Say what you want about it (and I'm gonna!) at last count it had over 156M views. Total upstage, winning the war without a shot fired.
The interview is 46:12 and the first 11.5 minutes is nothing but Trump making silly names and commentary about everyone he can think of. There are no hard questions, there's no policy, its just a bunch of hot air. A total waste of time. At the 11:30 mark, Trump touches on the Russian/Ukrainian war, but its just empty rhetoric that ends with a "If I were President it would never have started". Ok, but...how would you have prevented it? How would you stop it? Nothing. No question, no answer.
That lasts for 30 seconds more and then he attacks Kamala and her speech and then goes after Gavin Newsom, whom he takes a few minor shots on about his record and then back to Biden's fragility, etc. And we're now at 15:00. Then about North Korea and how Trump "got along with him and got him to behave". And how it would have been nuclear war if Hillary had won when she raced. Then he attacks Chris Wallace on the debate stage and how he didn't let Trump ask the question about the mayor of Moscow and tried to interfere with it during his debate with Biden.
And now we're at 17:47, and still zero substance or policy. Tucker, at this point, asks if he as a preference who runs against him from the Democrats. Trump goes around slamming Newsom and Biden, etc. So we spend the next two minutes about the many indictments failing and how Trump says the American people know its political motivated (and we do, no disagreement here) but then goes back to how Biden is corrupt and incompetent, etc. and bought and paid for by China. Then a whole bunch of issues about military installations in Cuba of all places...and we spend another minute talking about the building of the Panama Canal where Trump says we lost 35k people (25k people actually died, but no one is going to know that, nor does it have anything to do with why we should be interviewing Trump). And how we should never have given the canal away after building it. And now we're up to 24:30 minutes talking about the Panama Canal before we get back to Biden not being able to put together two sentences. Again.
At 25:30 he finally gets into talking about issues with voting and some specifics, and then talks about overall Democratic policy. And we go for a few minutes before he spends 90 seconds talking about water faucet limiters and Whirlpool washers where Korean washing machines were being "dumped" in America and some other nonsense that is almost impossible to follow. Tucker is staring on politely as if he's trying to figure out where this is going. He's (Trump) trying to go off about the EPA and how it has water restrictions that don't work. I get it, and fine, its something to call out, but there are just soooo many things of import to talk about. What the hell is this?
31:00 - finally a good question. "If you get elected again, how do you keep the agencies under control? How do you keep the FBI, CIA, etc specifically under control?" And he goes off about firing Comey and some nonsense about Hillary and the odds of the election. What? And then we spend the next few minutes on the Russian disinformation scandal. Sigh.
33:55, Tucker redirects and asks "what about Mike Pence"? And then we're back to voter fraud and how Pence had the right to send votes back to the legislature. And how he was disappointed in Pence. Then the next seven minutes about how the election should have been more formally challenged and blah blah blah...give it a rest already. Its done. What are you going to do if elected?
At 42:00 he goes after McConnell. At 42:49, with less than 4 minutes to go, Tucker asks "last question, if you're elected again, what's your number one priority?" Finally, we'll get something, right? "The border" he states. So his number one priority is the border. At least he didn't tell us he'd build a wall. Ok, I can get behind solving the border crisis. And the last few minutes are all about where people are coming in from, how countries are emptying our their mental institutions or something and how Trump built almost 500 miles of border wall. And it ends about Jan 6 and Tucker's question about whether we're moving towards civil war.
That was it. What a colossal waste of time to watch. Why couldn't get speak specifically about policy? Why can't we ever?
Next, I'm going to try to go watch a replay of the debate to see what a ridiculously bad showing that was.
The interview is 46:12 and the first 11.5 minutes is nothing but Trump making silly names and commentary about everyone he can think of. There are no hard questions, there's no policy, its just a bunch of hot air. A total waste of time. At the 11:30 mark, Trump touches on the Russian/Ukrainian war, but its just empty rhetoric that ends with a "If I were President it would never have started". Ok, but...how would you have prevented it? How would you stop it? Nothing. No question, no answer.
That lasts for 30 seconds more and then he attacks Kamala and her speech and then goes after Gavin Newsom, whom he takes a few minor shots on about his record and then back to Biden's fragility, etc. And we're now at 15:00. Then about North Korea and how Trump "got along with him and got him to behave". And how it would have been nuclear war if Hillary had won when she raced. Then he attacks Chris Wallace on the debate stage and how he didn't let Trump ask the question about the mayor of Moscow and tried to interfere with it during his debate with Biden.
And now we're at 17:47, and still zero substance or policy. Tucker, at this point, asks if he as a preference who runs against him from the Democrats. Trump goes around slamming Newsom and Biden, etc. So we spend the next two minutes about the many indictments failing and how Trump says the American people know its political motivated (and we do, no disagreement here) but then goes back to how Biden is corrupt and incompetent, etc. and bought and paid for by China. Then a whole bunch of issues about military installations in Cuba of all places...and we spend another minute talking about the building of the Panama Canal where Trump says we lost 35k people (25k people actually died, but no one is going to know that, nor does it have anything to do with why we should be interviewing Trump). And how we should never have given the canal away after building it. And now we're up to 24:30 minutes talking about the Panama Canal before we get back to Biden not being able to put together two sentences. Again.
At 25:30 he finally gets into talking about issues with voting and some specifics, and then talks about overall Democratic policy. And we go for a few minutes before he spends 90 seconds talking about water faucet limiters and Whirlpool washers where Korean washing machines were being "dumped" in America and some other nonsense that is almost impossible to follow. Tucker is staring on politely as if he's trying to figure out where this is going. He's (Trump) trying to go off about the EPA and how it has water restrictions that don't work. I get it, and fine, its something to call out, but there are just soooo many things of import to talk about. What the hell is this?
31:00 - finally a good question. "If you get elected again, how do you keep the agencies under control? How do you keep the FBI, CIA, etc specifically under control?" And he goes off about firing Comey and some nonsense about Hillary and the odds of the election. What? And then we spend the next few minutes on the Russian disinformation scandal. Sigh.
33:55, Tucker redirects and asks "what about Mike Pence"? And then we're back to voter fraud and how Pence had the right to send votes back to the legislature. And how he was disappointed in Pence. Then the next seven minutes about how the election should have been more formally challenged and blah blah blah...give it a rest already. Its done. What are you going to do if elected?
At 42:00 he goes after McConnell. At 42:49, with less than 4 minutes to go, Tucker asks "last question, if you're elected again, what's your number one priority?" Finally, we'll get something, right? "The border" he states. So his number one priority is the border. At least he didn't tell us he'd build a wall. Ok, I can get behind solving the border crisis. And the last few minutes are all about where people are coming in from, how countries are emptying our their mental institutions or something and how Trump built almost 500 miles of border wall. And it ends about Jan 6 and Tucker's question about whether we're moving towards civil war.
That was it. What a colossal waste of time to watch. Why couldn't get speak specifically about policy? Why can't we ever?
Next, I'm going to try to go watch a replay of the debate to see what a ridiculously bad showing that was.
