Trump posts his 60 minutes interview with Lesley Stahl
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They both seem pretty bad in this.
He's throwing a tantrum and giving non-answers meanwhile she's hardly challenging him with facts
He's throwing a tantrum and giving non-answers meanwhile she's hardly challenging him with facts
that was very well done. While it is rude to interrupt someone you asked a question, it is fair game if there is no answer and he just pushes his talking point instead. There are rules to interviews. If you break them, dont expect to be cuddled.
Thanks. I glossed right over it because he launched into the "you discredited yourself" bit.
We haven't seen the 60 Minutes edit of this yet. They could easily cut to footage of him saying these things in the program.
That is why those "Trump is shitting himself on purpose takes are potentially harmful.
The nothing matters, all is lost hottakes are the spiritual successors to both sides are the same and your vote doesn't matter. They try to trigger nothing but apatism and sense of hopelessness among easily impressionable swing voters, to discourage them from voting.
And I'm sick and tired of this shit.
I'm losing my mind. Have you ever tried reasoning with a toddler throwing a tantrum? All the facts in the world wouldn't have changed this interview.
Lesley Stahl, legendary jouranlist, bad at interviews. I've heard it all today.
This is the one thing in american journalism I dont get.
Is it so hard t prepare a rebuttal for things they know with pretty much 100% certainty he is going to say? They bitch and moan, but when they have an opportunity to actually show their work, they do this. Is it because they dont want to be banned from interviews...? I dont get it.
Hogan Gidley seems like a name an AI generated when trying to find "the whitest person possible".
Yep. She was bad at containing him and holding his feet to the fire.
You cannot get a narcissist to admit things unless it is convenient for them at the moment. PERIOD. You can show all the evidence in the world and recall things they said verbatim and they will always say they were joking or you misinterpreted or come up with some other outlandish, outrageous excuse.
For sure. She knows what questions she's going to ask, she should be prepared for his rebuttals with proof.
Stahl knew what she was doing, instead of getting sucked into a back and forth with Trump like he wanted, she made her point and then let him hang himself with his rants. Nothing Trump said or did is appealing to anyone outside of his base, and there's nothing you could do to convince those people otherwise.
Both sideing a journalist and a US President.
Trough the looking glass we are.
Then don't hold the interview. There's really no point if it's going to be the same result as the majority of interviews with him. Prep yourself beforehand because the dude spews the same 3 lines of bullshit- have your facts in order to rebuttal against the lies.
Yeah it's not even a question they'll be doing exactly this... it's par for the course with 60 Minutes interviews to do cutaways to the contextualizing facts isn't it?
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Is it?
I can no longer tell everything since 2016 has been stranger than fiction.
We're living in the onion dimension.
Ok well you clearly, for some reason, don't think Trump comes across as an outrageous childish buffoon in this interview.
Seriously. His clever distractions and changing of focus never ever work. He undermines his new narrative immediately, or just gives people something as horribe (or worse) to go at him with. His base has been solidified for a long time, and none of this helps or hurts him with them. All he does is keep Biden's polling lead historically steady, and hamper his own ability to pin any bullshit on Biden.
Where did I say otherwise? Dudes a clown. Nice dodge though.
Let's be real, he'll just go again with 'fake news' and 'how nasty of you'
Yes which is why I wonder wtf some posters are talking about.
The interview could have been better in that I wish Leslie did have more facts to cover some of his talking points over instead of bickering, but either way the interview was a disaster and my takeaway is that the president is woefully unprepared to handle difficult questions - he's the POTUS, so I'd think any question is fair game. Maybe give him some easy ones like "So what do you do in your freetime? Do you have freetime?" just to throw him off a bit.
EDIT: Ah I suppose that's a good point some others have mentioned - 60 mins. does cutaways to cover things outside of the interview itself, so some facts will likely be presented there.
EDIT: Ah I suppose that's a good point some others have mentioned - 60 mins. does cutaways to cover things outside of the interview itself, so some facts will likely be presented there.
Fuck that. You think trump saying somehting shitty absolves this shitty response from leslie? So your telling me focus on how terrible trump is and ignore shitty reporting? Fuck that. I don't have to both sides obvious shit.
THis is part of the reason we are in this crap. Media wont fracking call out shit as it is. The media is what tries to both sides shit. Like if obama did any of this crap he would be crucified. But you think having media ask soft ball questions and letting trump's tirade go on with unlimited air time is the answer.
again, fuck that.
Yeah but who cares about him? At least people could see for themselves. But another member said it best. We haven't seen the 60 Minutes version. Maybe they'll cut away with fact checks and video evidence throughout.
Lesley Stahl is a saint. I couldn't imagine sitting through that frustrating interview without losing it and shouting at him.
He's like a child, he picks one word in your sentence and goes running with it regardless of what the actual question was.
Pence was just as bad as Trump in his own way. At least he stayed vaguely on-topic, but he spent so much time filibustering the interview with long vague speeches that she only managed four questions.
I love how he accused her of not asking questions about foreign policy or Biden, then she said she would love to but the WH staff cut the interview.
Can't wait to see this with proper editing and some fact-checking cutaways.
He's like a child, he picks one word in your sentence and goes running with it regardless of what the actual question was.
Pence was just as bad as Trump in his own way. At least he stayed vaguely on-topic, but he spent so much time filibustering the interview with long vague speeches that she only managed four questions.
I love how he accused her of not asking questions about foreign policy or Biden, then she said she would love to but the WH staff cut the interview.
Can't wait to see this with proper editing and some fact-checking cutaways.
Not a single person on earth can hold Trump's feet to the fire. Dude's a petulant child. It doesn't matter if the greatest interviewer ever is talking to him, Trump will still whine and complain. It's nothing to do with Stahl and everything to do with Trump's poor temperament.
Despite what some are saying I liked that she didn't "fact check" him outside of "yes you did," because we know it's true, and it's not on us to prove his eight billion lies are lies (they are). It's a waste of time to do the work fact checking idiots like this, of course they're lying, and by the time you dig up the clip they've already moved on to something else that's totally insane. You can't have an intelligent conversation with this guy, he is incapable of it.
Exactly. How hard was it for her to say, " Obama care IS what started covering pre-existing condition" , how bout she mention how millions of people weren't covered before obama care and now they are. The point isn't to try and convince this turd, but to not let me unopposedly go unaswered. Like he goes on and on and on about hunter biden and you dont even mention he was IMPEACHED even once because of that? EVEN FREAKING ONCE!
Even though this was his idea, considering the blowback on media today, I'm sure he's looking to fire "whoever it was that came up with this dumb idea."
So probably another intern or coffee boy is about to get promoted to Campaign Manager just to get fired by Trump for incompetently suggesting they release their own footage ahead of 60 Minutes, because Trump would never have suggested this himself.
So probably another intern or coffee boy is about to get promoted to Campaign Manager just to get fired by Trump for incompetently suggesting they release their own footage ahead of 60 Minutes, because Trump would never have suggested this himself.
Most of the time I find any comments about a reporter "owning" an interviewee to be exaggerated but she really did hand him his ass there.
I'm guessing she decided/was told not to bother with live fact-checking because they would just insert the clips/tweets in the actual show.
The insincerity is radiating off you, and your attempts to both sides this interview is transparent. Stahl did her job, stop armchair quarterbacking how to interview when you clearly are out of your element. Interviewers can't stop the interview in its tracks to show PowerPoint slides or video files proving Trump is lying, nor is it their job to go "gotcha" like they're in a live feed Era thread.
Not to mention, how exactly would that accomplish anything? Trump is a denial machine. He isn't suddenly to admit wrongdoing just because they show him footage of him saying stuff. He'd say it was fake news or a joke. And the interviewer accomplishes nothing except wasting time.
The proof is going to be in the actual edit of the episode. They're going to cut to the proof multiple times. That's 60 Minutes shtick.
"Nice dodge" lol insanely unnecessary. I wasn't dodging, but that irritated me, so now I'll bite. My point is, is that she's interviewed him before; she knows what she's doing. He's going to lie regardless. I think she clearly did a good job considering the fact that he's been whining about it ever since, and has been trying to discredit her, and walked out of the interview early. She royally pissed him off. The best interviewer was the Australian guy IMO but she clearly did her job and got him very heated.
you said it much better than me. Thank you :-)
That wasn't as bad as I was expecting given all the hype. It was mostly the same infantile idiot we have seen over and over in press conferences, debates, interviews, etc. She challenged him and called out his bullshit, but I think he walked out because he realizes he is likely to lose and is just cracking at this point. I dream that he does the same thing in tonight's debate.
People still think that you can change his supporters' minds? They can release the piss tapes and he can admit to it and all they will do is claim that being pissed on is no big deal. Who gives a shit about his supporters, it's the people that have some sort of decency (even if it's minuscule amount) that can actually change their vote that count. In all honesty, what matters most is energizing the opposition rather than changing anyone's mind at this point.
Do your mental health a favor and skip this. It's nothing new or substantial and is everything you expect it to be.
Hallie Jackson has a habit of doing that when the GOP WH officials try to push the talking points instead of answering the question.
Here's another one from a couple of weeks ago when she couldn't get a clear answer regarding Trump's pre-debate COVID test results, and it's just as glorious.
Yup. He would literally just pivot to:
'Where did you get that excel. Those numbers have to be wrong'
'You googled Washington Post? Bezos fake news'
'Hrm, it says so on the CDC site? I don't think that's right, Ill call them'
And Lesley would be chasing down that corridor again like she did with these pushbacks.
People are looking for that punch out blow that stuns him into silence when the fucker literally hasn''t stopped talking since he was five. Dude was taking calls while recovering from Covid, out of breathe and all; there will be no 'gotcha' moment he will acknowledge because he really isn't listening to you..just his own voice, LOL
I'll watch the trainwreck until I can't stands no more.
This is honestly exactly how these fucking criminals and traitors should be treated. Wish more interviewers were as strong as she is here.