The Daily Populous Saturday September 14th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Worried_Quarter469

a Fox reporter tries to ask Trump about the debate but he gets mad and cuts her off when she cites Republicans criticizing his performance pic.twitter.com/nEFOzD7wIH — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2024

Trump is notoriously thin-skinned, and has a love-hate relationship with Fox. The morning after Tuesday’s debate, he vented on Fox & Friends and demanded Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham moderate a future debate. In the past, he’s complained that the network hasn’t been doing enough to help him, even though they’ve long been a conservative entity, and have spread even his most far-fetched election conspiracies.

Is this another example of Trump’s ongoing cognitive decline? During Tuesday’s debate, the former president was easily baited and outwitted by Kamala Harris. He couldn’t stick to the game plan made by his advisers of tying today’s problems to the vice president, and he even tried to combine right-wing talking points on transgender people, migrants, and criminals. On Afghanistan policy, he gave a word-salad answer.

There are also his various mental lapses during the presidential campaign. He’s seemingly forgotten who he’s running against, made weird rants about subjects like bacon and wind power, and accidentally praised Harris and President Biden’s record at one point. Perhaps Fox needs to wait a few more days and treat the former president with kid gloves. They seem to be doing so already, editing out his criticism Friday when replaying his comments. Soon enough, he might even forget this exchange even happened.

crudedrawer on September 14th, 2024 at 06:55 UTC »

The only story out of this speech is his plan to blackmail states he doesn't like by withholding disaster funding in exchange for policy concessions. If Biden did this after a hurricane in florida I would turn on him in a second. No way would I support my party doing that. Pure fascist behavior.

surlysurfer on September 14th, 2024 at 06:20 UTC »

> He also referred to Harris as a “radical left Marxist Communist fascist,” an ideological combination that is technically impossible

He has no idea what any of those words mean

drexler57346 on September 14th, 2024 at 05:48 UTC »

Who could want this? If Trumpism stands for anything besides the worship of Donald Trump, it's the death of fact-based decision making and rational thought.

> He also referred to Harris as a “radical left Marxist Communist fascist"

This is meaningless. It's said purely because those words are bad and people get mad at them. He may as well call her a "big meanyhead". That would be a lot closer to what he really thinks. She's the person who doesn't love Donald Trump with the most potential to not allow him do whatever he wants. It's all such a fucking joke.