Trump blows off debate tune-up

[brooklynite]

Source: Poltico

The format was nothing like what Trump will face in St Louis, when half the questions will be posed by uncommitted voters, and the candidates will have two minutes to respond to each question as Martha Raddatz of ABC and Anderson Cooper of CNN serve as moderators.

On Thursday night, Howie Carr, a conservative radio host and Trump booster, played the role of moderator, and the crowd was hand-picked by his campaign. The audience didn’t even ask Trump their questions. Carr did so on their behalf. Before the event, Carr had said Trump would take 20 questions. He stayed for about a dozen.

And while Sunday’s debate will stretch for 90 minutes without a bathroom break, Trump bolted from his town hall in Sandown after barely more than one-third of that time.

Trump’s campaign did place a two-minute countdown clock in front of their candidate on Thursday. He repeatedly blew past that time limit anyway.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-town-hall-debate-prep-229267

[vadermike]

1. Lol

Idiot But I think HRC and team are taking nothing for granted Sunday night !

[awoke_in_2003]

37. HRC is way too smart to take things for granted...

she is going to put the final nail in the coffin on Sunday, and she'll be using an eight pound sledge.

[Doctor Jack]

2. This quote says it all

Yet even without the duress of an opponent, independent moderators and anything but softball questions from supporters, Trump struggled to drive any type of cohesive message, either about himself as a change agent or Clinton’s shortcomings.

He now appears headed into Sunday’s debate in St. Louis at Washington University without similar preparation for the town-hall format that could be even more grueling. On the trail, Trump has largely eschewed town halls in favor of large-scale rallies where he now almost exclusively relies upon a teleprompter. He has also, for the most part, avoided media interviews with all but the friendliest national reporters and the local press.

[unblock]

4. he's a perfect product of the right-wing propaganda bubble

of course he's completely uncomfortable venturing outside that cozy bubble.

[jmowreader]

9. Teleprompter? Really?

How much abuse has President Obama taken over the years from the alt-right over his use of teleprompters? And now Trump is using one?

[progressoid]

17. John Stewart gave them hell about that.

[left-of-center2012]

20. "teleprompters"

I once googled that.
Every President since Eisenhower has used a teleprompter, at one time or another.

[WhiteTara]

31. Town Halls are Hillary's forte.

She is used to the small room format with real people asking questions. This one will be a cake walk for Hillary.

[Third Doctor]

3. He just doesn't give a damn.

He has mentally given up.

[TeamPooka]

10. He doesn't give up. He thinks he DESERVES THIS. Because he said he wanted it.

So he expects it.
A very telling moment earlier this year after trump won the primaries.
A reporter asked him about going forward about the "legacy of the GOP" and "inheriting the mantle of leadership of the party."
Trump immediately blew up at the reporter and said.
"I didn't inherit it. I won it. It's mine."
There is/was nothing before Trump in his mind, only Trump now and forever.
There is no Party of Lincoln, just the Party of Trump. So he can do with it whatever he wants.
He's a psycho.

[Bradical79]

35. I don't think he's given up

I think he's just not mentally capable. He lacks the patience, temperment, intellegence, and humility to prepare for anything likes this. He wants to be American Putin, but thinks he can simply will his way into that sort of power because he's Donald Trump.

[Journeyman]

5. "I'm in favor of this approach and I support this message (whatever it is Trump trots out)." . . .

~ Journeyman

[TeamPooka]

6. “Do you really think that Hillary Clinton is debate-prepping for three or four days? Hillary...

Clinton is resting, okay?”
Why yes Donald, I do think she is preparing to kick your ass in a debate again and be President.

[complain jane]

12. While he's out

buffooning and insulting and mocking the American people, she's preparing to govern for them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. I guess they didn't stroke his ego enough.

[MADem]

8. Howie Fucking Carr (pardon my French).

That wingnut asshole is the scourge of Boston. He makes this town less attractive. Nasty, bitter old assclown. He tries to pretend he's some kind of "expert" on Whitey Bulger, when all he does is recycle the work of others, dumbing it down for his moron audience.

Can ya tell I don't care for him? (LOL!)

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. I hope he pisses his pants in that 90 mins

And can't hide it behind a podium

[lonestarnot]

27. "Faulty water bottle"

[olddad56]

13. perhpas he is very confident in the Russian's ability to hack in and rig the vote.

[Judi Lynn]

14. He knows he's so stupid, he can't possibly do any better than he already has done.

It wouldn't do him any good to prep, as he can't really concentrate, he's never had to, he has always had people to do things for him, he's never had to do anything at all. It wouldn't be surprising to learn his dad paid teachers for grades, or hired someone to go to classes for him, and take tests, like the Walton (Walmart) heiress did for university credit.

No one has ever accused him of being "too smart for his own good." You can see the lack of intelligence in his eyes. If someone tried to put him through his paces, he wouldn't be able to remember it, anyway. Like Palin. They both, instead, have chosen to hurl insults and lies at their opponents, to come out swinging, and try to keep people from realizing how profoundly stupid they are.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Rules are for little people. tRump is a 'man of the people' except when he's a billion $ loser. . nt

[Retired George]

16. Great call, Donny!

[ailsagirl]

18. Well done, cheato!!

[PdxSean]

19. Uncommitted = Undecided?

I assume one is as brain-dead as the other, but is there a difference between an uncommitted voter and an undecided voter?

[Hugin]

25. And somehow they're going to find a full audience of these "undecided" people.

One has to wonder about the vetting process.

or they are liars... Either way the format favors Trump-a-doodle.

[left-of-center2012]

21. He's "the Donald"

He thinks he doesn't need to practice.

[safeinOhio]

22. The fox has always been smarter than the chickens.

He is so smart he has all the chickens putting up signs to vote for the fox. Now that fox has been stealing and eating chickens for 70 years, so who would know better on how to protect chickens. Of course once he is elected, he'll say "You knew I was a fox when you elected me".

[groundloop]

23. Donnie - don't worry about debate prep... you did WONDERFUL in the first one

No need for preparation, preparation is for L-O-S-E-R-S. You won the first debate so HUUUGELY, why mess with success?

[spiderpig]

30. Some of us might argue that he won the first debate BIGLY, but why quibble

over Trumpisms?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

24. I don't believe that he graduated from college without cheating.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

After Trump gave him a tour of his marble-and-gilt apartment atop Trump Tower—which, to Schwartz, looked unlived-in, like the lobby of a hotel—they began to talk. But the discussion was soon hobbled by what Schwartz regards as one of Trump’s most essential characteristics: “He has no attention span.”

[Javaman]

26. so, in other words, a repeat of tRumps shit fest performance from the last debate.

I'll bring the popcorn.

[vlyons]

28. I'm really looking forward to Trump's denouement

as a viable candidate. I fully expect that he will bluster and brag and blast out distopic hyperbole, while Clinton quietly lets him show us once again how unstable and unfit he is. I don't think that he will go the Bill's sex scandal route, because he's really a coward at heart. But I could be wrong on that point. Trump is toast, my friends.

[lonestarnot]

29. Roadkill decaying.

[Nye Bevan]

32. You did just fine last time Donald. Really. Remember those online polls where you won, big league?

There's no need to practice. No need at all. Just go out there, wing it, and be yourself. You'll be fine.

[Sunlei]

33. Republican party will have to let trump be coach on their baseball team of wannabe president losers.

[GOLGO 13]

34. He's perfect just the way he is.

"When your enemy is committing suicide do not interfere."

[Rocknrule]

36. He's too busy jerking it to pictures of Ivanka