Stand Back Stand By President Donald Trump might have choked on his Egg McMuffin on Wednesday when tuning into his favorite morning show. Fresh from an aggressive debate performance which his campaign chalked up as a victory before it had even happened, Trump most likely tuned into Fox & Friends expecting the kind of sycophantic flattery he’s become accustomed to over the past four years. However, even the president’s pals at Fox thought his debate performance, well, kinda sucked. All three of the hosts—Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Ainsley Earhardt—made clear how deflated they felt the morning after the debate. In particular, Kilmeade seemed despondent that Trump blew the big moment in the one-on-one with Biden: When he failed to grasp the opportunity to condemn white supremacy and the extremist Proud Boys group. Fox & Friends' immediate debate takes -- disappointed about no "knockout punch," "when we were walking into work this morning everyone was just shaking their heads," and "we were the big losers last night, meaning the American people." pic.twitter.com/Xc2yx6MGKJ — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) September 30, 2020 After saying it was pretty rude of Biden to call Trump a “clown” and “the worst president ever,” Kilmeade went on to criticize Trump. “Donald Trump blew the biggest layup in the history of debates by saying, not condemning white supremacists,” he said. “I don’t know if he didn’t hear it, but he’s got to clarify that right away. That’s like ‘Are you against evil?’ Why the president didn’t knock that out of the park I’m not sure.” The disheartened host was referring to perhaps the key moment during the debate, when Fox News moderator Chris Wallace challenged Trump to condemn right-wing extremism live on air. Instead of doing that, Trump managed to provide a thrilled Proud Boys group with a new slogan that they rapidly incorporated into a new logo: “Stand back, Stand by.” Doocy was perhaps the saddest-sounding of all the hosts, comparing the debate to a substandard meal at a well-regarded eatery. In a heartbreaking analogy, the co-host said: “You know how you really look forward to Friday night, and you plan on going to your favorite restaurant, and you get there after a week of anticipation and it’s like ‘Hmm, that was just okay.’ I think a lot of people today are frustrated because we thought, on this, the post-game show, we’d have a winner... We didn’t see that.” Striking the same subdued tone, Earhardt said, when she was walking to work today, “everybody was just shaking their heads.” She added: “Punches were thrown, it got a little nasty... But I don’t think any minds were changed after watching last night, there weren’t any big zingers.” Kilmeade then remarked that “we were the big losers last night,” before quickly clarifying that he meant the American people in general, rather than himself and his two co-hosts. https://news.yahoo.com/fox-friends-trashes-trump-blowing-114424371.html
I think all independent swing voters know it was a bullshit trap question. If you answer, it sounds defensive. If you dont answer you're racist. Wallace is a jackass. But yes, trump did screw it up, the answer would have been, hey wallace, you're a jackass. move on.
agree, asking someone to condemn whats OBVIOUSLY bad is stupid and pointless. you could instead say, joe, do you support defunding police? or trump, do you support armed citizens at protests? that would be informative.
Still Trump could have just said I do not support it and condemn it in 10 seconds and any follow up asking same thing Trump can say he answered the question let's move on. Instead he double downed on fucktardedness with his Stand By.... WTF did he think and his campaign staff on news this morning was trying to cover it and explain it and sounded even more fucktarded. Trump sounded Presidential for the first 5 minutes of the debate and surprised me and then went to shit as soon as Biden started to talk.
The question wasn't aimed at independent swing voters. Also, I don't think Wallace from Fox News knows Elitetrader.com exists. More relevant news - All the survivors of Covid-19 including those that tested positive but had no symptoms... They will be classified as someone with a pre-existing condition. Scary to think about if people start to develop conditions months or years later considering scientists are still learning about Covid-19. wrbtrader
To be entirely honest he was probably just trying to be clever. People spinning that into an "order from the CEO of racism" are pants on head retarded.
That was an order to the proud boys. There is no way around it, nobody bought sarcastic bleach and this is far worse.