her cool, though she can’t keep the annoyance off of her face.
New thread here.
So Trump is literally screaming at Clinton, while she stays cool, calm, and collected. So the question is, is there a strategy to this, or is he just this much of an asshole?
I know, I know. Rhetorical question.
Trump is trying to get viewers to forget his own ample record of outsourcing manufacturing all over the world, including in China, one of the countries he loves to cite as a threat he’ll vanquish. Not only that, here's Trump on the Trump University website:
“We hear terrible things about outsourcing jobs — how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses,” wrote Trump. “But in this instance I have to take the unpopular stance that it is not always a terrible thing.” “I understand that outsourcing means that employees lose jobs,” continued Trump. “Because work is often outsourced to other countries, it means Americans lose jobs. In other cases, nonunion employees get the work. Losing jobs is never a good thing, but we have to look at the bigger picture.”
“We hear terrible things about outsourcing jobs — how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses,” wrote Trump. “But in this instance I have to take the unpopular stance that it is not always a terrible thing.”
“I understand that outsourcing means that employees lose jobs,” continued Trump. “Because work is often outsourced to other countries, it means Americans lose jobs. In other cases, nonunion employees get the work. Losing jobs is never a good thing, but we have to look at the bigger picture.”
Now he’s on regulations. You want regulations on regulations. I’m going to cut taxes big league and you’re going to raise taxes big league. Clinton gives a plug to her website which is doing a real-time fact-check on the Trump bullshit.