The town hall

[cous0226]

I’ll watch for some of you. He is rambling and he looks awful and very tired.

[heat40]

Is he getting pushback? And is it effective pushback? I refuse to watch

[NewOrleans]

Do you hate yourself, or do you love us? 😂

[cous0226]

May 10, 2023 19:15:38 GMT -5 heat40 said:

Is he getting pushback? And is it effective pushback? I refuse to watch

Kaitlin is trying. Whenever she pushes back he goes back into rambling mode. She is trying to correct him every time he lies but it’s exhausting. This is why you don’t give him this platform. The audience is also pro trump.

[cous0226]

May 10, 2023 19:19:05 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Do you hate yourself, or do you love us? 😂

Send me a Venmo payment for this. But really it’s the usual same shit.

[heat40]

I don’t think CNN will come out looking good with this town hall. But maybe im not the demographic they want anymore.

[cous0226]

May 10, 2023 19:24:09 GMT -5 heat40 said:

I don’t think CNN will come out looking good with this town hall. But maybe im not the demographic they want anymore.

They’ll get ratings. It’s all they care about. Someone asks a question. He rambles. Kaitlyn interrupts him, he ignores her and then continues to ramble.

[seeyalater52]

May 10, 2023 19:19:51 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

May 10, 2023 19:15:38 GMT -5 heat40 said:

Is he getting pushback? And is it effective pushback? I refuse to watch

Kaitlin is trying. Whenever she pushes back he goes back into rambling mode. She is trying to correct him every time he lies but it’s exhausting. This is why you don’t give him this platform. The audience is also pro trump.

This is why it is such a stupid idea. They want to play it like they’re being clever and turning the tables but this is all ratings and his base is going to eat it up just like they do every other pathetic thing he does. This makes them like him more. CNN knows that.

[notsopicky]

Apparently you need a gun for entertainment. Entertainment.

I cannot BELIEVE that CNN is airing this bullshit.

[cous0226]

May 10, 2023 19:37:52 GMT -5 notsopicky said:

Apparently you need a gun for entertainment. Entertainment.

I cannot BELIEVE that CNN is airing this bullshit.

It’s been 40 minutes. I’d say Trump 35 minutes of rambling and Kaitlyn about 5 minutes.

[NewOrleans]

May 10, 2023 19:20:42 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

May 10, 2023 19:19:05 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Do you hate yourself, or do you love us? 😂

Send me a Venmo payment for this. But really it’s the usual same shit.

Nah Venmo is for the young!  We olds are on PayPal still!  

[MixedBerryJam]

I swear I’m not a stupid woman but I honestly thought it was a good thing that Colbert’s producer took over the helm at CNN. In my wildest … nightmare … I never imagined this bullshit. This is worse the the cameras locked on the empty podium and we have learned nothing. I feel worse about our future now than I did on January 20, 2017.

[MixedBerryJam]

May 10, 2023 19:49:53 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

May 10, 2023 19:20:42 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

Send me a Venmo payment for this. But really it’s the usual same shit.

Nah Venmo is for the young!  We olds are on PayPal still!  

Speak for yourself! My tenants paid their rent through Venmo! #BigFan

[NewOrleans]

May 10, 2023 19:58:16 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

May 10, 2023 19:49:53 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Nah Venmo is for the young!  We olds are on PayPal still!  

Speak for yourself! My tenants paid their rent through Venmo! #BigFan

Next you’re going to say you’re on TikTok and wearing those half-shirts

[cous0226]

May 10, 2023 19:56:34 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

I swear I’m not a stupid woman but I honestly thought it was a good thing that Colbert’s producer took over the helm at CNN. In my wildest … nightmare … I never imagined this bullshit. This is worse the the cameras locked on the empty podium and we have learned nothing. I feel worse about our future now than I did on January 20, 2017.

Cnn has an after show and they’ll applaud Kaitlin for doing a great job. Twitter is mostly quiet from reporters since they all don’t want to piss cnn off. He just called Kaitlyn a nasty woman.

[cous0226]

Ok it’s over and now on the after show cnn is calling out all his
Lies like the town hall didn’t just happen on CNN.

[MixedBerryJam]

May 10, 2023 20:03:49 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

May 10, 2023 19:58:16 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Speak for yourself! My tenants paid their rent through Venmo! #BigFan

Next you’re going to say you’re on TikTok and wearing those half-shirts

Not on tt and I don’t think I know what a half shirt is but I do have pink and blue hair.

[seeyalater52]

May 10, 2023 20:05:57 GMT -5 cous0226 said:

May 10, 2023 19:56:34 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

I swear I’m not a stupid woman but I honestly thought it was a good thing that Colbert’s producer took over the helm at CNN. In my wildest … nightmare … I never imagined this bullshit. This is worse the the cameras locked on the empty podium and we have learned nothing. I feel worse about our future now than I did on January 20, 2017.

Cnn has an after show and they’ll applaud Kaitlin for doing a great job. Twitter is mostly quiet from reporters since they all don’t want to piss cnn off. He just called Kaitlyn a nasty woman.

Heather Cox Richardson sure as hell called them out on it though! True national hero.

[Pom]

Lying, racist, orange grifter, rapey, wannabe authoritarian, insurrectionist traitor.

That about covers it until further notice.

[basilosaurus]

May 10, 2023 20:52:29 GMT -5 Pom said:

Lying, racist, orange grifter, rapey, wannabe authoritarian, insurrectionist traitor.

That about covers it until further notice.

You forgot rapist

ETA: NVM Sorry. You did say rapey. 

How about stable genius? Toddler palate. Toddler tantrums. Toddler attention span. I'm seeing a pattern.

[livinitup]

It could have been a SNL skit of Trump in a town hall and the dialogue would have been exactly the same.

Rambling, incoherent, nonsensical.

It if was SNL, it probably would have been criticized as “old” Trump material. “You’re a nasty person”, “It was a beautiful phone call. Perfect” “I was totally exonerated” “It was a rigged election”. All the usual stuff. On repeat.

[basilosaurus]

May 10, 2023 21:33:45 GMT -5 livinitup said:

It could have been a SNL skit of Trump in a town hall and the dialogue would have been exactly the same.

Rambling, incoherent, nonsensical.

It if was SNL, it probably would have been criticized as “old” Trump material. “Your a nasty person”, “It was a beautiful phone call. Perfect” “I was totally exonerated” “It was a rigged election”. All the usual stuff. On repeat.

Like how Tina Fey could just quote Palin verbatim.

[basilosaurus]

Depraved assholes. All of them. I refuse to believe a single one of them is undecided if they can applaud this.

"After Collins asked Trump if the case might hurt him with voters, Trump said the attention has actually made him more popular. “My poll numbers just went up,” he said, to audience cheers"

[basilosaurus]

At least WaPo opinion is somewhat critical. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/09/trump-2024-cnn-town-hall-media-coverage/

CNN has defended the town hall by noting that it has long held these kinds of events with presidential candidates. “The network is going to treat him like any other presidential candidate,” CNN political director David Chalian told Vanity Fair.

Chalian’s comment is wrong and misleading. CNN should, of course, treat Trump differently from other candidates. His record of antidemocratic behavior makes him a much more dangerous potential president than other candidates.

[neverfstop]

axios summary


He inserted himself into the delicate negotiations over the debt ceiling and said congressional Republicans should let the U.S. government default unless Democrats agree to “massive” budget cuts.
He downplayed the potential fallout from a default, saying it’s largely "psychological" and could be "a bad week, or a bad day."
He promised to pardon "a large portion" of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while saying that "a couple of them probably got out of control."
Asked five times whether he’d sign a national abortion ban, Trump never said yes or no. "President Trump is going to make a determination what he thinks is great for the country," he said.
He refused to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal over the killing of Ukrainian civilians: "If you say he’s a war criminal, it will be a lot tougher to get a deal to get this thing stopped."
He repeatedly dodged whether he wants Ukraine or Russia to win.
He refused to commit to recognizing the 2024 election results unless he deems it an "honest election."

[ECB]

Listening to a recap - of course the people attending the town hall applauded him a ton, and even to some of the more appalling things he said. One thing the woman being interviewed said was that he repeats the same stuff over and over, then the "infotainment" channels (Fox) parrot what he says, and then their viewers start parroting. He's said stuff about "If they come for me, they can some for you", and then his followers will say EXACTLY that "If you can come for him, then you can come for me!".

OMG!!!! YOU ARE NOT LIKE HIM!!! HE IS NOT "ONE OF YOU". HE NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE, and JFC, he MOCKS people like you!!!! And plus also - don't commit crimes and they won't "come for you". Idiots. IDIOTS.

America and the GOP will become a great study in how to mass brainwash a population.

[seeyalater52]

Surprised but also not surprised at the chorus of “Kaitlan Collins handled herself well in an impossible position!”

Yo, she could have said no. She did not have to host a campaign rally for Trump on national television. That is a choice.

The network also made a lot of choices to get themselves into this position so their idiotic statements about how it went are just… unnecessary.

And WAY too few people are talking about where KaitlanCollins started her career and the implications of putting someone like her as the face of this thing. Yikes yikes yikes.

[pixy0stix]

May 11, 2023 6:58:50 GMT -5 ECB said:

Listening to a recap - of course the people attending the town hall applauded him a ton, and even to some of the more appalling things he said. One thing the woman being interviewed said was that he repeats the same stuff over and over, then the "infotainment" channels (Fox) parrot what he says, and then their viewers start parroting. He's said stuff about "If they come for me, they can some for you", and then his followers will say EXACTLY that "If you can come for him, then you can come for me!".

OMG!!!! YOU ARE NOT LIKE HIM!!! HE IS NOT "ONE OF YOU". HE NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE, and JFC, he MOCKS people like you!!!! And plus also - don't commit crimes and they won't "come for you". Idiots. IDIOTS.

America and the GOP will become a great study in how to mass brainwash a population.

Yeah, this argument is always dumb. If you commit massive fraud, sexual assault etc. I hope they do come for you.

[basilosaurus]

May 11, 2023 7:26:19 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Surprised but also not surprised at the chorus of “Kaitlan Collins handled herself well in an impossible position!”

Yo, she could have said no. She did not have to host a campaign rally for Trump on national television. That is a choice.

The network also made a lot of choices to get themselves into this position so their idiotic statements about how it went are just… unnecessary.

And WAY too few people are talking about where KaitlanCollins started her career and the implications of putting someone like her as the face of this thing. Yikes yikes yikes.

Along with the rumors she'll soon be offered a primetime show. Yeah, she pushed back, but that's a super weak defence. I'm about to go godwin's law about it.

[cous0226]

Tell me more about where Kaitlin started her career?

I was just so annoyed that she kept calling him Mr. President. Ok but how many times do you need to say it? We got it already the 40 other times.

It would not have gone any differently with no audience. This is just what he does in every interview which is why you don’t give him a platform. He rambles with Sean Hannity. It doesn’t matter.