Donald Trumpā€™s debate performance was far worse than even his inner circle anticipated.

While Donald Trumpā€™s team is publicly pushing a postdebate victory lap, many in his camp were privately disappointed in the Republican candidateā€™s performance on Tuesday.

CNNā€™s Kaitlan CollinsĀ reportedĀ Wednesday night that several Trump insiders were ā€œstunnedā€ by his poor performance and byĀ just how easily he fellĀ for all of Kamala Harrisā€™sĀ attempts to provoke him.

ā€œIā€™m told that as soon as Donald Trump exited that debate stage, he immediately began quizzing those waiting in his viewing room about how the last 90 minutes had gone,ā€ said Collins. ā€œWhile several people praised him to his face, telling him they did a great job, thatā€™s not what a lot of them are saying privately today.

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Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii RepresentativeĀ Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.

  • Tyfud@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Iā€™m not entirely sure he doesnā€™t stew on this.

    Hitler, famously, obsessed over negative news coverage/press about him. Even to the point where he threatened violence/war with New York if they didnā€™t redact a column about him being a wannabe dictator.

    Trump is the same kind of narcissist Hitler was, and gets similarly obsessed with negative press about him.

    I agree that I doubt heā€™s reflecting on this, but heā€™s absolutely aware the rest of the world thinks he screwed up and thatā€™s why he thinks theyā€™re lying. Because everyone else around him says he won, so how could, literally every news agency, including Fox Entertainment ā€œnewsā€, say Kamala beat him?

    But he is absolutely pissed and stewing in his own piss right now at all the negative coverage after his debate performance.

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      3 months ago

      There is one exception to the ā€œTrump hates negative pressā€ that Iā€™d like to note. When Dr. Fauci was called to meet with Trump after he corrected him on live TV about drinking bleach, he found Trump in his office saying ā€œMy god these ratings are amazing, theyā€™re better than cableā€. Oddly enough sometimes Trump sees any news is good news so long as heā€™s the main focus.

      The times Iā€™ve seen him really go off is when the news cycle stops paying attention to him.

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      Yep.

      Isnā€™t it crazy how common it now is to understand and converse with people about the specifics of an otherwise rare personality disorder?