From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2016_34/1687251/160828-tr   
   mp-shrug-hg-1327_39b3629f903f68fa3f035a951595e4c1.jpg   
      
   Trump's interview debacle sends a warning for the fall campaign   
      
   (CNN) Donald Trump's weak and flailing interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios   
   fired a warning flare about the President's hopes for reelection, if his   
   campaign and White House staff programed to fulfill his yearning for praise   
   are prepared to recognize it.   
   Trump came across as ill-prepared, narcissistic and far from in control of the   
   coronavirus pandemic.   
      
   It was a far cry from the image of courageous leadership and energetic,   
   unstinting commitment on behalf of Americans that his aides spend every day   
   trying to sketch.   
      
   It is hard to remember an interview in which a sitting President was more   
   unsparingly exposed or seemed so unequal to the magnitude of a crisis that is   
   threatening the American people and is nowhere near ending.   
      
   When Trump was fact-checked in real time, Trump's flame-throwing interview   
   technique fizzled. When Swan frustrated his scattershot attempts to jump to   
   another subject, Trump wilted. Under pressure, he provided the kind of offhand   
   remark that could define    
   a political race if properly used by an opponent.   
      
   "It is what it is," Trump said, appearing callous and disconnected about a   
   Covid-19 death toll that has reached 150,000 Americans. When he was   
   challenged, Trump responded with nonsensical answers, grasping for a counter   
   to simple questions about his    
   handling of the pandemic.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus   
   election-2020-joe-biden/index.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)