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Why was Donald Trump so frequently unfocused and rambling during the first general election debate? According to a new report from the New York Times’s Patrick Healey, Ashley Parker, and Maggie Haberman based on campaign sources, it’s basically because he wasn’t really into practicing.
The Times reports that Trump really, really didn’t like traditional debate prep — the format where you stand up at a podium and, you know, practice debating. So he instead focused “mostly on conversations and discussions with advisers.”
When the campaign did try to plan a more traditional debate prep, the reporters write, “Mr. Trump found it hard to focus during those meetings, according to multiple people briefed on the process who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.”
I guess one shouldn't practice before driving - one should just do what feels "real".
I guess one shouldn't practice before performing surgery - one should just do what feels "real".
I guess one shouldn't practice before piloting a plane full of passengers - one should just do what feels "real".
A debate is not just being "real". A debate is a verbal contest to show how well you are prepared to deal with the issues that are apt to arise for a President.
As the article says: "...we’ve already gotten a pretty strong sense of what kind of president he’d be, even on the most important matters to rise to his attention — a lazy, unfocused one."
But I agree with you - Trump SHOULDN'T practice. The more ignorant and ill-prepared he looks, the better I like it.
And a "President Trump" who is too lazy to prepare for a national debate would also be too lazy to read and understand national security briefings.
Trump's supporters are truly scary. I never understood what happened in 1930s Germany leading up to WWII but we are truly repeating history here and its beyond frightening.
I guess one shouldn't practice before driving - one should just do what feels "real".
I guess one shouldn't practice before performing surgery - one should just do what feels "real".
I guess one shouldn't practice before piloting a plane full of passengers - one should just do what feels "real".
A debate is not just being "real". A debate is a verbal contest to show how well you are prepared to deal with the issues that are apt to arise for a President.
As the article says: "...we’ve already gotten a pretty strong sense of what kind of president he’d be, even on the most important matters to rise to his attention — a lazy, unfocused one."
But I agree with you - Trump SHOULDN'T practice. The more ignorant and ill-prepared he looks, the better I like it.
Ken
For somebody who did not practice , he did quite well. Hillary with all her lawyerly ways and weeks of practice could not put Donald away.
The next debate will come down to if Trump goes for the bait Hillary teases him with.
It does not seem to bother Hillary in the slightest. Go as low as she can go. Even get Chelsea involved , which is truly bizarre and sums up the Clintons perfectly. They have zero values and the only value to them is zeroes.
Imagine watching Hillary for the next 4 or 8 years climbing up the steps of AF 1 and that smug fake smile and shoulder shimmies filling up the camera. Oh, banish that horrible thought.
For somebody who did not practice , he did quite well. Hillary with all her lawyerly ways and weeks of practice could not put Donald away.
The next debate will come down to if Trump goes for the bait Hillary teases him with.
It does not seem to bother Hillary in the slightest. Go as low as she can go. Even get Chelsea involved , which is truly bizarre and sums up the Clintons perfectly. They have zero values and the only value to them is zeroes.
Imagine watching Hillary for the next 4 or 8 years climbing up the steps of AF 1 and that smug fake smile and shoulder shimmies filling up the camera. Oh, banish that horrible thought.
he's too busy meeting hard working americans, traveling the country and speaking on a nearly daily basis, no time to sit around 'practicing'.
Practicing is for people who don't trust themselves to 'say the right things' just by winging it. Give me the unpracticed person vs the person who sat home studying a script (not to mention colluding with the moderator with a bunch of signals)
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