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Wow, what a trainwreck. Trump's handlers ended the hour-long interview by a panel of three journalists, all black women, at today’s National Association of Black Journalists and pulled him off stage at 35 minutes.

Here's one of his answers. Is it racist, misogynistic or both?


REPORTER: "Some of your own supporters, including republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Harris , the first Black and Asian American woman to serve on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire. Would you tell your supporters to stop it?"

TRUMP: "How do you define DEI?"

REPORTER: Diversity, equity, and inclusion."

TRUMP: "Is that your definition? Could you give me a definition?"

REPORTER: I am asking you a question, a very direct question."

TRUMP: "Define it for me."

REPORTER: "I just defined it for you. Do you believe that Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman?"

TRUMP: "Now it is a little bit different. I have known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. i did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. is she Indian or is she Black?"

REPORTER: "She has always identified as Black. She went to a Black college."

TRUMP: "She obviously does not. She was Indian all the way, and all of a sudden, she made a turn and became a Black person. I think somebody should look into that, when you ask -- you continue in a very hostile --"

The interview went rapidly and seriously downhill. The audience groaned at his answers.

Whoever advised him to accept the interview, thank you so much. The Harris campaign has weeks worth of gold to mine for ads.


https://www.c-span.org/video/?537472-1/president-t...

The video of this 35 minute appearance should be required viewing. It reflects all of the Trump trademarks.

The first question asked him why black voters should consider voting for him after he has pushed false claims about rivals like Nikki Haley and Barack Obama, has told black Congresswomen who were born in America to "go back where they came from" and used words like animal and rabid to describe black district attorneys.

His first words of response: "I don't think I have ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner." Later in that first answer... "Are you with ABC? Because I think they are a fake news network...."

The second question asked him if he thought comments from Republican leaders about Kamala Harris being a "DEI hire" were appropriate.

Trump's first reaction was to ask the reporter to define her terms. Of course, that at first might SOUND like a clever politician ensuring any purposeful / tricky ambiguity on the part of the reporter is clarified before diving in. Of course, it might also double as an attempt for Trump to hear a few more buzzwords -- "diversity, equity, inclusion" -- to find the right sound byte because he couldn't remember the meaning of the DEI acronym.

The reporter simply spelled out DEI as diversity, equity and inclusion and repeated her question.

IMMEDIATELY, Trump's tone switched. He basically said he wasn't sure, he's known Kamala at a distance for a while but not closely but she used to strongly identify as Indian then suddenly, "she went black a few years ago," saying the word "black" with the same strange, sarcastic lilt he uses for trigger words in stump speeches. He rambled on that path for 40-50 seconds and the reporter re-posed her question again. At that point, he attacked the reporter and claimed the event started 35 minutes late because "you couldn't get your equipment to work" and "it was a very nasty question" and "it's a disgrace."

In short, the fact that

a) a REPORTER
b) who was BLACK
c) and a WOMAN
d) asked him a TOUGH QUESTION

literally pissed him off and triggered his classic angry response.

The next question was a softball posed by Harris Faulkner from Fox about inflation and its impacts on the black community. Faulkner's question included a lot of detailed facts and figures (of questionable validity but that's not important to this point...) but was long enough it should have given Trump time to think, re-organize his thoughts, pick out something from Faulkner's question to tie to a previously memorized talking point and go from there.

Instead, Trump began talking over Faulkner towards the end of her question, claiming audio problems were preventing him from hearing everything she said and making it difficult to understand her question. Then... He pivoted by stating the audio problems were due to the fact that clearly the first reporter didn't know anything about setting up a stage. As if ANY of the reporters on the stage were responsible for the "roadie" work to set up the venue.

Why would anyone assume that? If they do, they're an idiot and likely expressing some inner bigotry along the lines of "you can't be on stage as a deserving reporter suitable for interview ME, you must be the help." If he knows better, it doesn't actually help his case because it demonstrates his inability to compartmentalize and MOVE ON. He cannot let go of any perceieved offense, no matter how slight or imaginary.

Based on opening remarks, this appearance was scheduled to last one hour. The exact scheduled start and end times of this event are not clear, it isn't clear if the event did start on time or late and it isn't clear what the sound quality was like on stage. The sound quality of the video clip was not good but video quality is not synonymous with house audio quality. What IS clear from the video is that Trump cannot "perform" in any unscripted setting, especially one involving those not 100% aligned with his twisted reality, without converting independent qestioning into "attacks" which then tie to his deeply seated and barely disguised contempt for pretty much anyone who isn't him. His handlers seemed to recognize this and signaled to the producers they were yanking their candidate off the stage after 35 minutes.

We need to do the same in November.


WTH

I watched as much of it as I could stand. Trump is a smug, arrogant prick, but I already knew that. And his schtick of attacking anybody that asks him a question he doesn't like is so juvenile, Trump is a 78 year old petulant, spoiled brat, what a pathetic human being. The next few months are going to be comedic gold for all of the non-MAGA comedians out there, if the GOP keeps letting Trump speak in public.

Things just keep looking up. Biden stepping away (thanks Joe, we owe ya), Kamala is getting a good reception, polls turning our direction, and Trump's act is questionable. I rather like this.

I'm surprised that anyone would be surprised at Trump's performance at the NABJ. He was exactly who he is at his rallies. He spoke to an audience that wasn't a rally in the same way he speaks at rallies. There is no substance, no thinking, no reason to what he says. All he does is tear others down to build himself up in his own mind. That's all he's ever done for the last 40 or 50 years.

If you were to ask him right now how he thinks about that performance, he literally believes it was great and went very well. He thinks the audience was with him. He believes his degradation of Vice President Harris and the journalists on the stage with him was deserved because they are so much less than he is. He has become so addicted to this pattern of tearing others down that he can no longer see himself objectively.

There is only one place Trump belongs, and that is in a jail cell. He's already been convicted of crimes that call for prison sentences. So let those sentences be given and carried out. I would be happy to have him get some kind of psychological counseling or therapy while in jail, but it will be about as helpful as the therapy Hannibal Lecter received.

It is jail sentences that are getting some J6 participants to open their eyes and see what they have done. He needs the same medicine, although I doubt it will have the same effect on him.

--Peter

this supports the case that better conditions (live fact-checking, non-timid moderators, etc...) make a difference.
and all this, plus moderator mic control, is what Harris should demand when trump is desperate for a debate.
again, letting trump spew off-topic lies for 30sec unchallenged does not benefit the undecided nor MAGA; nothing is new.

on a sillier note, trump forgot (or was too cheap) to again hire this guy to sit in the audience, who he has funded to show up around the country since 2016 :
https://www.voaafrica.com/a/blacks-for-trump-rally...

Conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings didn’t mince words when it came to Donald Trump’s disastrous appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Wednesday.

“He did crap the bed today,” Jennings said. “The only question is whether he’s gonna roll around in it or get up and change the sheets.”

Journalists are too polite to immediately call BS on Trump's WWE m.o.

I wish a journalist could respond to Trump's vicious/ignorant lies.

"When you're done attacking me would you please explain how your racist statements align with your claim to being a uniter. "

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