Trump’s debate facial expressions may speak louder than words
Trump is very good at facial reaction. Take a look at how he's reacted on the stage previously. Don't worry about it. Come on. He was on the board. I later learned of a Bismarck, a company I carried out U.S. policy North Korea and and and the Chinese president and Putin. He won't give federal subsidies to the to the gas and excuse me to the to solar and wind. He's a chaos candidate and he'd be a chaos president. This is this is troubling because we're at war. They've declared war and he got gets his foreign policy experience from the shows. That is not a serious kind of candidate. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Trickle down did not work. That's courtesy of Raymond Arroyo. But those faces said a lot and we're very familiar with them because they're now they're all gifts that are on on the social media. Those little facial remarks, Mike, when we think about a fair debate, though, that requires Trump being on camera of the choice of if Biden is speaking, do they show Donald Trump and his responses because he does that those are going to be the choices that are in control. Of that network. So I do think, and this is again the benefit of Donald Trump. And he's been the same guy in primary seasons and your major campaign seasons. He doesn't adjust or change. This is very different than 2016. That was just a free for all effectively. He really didn't know what he was getting into. He knows now and that takes some of the power away from the Democrats and from the system itself. So I think we are going to see a different approach. But this is where technically this could be unfair when we talk about this being fair or not and whether or not that the other person is going to get the ability to respond in a sense. And it I think that at this point, I think that's what we're going to miss. Look, I want to point out, and I'm sure all of us have seen this and and some of us have experienced it. You've got somebody on with you and there is a moment where maybe a tough word comes out. And we saw this recently with Jamal Bowman's, you know, profanity laced stage performance right before the primary here in New York. That the bleeper kind of missed a couple of those. Like it couldn't quite keep up with the length of the syllables that he was putting out. And the point I'm trying to make is it's a human being that's going to make the decision to turn off the mic and turn it back on. Yes, you know, And so there's always going to be kind of a pause. Do you give somebody an advantage if you cut them a little bit or allow them a little bit more airtime? And I agree with you, Martha. We're going to be talking about this as an epic fail or an amazing, not epic fail for years to come. I mean, is this going to be the new Litmus blueprint for how we get it done, or are they never going to try it again this way? I just hope it's fair.