Donald Trump’s Q&A: Vote
This is really interesting to watch Donald Trump get asked a question about antisemitism and xenophobia.
Listen to what Trump says.
Do you think he understand the question asked of him?
He strangely talks about the electoral college instead. If he was just giving a different answer in defiance, I would expect to see some emotional clues in support of him doing that, but I don’t see any, which raises my eyebrows, as Trump is very emotionally driven.
What do you think?
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I believe Trump did answer the question the way that he wanted to answer it. I do the same thing. I interpret his response this way:
#1. The electoral college clearly wants me here.
#2. The nation was already divided and at loggerheads when I got here.
#3. I just love Jews. Some of my best friends are Jews!
This is my objective opinion, as I most definitely am not a Trump supporter.
I don’t think he understood what a xenophobe was, frankly, or he would have reacted.
The reporter said “maybe racist” right after mentioning xenophobia. Maybe Trump doesn’t know what xenophobia is, but wouldn’t he have picked up the meaning from the use of the word “racist” + the context?
Trump has been called every name in the book, and has been for years. Don’t you think that by now he can handle personal attacks with equanimity? During the election cycle he has been referred to as “literally Hitler” probably more times than anyone in human history. Why would he react to a trifle like xenophobe?
Xenophobe is a Fake Charge anyway. How can anyone diagnose a anyone else as having an “irrational fear”?
“…one unduly fearful especially of people of foreign origin..”?
(((unduly))) … never has that word appeared in a definition. Its meaningless
Megalomaniacal racist xenophobes who love to star in big rallies and prefer to delegate the actual work of governance to trusted staff members are not insulted when people refer to them as “literally Hitler.”
If he showed anger or frustration, or if he attacked the reporter (especially in front of Netanyahu), it would have looked really bad. Answering the question in a way that legitimizes the premise of it (that his campaign had anything to do with a “rise in anti-semitism and xenophobia”) looks really bad, and if you think about it I think you would realize that.
Or do you really think he doesn’t know what ‘xenophobia’ means?
I’m almost certain that he didn’t know what the word “xenophobe” meant. Just like he didn’t know what the “CBC” (Congressional Black Caucus) was when April Ryan (White House reporter) mentioned it in a question during a recent WH presser.
When confronted with unfamiliar words or concepts, his tendency is to fall back on his standard B.S. shtick that he makes up on the fly, and which he has perfected throughout his lifetime. This is an attempt to con people to think that he knows more than he actually does. Unfortunately, he has his B.S. shtick down pat, and sounds convincing to the naive.
For sure, he couldn’t even remember the word ‘Xenophobia’ that was said and attempted to cover it with ‘every other thing’. Trump said “….long simmering racism and .. every other thing that’s going on.”
I have to say though, I also didn’t identify the Xenophobia reference in the question. I suppose that was because I was not clear on the word’s meaning, and that it was sandwiched between ‘antisemitic’ and ‘racist’.
>Do you think he understand the question asked of him?
Sure. I would bet money that he perceived the question not as a question about xenophobia or antisemitism, but he perceived it as an opportunity for him to show what he believes he wants to do, and to paint America as a bad place that is very divided, but he perceives himself as the only solution. He may very well have understood the intent of the question, but he was going to answer whatever he was going to answer. Just because he didn’t react or answer it doesn’t mean he didn’t understand it. What he did was totally avoid the question, but that doesn’t prove he didn’t understand it. His type is an absolute mater of this.
He will give literally the same answer (America is a mess, I am the only solution) to a huge variety of questions. That doesn’t prove he doesn’t understand the question, rather, he perceives the question as an *opportunity* to talk about his agenda, while totally ignoring the questions. The question isn’t even important to him – it doesn’t even matter, it could be about anything – but he perceives that his answer is the most important thing in the world.
Just watch, the pattern will show up in everything he says. Truth and answering questions are not important to him at all, but they are simply an opportunity for him to tell the world how he will make them great. It’s not driven by truth, it’s driven by agenda, and he turns everything into his agenda. Everything.
I think I know what he’s thinking, because I think I know what Bannon is thinking, because I read a lot of Breitbart. There is a lot of fake hate crimes, I would call it an epidemic of fake hate crimes both before and after the election. Nothing beyond saying mean things has been proven true, only unproven or proven false so far. There have been fake assaults, fake vandalism, a fake church burning, fake notes, fake hijab yankings, and most recently a fake racist note on a restaurant recipe that netted the fake victim $3600 from an online fundraiser. All of the liberal media have tried to tie them to Trump and him enabling racists somehow.
He can’t directly say that, he can’t directly doubt the validity of reported hate crimes. It’s sort of a deflection with a positive spin, really the only thing he can do with a question like that.
Here’s the way I think Trump should have answered the question:
In the mid-90’s, BEFORE it was PC to “cater” to gays, blacks, and Jews, I had to fight Palm Beach zoning laws so that–UNLIKE all the other exclusive clubs there at the time–Mar a lago could allow gays, blacks and Jews.
And my little Sunshine, Ivanka converted to Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew.
I also don’t understand the knee jerk reaction of those righteously “marching against” Trump’s Muslim ban.
Seems like a bunch of sheep.
I’d like to inform these protesters that the three most Muslim populated countries in the world–Indonesia, India, Pakistan–aren’t even on “the ban”.
“When did you stop beating your wife?” You can’t answer loaded questions that are designed to make you look bad. I think he understood the question quite well and deflected it.
He didn’t understand the word Xenophobe… but he did think he understood the question, so he answered it… however, to me he reveals that he impulsively has to pat himself on be back pretty often: he won the election with so many points + lovely people voting for me (like my family, and most of you) = people are becoming more lovely and unified, thus America is a safe place… because lovely unified people are never racist or xenophobic.