This is Time Magazine’s latest cover. Donald Trump, stuck in a sand trap. They obviously released it after last night’s amazing debate. Amazing for Kamala Harris – she cleaned his clock, she laughed at him, she baited him into making an ass out of himself and then she laughed at him again. He looked old and tired and full of rage. He ranted about immigrants eating cats and abortions after nine months. He lied and sputtered and sh-t himself. It was a lot of fun. One of funniest parts is that conservative media can’t even spin this into a win for Trump:
Conservative pundits acknowledged on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris got the better of former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential debate in Philadelphia, citing her success in getting under his skin.
“Let’s make no mistake. Trump had a bad night,” Fox News host Brit Hume said. “We just heard so many of the old grievances that we all know aren’t winners politically.”
“She was exquisitely well-prepared, she laid traps, and he chased every rabbit down every hole,” added former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who often appears as a commentator on ABC News. “Whoever prepared Donald Trump should be fired. He was not good tonight at all,” Christie said.
Harris baited Trump by bringing up the attendance at his campaign events, saying people leave his rallies early out of boredom and exhaustion. She also got under Trump’s skin by bringing up his calls for the execution of the Central Park Five, the teens who were later exonerated in the 1989 rape of a jogger, calling him a weak person who is mocked by world leaders and questioning his mental acuity. “We have the biggest rallies, the most incredible in the history of politics,” Trump shot back at one point, veering off his message on immigration.
“Trump lost the debate, and whining about the moderators doesn’t change it,” conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote on X, formerly Twitter, referring to the Trump team’s complaints about the ABC moderators. “He didn’t lose because of their behavior. He lost because of his own performance while his lips were moving, not theirs.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was similarly critical of Trump’s performance. He said afterward that the former president’s debate team should be fired and that Trump was unprepared, calling the debate a “disaster,” according to The Bulwark’s Tim Miller.
Et tu, Lindsey?? LMAO. Trump and JD Vance both went (separately) into the post-debate spin rooms and that went poorly for both of them too. The fact that Trump waddled into the spin room to personally declare victory is not a good sign – that’s why campaigns hire surrogates to spin on their behalf post-debate. VP Harris had Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov. Josh Shapiro in the spin room, talking policy and being high-profile advocates for her. Trump didn’t have any of that, which is why he went to the spin room himself.
LOLOL Trump is talking in the spin room right now and it’s not going well pic.twitter.com/8A31oZ7UPE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 11, 2024
Cover courtesy of Time, additional photo courtesy of Getty.
