*apology. Why the hell is Trump literally "phoning it in" to Fox?

[underpants]

I apologize for anything related to Trump.

Everyone has some sort of Zoom call camera set up. Many pundits have multiple backgrounds. We regular people have at least some sort of nice neatly arranged area to represent ourselves on calls.

He can’t get it together for a call in to Fox? I heard that Mar a lago is on a COVID shutdown but no one can clean up the fast food wrappers?

[Dream Girl]

1. Zoom is too advanced for him

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. It takes two hours for his makeup and hairdo.

He has to PAY people to make him look presentable. Why bother? And then there's the teeth he has to place in his mouth, and then there's the diaper that he has to wear in case he's stuck on the video and has to void all kinds of debris from his overly worked colon. With a phone, he can sit on his fancy throne and share the bs from both ends of his corpulent body.

[GPV]

13. Presentable???

[SoonerPride]

2. He would have to get out of his robe.

[Ocelot II]

3. He'd have to put on his orange makeup

and get out of his ketchup-stained bathrobe.

[wryter2000]

4. That's what he always did

He had to be forced to go on camera when he was running for president. It’s arrogance.

[underpants]

8. That's true especially pre-election

He phoned in Monday mornings to Fox n Friends.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. He knows the picture they show looks better than he does.

[brush]

7. Either too lazy, too dumb, or both.

One actually has to exert some energy to do zoom, and have some basic tech knowledge of the program.

Of course the tech knowledge and set up can be done by an assistant, but then, like I said there is the energy output issue, as well as the personal grooming one.

[JHB]

9. Phone-only served him well enough on Scarbourough

Why replace something what already does what he wants with something that requires more prep work?

Plus, he likes the acoustics of his toilet seat.

[GoCubsGo]

10. The lazy MFer has phoned in his whole putrid life.

Why should his appearances on The Propaganda Channel be any different? Why put more effort into something than you need to put into it?

[stillcool]

11. I think his styling brigade may have changed

or the self-tanner is kaput.

[Mopar151]

12. He knows he has "tells" on video

And he thinks he can outsmart a human listener - remember the "perfect" phone call? He has been "calling in" for decades - it's his "safe space". A large % of his working life, was spent threatening and abusing people on the phone!