President Trump

bluethrunthru said:
Thats a flaw that almost 100% of political interviewers have these days. The word "why" as a question is overlooked and under used. Instead of letting politicians spout their bullshit unchallenged just ask them "and why would that be" and watch the flounder. Oh and that way you make it an interview not a monologue
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Yes, thought exactly the same. He said Ukraine shouldn’t have happened, and would have been avoided (in his watch), without the interviewer probing the reasoning and the gateway for that. Trump, of course, wouldn’t have answered that, and would have talked around it, but a robust and effective interviewer would have pinned him down at that point.
 
I've noticed that Trump gets sidetracked easily when talking about damage - he rambles about the amount of destruction in Ukraine, just as he does when talking about injuries to e.g. servicemen.

It's weird.
 
He isn't a political interviewer though, as he says himself at the end. It isn't intended to be a robust political interview, all Lex's interviews are about having a comfortable subject who wants to open up and explain their thinking to you. I didn't go into it expecting it to go deep into policies, but I did think it gave a good feel for Trump's mindset.
 
He goes completely off the rails - if we don't win the election, there might not be another one.
... the Democrats are evil people...the enemy within
... "fortunately" he didn't go to Epstein's island... fortunately is not a word to use there, surely?

The host telling him he's probably the most famous person in the world is very weird behaviour.
Parroting back how great he was at negotiating and end wars was pretty odd to hear to. Not really a balanced statement for an interviewer.

It suggests that the neutral facade is allowing a lot through - as per GDM's comment about lack of challenge to comments made. It strikes me that it's a good platform to make lunatic statements and have them on record.
 
Irwell said:
He isn't a political interviewer though, as he says himself at the end. It isn't intended to be a robust political interview, all Lex's interviews are about having a comfortable subject who wants to open up and explain their thinking to you. I didn't go into it expecting it to go deep into policies, but I did think it gave a good feel for Trump's mindset.
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He also does it for clicks and likes if he challenged Trump he’d get dogs abuse via social media.
 
Irwell said:
I'm not a fan by any stretch but I thought this interview was quite a good insight into the man. Hopefully Lex gets to interview more politicians and former politicians.

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I watched that and it was very good.

How anyone thinks that Trump is fit to be the president of any country is beyond me. Not because of his policies but because he has so many poor traits as a human being.

The interviewer comes across very well.
 
Don't think too much of a big deal has been made of it so far from what I've seen.

There's not much he could do that would stop the more culty element of his support defending him.
 
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