I'm not in the habit of watching "60 Minutes" (I was about 4 decades ago, but time passes), so I missed their version of the Trump interview. I can't say I really missed it because I've seen enough of Trump to last me a lifetime by now (maybe two). Still, a little context to what that clip shows:I don’t understand how anyone can watch this and draw any conclusion other than Trump is completely unfit for his job pic.twitter.com/DA87zGehXI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 26, 2020
Mary Trump is my touchstone for psychiatric/psychological insight into Trump, and even then I don't pretend I have any expertise in that field. I think of Trump as a whackaloon, which I'm sure is a very scientific category of loonie. Still, it's clear to me something is coming apart: call it naricissistic rage, call it decompensation, call it complete and absolute incompetence (my preferred analysis). Trump is coming apart like a cheap suit in the rain. And frankly, he's President until at least January 20, 2021; so this is not comforting.Mary Trump said that Donald has been permanently institutionalized all his life. She meant by it the heavy, ongoing support of his various handlers/sycophants who clean his messes, lie for him, and intimidate his critics, enabling his (disordered) functioning in society. https://t.co/bAOVUXY2lE
— Elizabeth Mika (@yourauntemma) October 26, 2020
But frankly, I disagree; and I have examples:Trump is reportedly raging at Lesley Stahl in part due to her tough questions on the fake Hunterghazi and Obamagate scandals. He hoped to conduct this campaign in a fictional universe of his own creation. But that's collapsing, and he's in a fury over it:https://t.co/d056eDwjTj
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 21, 2020
I mean, the questions were fine. But this was not some kind of wildly hostile grilling that should have triggered a presidential fight-or-flight response.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) October 26, 2020
The irony of the 60 Minutes interviews is that Biden faced much tougher questions. They asked him, and not the guy who recently bragged about acing a dementia test, whether he was senile. They asked him, and not the guy who just got out of the hospital, about his health. /1 https://t.co/2DqeXZS2m0
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) October 26, 2020
To be fair, Stahl had more questions that she didn’t get to ask because he walked out early, but there was nothing about his threats to free and fair elections, about about kids in cages, or about tax cuts for the rich, about corruption in his administration, or climate change./3
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) October 26, 2020
When Biden said he would only raise taxes on people making more than 400K/year, she asked, "You think it's a good idea to raise taxes when the economy's in dire straits?"/5
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) October 26, 2020
Employing another tainted phrase that dates back to Nixon, O'Donnell asked Biden, "There's a sense that there's a divide out there, that in order to address systemic racism that it's anti-police, that you would not be a law and order president."/7
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) October 26, 2020
"Liberal media," donchaknow? Come to think of it, that's part of the reason I quit watching "60 Minutes."But the starting point of some of O'Donnell's questions were similar to GOP talking points in a way that was not true of the questions that Stahl asked Trump, which were mostly asking him to explain/defend his actions or behavior. /9
— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) October 26, 2020
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