{"id":47012,"date":"2020-10-08T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47012"},"modified":"2020-10-08T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:54","slug":"trump-chickens-out-of-second-debate-while-ranting-incoherently-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47012","title":{"rendered":"Trump Chickens Out of Second Debate While Ranting Incoherently on Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following his disastrous performance during the first presidential debate with Joe Biden, it isn’t surprising that Donald Trump has now declared that he will not participate in the second debate. He knows that every poll has shown him falling even farther behind Biden since the first debate, including the one by his favorite pollster, Rasmussen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s reelection prospects didn’t improve after Vice-President Mike Pence got creamed by Sen. Kamala Harris in their debate Wednesday night. So when the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced<\/a><\/strong> that the next debate would be held with the candidates participating remotely, Trump jumped at the chance to use that as an excuse to bail out. The CPD made the change “In order to protect the health and safety of all involved.”<\/em> That’s a perfectly reasonable adjustment considering that Trump is currently suffering from COVID-19 and has been recklessly exposing others to it.<\/p>\n

There are at least 34 close associates to Trump<\/a><\/strong> who have contracted the coronavirus. It would be foolhardy to get anywhere near the SuperSpreader-in-Chief for the foreseeable future. But Trump’s exploitation of this is further evidence of his cowardice. He made his intentions clear on Fox News (of course) during an “interview”<\/em> with Fox’s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo (video below)<\/em>, saying that:<\/p>\n

“I heard that the [Presidential Debate] Commission, a little while ago, changed the debate style, and that’s not acceptable to us. I beat him in the first debate, according to the polls that I’ve seen. But I beat him easily. I felt I beat him easily. I think he felt it too. He wouldn’t answer any question and he had the protection of Chris Wallace all night long. I thought Chris Wallace was a disaster. But I beat him in the first debate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s psychotic delusion that he won the first debate is typical of someone suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Every poll taken after the debate found that it was Biden who had beaten his unhinged opponent. Yet Trump continues to imagine himself victorious, while whining that everyone, including Wallace, a 17 year veteran of Fox News, is against him. Following the first debate Trump made the ludicrous assertion that Wallace is “controlled by the radical left<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/em> When Bartiromo sought to affirm that he would not participate in the second debate, Trump replied:<\/p>\n

“No. I’m not going to waste my time at a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about. You sit behind a computer and do a debate. It’s ridiculous. And then they cut you off whenever they want. I have a host [Steve Scully of C-SPAN] who I always thought was a nice guy, but I see he’s a Never-Trumper.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So just to be clear, Trump is saying that he is virulently opposed to doing remote communications in the midst of remotely communicating with Bartiromo for an hour long segment on Fox News. And he does these segments frequently with other Fox Always-Trumpers like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends. But doing essentially the same thing during a deadly pandemic for which he is Patient Zero in Washington, crosses the line for him.<\/p>\n

There were some other batty moments deserving of some attention that occurred during his bit with Bartiromo, who has more than proven<\/a><\/strong> that she is a fully indoctrinated Trump cultist. For instance…<\/p>\n