Post by Bradley K. Sherman| Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense
| Interview
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| The former president attempted to "weave" his way through
| an interview with Bloomberg News, but couldn't escape his
| own policy black hole
| ...
<https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pressed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/>
Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait did not take it easy on Trump,
and it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception of
the mechanics of or the potential ramifications of the economic platform
he’s running on. Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed
with real questions about his policies.
Micklethwait spent most of the interview attempting to break Trump out of
what the former president repeatedly referred to as “the weave,” his term
for his rambling digressions — with ever-decreasing intelligibility — and
general inability to focus on a given topic for more than a few seconds
during his rallies and interviews.
Micklethwait didn’t weave along with Trump, however, repeatedly working to
bring him back on topic and answer the actual questions. The grilling
exposed Trump’s total cluelessness with regard to his own economic policy,
and led Trump to attack Micklethwait as biased.
Just some highlight sub-headings from the article:
Trump gets schooled on tariffs
Trump gets frustrated and bashes the interviewer
Trump responds to a question about Google by ranting about voting in Virginia
Trump claims immigrants would kill an audience member when asked how
deportations will affect the job market
Trump responds to a question about how he’d cut government spending by
talking about Air Force One
Trump is unable to say how he’d help small businesses
Trump doesn’t deny he’s been talking to Putin since he left office
Trump mocks autoworkers
Trump says Jan. 6 riot was filled with “love and peace”
Trump claims his rambling is strategic
The former president claimed that his speaking style was “called the weave”
and that “it’s all these different things happening.”
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