I don’t know whether this will actually happen…
…but if it does it could be massively entertaining:
President Trump has reportedly made plans to live-tweet the first two Democratic primary debates scheduled for next week against the advice of his closest aides.
Guy’s a showman.
Actually, I have come to reflexively distrust almost everything reported as inside info coming from the White House. Likewise, I distrust this report.
However, if Trump does have this plan, I do believe that his closest aides might indeed warn him against it. And I do believe that if they do, he’ll do whatever he wants to anyway.
But it could be so entertaining. Especially if the Dems go through with restricting live coverage to only MSNBC.
He’s totally going to do this because it’s the smart thing to do. Redirect the media narrative to address the Trump perspective. The media will have to report it and will, of course, put a negative spin on it, but it’ll be out there unlike how this usually goes where the Dem primary candidates get up and spew unanswered nonsense and get celebrated as wise and wonderful humans so unlike the right wing meanies.
Rachel Maddow is supposed to be one of the “strokers” i.e. questioners. That in itself makes for, as they say, “comedy gold.”
If Trump actually did this, I’d pay good money to see the show.
President Trump is a teatoataler, but I would love to witness a drunk blog, ala Vodka Pundit!
President Trump is a teatoataler, but I would love to witness a drunk blog, ala Vodka Pundit! Maybe a shot the word “impeach” is used.
Son-of-a-bitch we live in ever most interesting times. Our G-d who created all and everything must have a total sense of humor because he did not stop when he made rocks on this little planet of ours. Our world has so many examples of incredible beauty mixed with rather brutal natural occurrences and the freak’n folly of humankind. In the greatest nation that ever existed we had choice between Hillary and Trump and thank good we dodged a bullet and got Trump for a consolation prize and he’s not too bad but goofy as hell.
You could not write stuff as nutty as the last decade or so but if you look at the history of most every civilization human nature causes us to reach a tipping point and make a mess of most everything. Now we can do it with billions of people interconnected on social media with instant news which is just about as good as all the instant meals we ate on TV trays for years.
This next two years will be interesting and I have no idea how this will work out but I will continue to go to church and pray for us all. Stay Tuned !
If Trump does it, the potential for it to blow up in his face is obvious. But if successful, it will be a mortal wound from which the democrats will not recover before the 2020 election.
It would provide an inexhaustible supply of material for devastating political ads.
Geoffrey Britain–Yes, it would be a gamble, and could well backfire, but it’s the kind of gamble that Trump might take and, if successful, it might politically destroy a lot of the Democrats involved, and ruin their entire show.
You know how a nickname follows someone around, practically defines them, sets the terms in which people think about that person?
If Trump can manage to come up with a few apt nicknames, it could be devastating for his targets, and for the whole Democrat debate itself.
I’m getting the image of some of those old, iconic Monty Python movies that everyone knows, refers to, and remembers iconic images and lines from.
What if Trump could manage to turn the Democrat’s debate into the equivalent of the kind of dead on mockery and silliness that made Monty Python movies so memorable?
They’d never live it down.
Mystery Science Theater 2020.
Mystery Science 2020, who will be the robot?
As much as I would love to see the President do this…the troll-factor in just suggesting it is ginormous!
Imagine the nicknames…that would stick forever…forever.
Yep…risk factor is extreme to overload…but man what a riot to see the fake news heads exploding…and the already loser candidates squealing like piglets.
Trump will do what he wants. He flies by the seat of his pants. That has for the most part served him well. But tweeting during the ‘debates’ is silly IMO. Why not wait until the morning after?
Just saw some coverage of the majority Democrat House committee hearings today to consider legislation to set up a Commission to look at the issue of Reparations for Slavery, plus a few minutes of debate on this issue on Fox– a debate which had former Arkansas Governor Huckabee debating a black Democratic operative, a debate which started to get a little heated after just a few sentences.
The Left and Democrats have, especially in recent decades, specialized in Balkanizing the American people as a way to “gin up” their base–including their black base, to assure Democrat candidates of their votes, and to deny those votes to Conservatives and Republicans—this achieved by dividing us up into separate groups, into tribes by race and ethnicity, by sex and economic status, by where we live and how much education we have, and then fomenting suspicion, and setting each tribe against all the other tribe’s throats, in a ruthless, zero sum game the Left pretends and says is real; a cut throat competition for limited resources in which any gain by one tribe has to inevitably come at the expense of the others.
And, of course, by labeling conservatives, and Republicans–the Party of Lincoln which fought against and ended slavery–as “bigoted” and “racist.”
In pursuing the Reparations issue the Left and Democrats have selected to highlight, talk about, and to advocate for what is perhaps the most divisive issue of all, and by pursuing it they will proceed to deliberately polarize and tear this nation even further apart than they have already succeeded in doing, as white people who have never owned any slaves and whose ancestors were unlikely to have owned any slaves are going to be asked—actually forced, if the Left and Democrats have their way–to pay “reparations” to today’s blacks, none of whom have ever been slaves, nor have their parents.
This, after the sacrifice by primarily Northern whites of some 620,000 dead fighting the Civil War which ended a slavery that was championed, perpetuated, and defended by the Democrats in the South and in Congress–Democrats who created and led the Klu LKlux Klan, and who created and enforced Jim Crow Laws–this after the passage–over the decades, and against fierce Democrat “resistance”–of many landmark pieces of Civil Rights legislation to benefit blacks, and after the expenditure of trillions of dollars on social welfare programs focused most especially on improving the conditions of blacks here in America, leading to what had not by any means been perfect, but which had been pretty steady progress, and growing amity between the black and white races—signified, in part, by the growing numbers of interracial marriages.
Growing amity, equality, and trust that is, until the Left, Democrats, and the Obama administration–in order to gain votes and to gain and retain political power–deliberately went about a campaign of sowing and inflaming racial animosity, and division, which has very successfully opened old wounds, and reignited old hatreds, animosity, and distrust between the races.
This “debate” will not end well for us individually, for the races, for our unity, or for our country at large, and it will definitely not “move us forward.”
I just saw an interview with the President. He was asked about tweeting during the debate. He said the first he heard of it was when he read about it in the Wall Street Journal earlier today.
I thought Affirmative Action was reparations.
Snow on Pine: “……as white people who have never owned any slaves and whose ancestors were unlikely to have owned any slaves are going to be asked—actually forced, if the Left and Democrats have their way–to pay “reparations” to today’s blacks, none of whom have ever been slaves, nor have their parents.”
Not only white people but all taxpayers – Asian, Latino, African immigrants, Middles Eastern immigrants, Indians from India, and many more who are not white and never had anything to do with slavery or Jim Crow.
The whole idea is a shake down of the taxpayers. It’s promoted by no nothing race hustlers who think the government has lots of money and they want their cut. The government can give nothing to anyone without first taking it away from another. The non-black taxpayers (Most of us) should throw any politician who agrees with this nonsense out of office.
If I were Trump, after what he has suffered since his election (Constant attacks, backbiting, second guessing, slurs, etc.), I would leave the Dems to their own devices. These debates are going to be entertaining enough, and IMO, do enough damage to the Democrat cause, that it wouldn’t be good to take the spotlight off of them. Wait until a front runner emerges. Then take him/her on.
Michael:
Ha!
Snow on Pine on June 19, 2019 at 10:14 pm said:
Just saw some coverage of the majority Democrat House committee hearings today to consider legislation to set up a Commission to look at the issue of Reparations for Slavery,
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/19/young-democrat-booed-for-opposing-slavery-reparations-at-house-hearing/
The article also quotes Coates & Booker with the pro-reparations justifications, such as they are.
Just because it’s a rousing editorial, and we are talking about Democrats anyway…
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/19/im-an-oberlin-graduate-they-had-it-coming/
I’m an Oberlin Graduate. They Had It Coming.
Michelle Malkin / @michellemalkin / June 19, 2019 / 9 Comments
Um, another view….
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/black-conservative-nfl-star-annihilates-democrats-during-reparations-hearing/
Michael on June 19, 2019 at 10:32 pm said:
I just saw an interview with the President. He was asked about tweeting during the debate. He said the first he heard of it was when he read about it in the Wall Street Journal earlier today.
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LOL
People should not give him any ideas!
Or, the Trollmaster of the United States is ribbing Obama’s most frequent excuse for not knowing what his administration was doing.
I hope he does it, but to also show off how the questions are softball questions and avoid the hard trade offs.
Tho I suspect there will be far more hard questions than usual with Dems, because of too many candidates.
“…Oberlin…”
Seems to me that the Oberlin-“Townie” imbroglio is shaping up to be the metaphor for what will be the upcoming Democratic Party-“Deplorable” mosh pit.
Without any modicum of “adult” supervision provided by the court.
WOW!
Upstaging ’em without even being on the stage.
It seems so….unsportsmanlike.
In other news, why is there a congressional investigation , complete with contempt calls, over restoring a citizenship question on the 10 year National *ahem* census?
What are the chances that a Twitter employee accidentally disables the President’s account, just a few minutes before the debate starts?
If the President intends to do this, I hope he has some backup channels ready to go.