Trump released a statement saying he soundly defeated Guthrie last night

[octoberlib]

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From the clips I’ve seen Savannah Guthrie tore him a new one.

There’s one clip I laughed out loud at showing an audience member questioning Trump about corporate taxes and after he answers Guthrie asks “Speaking of taxes Mr. President, who do you owe over $400 million to?”

[padah513]

1. Of course he did

He knows he got spanked so he has to turn it around. Same thing he did after the first debate with VP Biden.

[TheBlackAdder]

30. And in other news, sentient dog poop says, "What? I don't smell, you smell!"

[beachbumbob]

2. you don't defeat a moderator, fool

[soothsayer]

5. He's such a dope

[BlueStater]

3. Of course he did.

Yawn.

You know, among his billions of flaws, I’d like to point out just how boring and lame he is.

[agingdem]

11. and so predictable ...

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4 years of bullshit...Guthrie decimated him..ridiculed and diminished him...trump was clearly agitated..he spewed conspiracy theories, referred to his massive personal debt as nothing more than peanut change, denied knowledge of a radical fringe group but insisted they were anti-pedophilia...and yet, all predicable and boring...

[ashredux]

4. The Trump campaign, a clown car full of Baghdad Bobs

[sop]

6. Trump's schtick is getting old, his long con isn't working, the rubes are growing restless.

We're watching the curtain being slowly pulled back. Only Trump's most slavish followers are still buying his bullshit.

[wnylib]

7. He defeated Savannah Guthrie?

Who knew she was running? Must be 3rd party candidate, on the "Media ticket."

[Solomon]

21. He beat her like nobody has ever seen before.

[sop]

38. I hear some people came up to Trump and told him, "Sir, you really kcked the fake media's ass!"

[durablend]

8. Hmm, didn't see her on the ballot

[magicarpet]

9. On the male to female battle,... trDumpie won.

trDumpie just likes to beat up women,... it enhances his masculine bonafides,... so his thinking goes.

[SheltieLover]

10. Everything is a fight with repukes

[klook]

12. Not the Onion. (nt)

[vlyons]

13. That's right -- Turn her into an enemy

Make her wrong, so he can make himself feel right. He's such an asshole.

[thesquanderer]

14. Trump won, in the resepct that his real goal was to reduce the # of people watching Biden.

I assume he succeeded at that.

[murielm99]

17. Did he succeed?

I have not seen the ratings. We watched Biden.

[thesquanderer]

19. Ratings won't answer that question. But certainly SOME people watching Trump...

...would have watched the Biden town hall if not for the simultaneous Trump town hall.

[duforsure]

15. Trump desperately trying to project the opposite of the truth

That's what a con man does. That's also exposes he knows it by posting this.

[Mr. Ected]

16. Yes, of course he did, because to a child a question is an attack when you have no answers

I bet he defeated his teachers in school, too.

[ananda]

18. Insanity definitely rules in this country!

Isn't that precious?

[olegramps]

20. I hope people are damn tired of his bombastic screaming. He is pathetic.

He is unable to speak in a calm moderate manner and is only projecting his incompetence by attempting to bully his way through. Of course it will continue to impress people low information voters. It really is sad to see so many of our fellow citizens being so easily misled or having their prejudices catered to and so easily exploited by a charlatan. He attempted to impress people that he was a master astute businessman when in reality he was is an abject failure. What I really suspect and fear that he was so desperate for financial assistance that he sold out to our enemies who knew that he could be bought and compromised. It it the most logical explanation for his support of bloody tyrants.

[COL Mustard]

22. That Sounds Like What I'd Expect a North Korean

Presser to say about Kim Jong Un!!! So sycophantic.

[DinahMoeHum]

23. Missed opportunity for Guthrie to work with George Stephanopoulos (ABC)

The 2 of them would've played tag-team with Trump.

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/16/trumps-town-hall-stunt-backfires-nbcs-savannah-guthrie-gives-him-the-grilling-voters-wouldnt/

(snip)

Guthrie's past experience working with disgraced "Today" show host Matt Lauer may have prepared her well for managing a most unruly Trump. More than merely moderating questions from would-be voters in the audience, Guthrie was quick to offer relevant follow-ups and fact checks. She was often able to pin down the president's familiar pattern of interrupting the preamble to a question, talking about whatever he wants, pretending the interviewer is interrupting him when she tries to finish, then moving on to the next question. She was prepared and pointed, delivering the grilling. . .many anti-Trump voters found reassuring.

With no other reporter to go to, Trump struggled to dodge Guthrie's follow-up questions. In twenty minutes of questioning before turning to the first town hall attendee, Guthrie got Trump to admit that he wasn't tested for COVID before the debate, that he has more than $400 million in foreign debt and that he doesn't read his own retweets. The best part was when she backed him into simultaneously failing to disavow a dangerous and growing conspiracy theory (QAnon) while also disappointing its rabid believers whom he counts as his most fervent supporters.

(snip)

[AirmensMom]

24. Not The Onion?

Wait, aren't we supposed to believe that Joe Biden isn't all there mentally?

I really, really hope we can laugh about this all one day very soon.

[2naSalit]

25. Yikes!

[spanone]

26. So trump is now running against Savanah Guthrie? Got it

[Dustlawyer]

27. Philip Klein is a RW muckraker in Texas.

He files crazy law suits and attacks locals he doesn't like.

[octoberlib]

32. I didn't know that. Somebody retweeted it into my timeline.

[jcgoldie]

28. The Guthrie campaign will be devastated

Could really cost her in the election...

[greenjar_01]

35. ROFL

I LOLed.

[grantcart]

39. She will have to head to Georgia to catch up

[whopis01]

42. I'm definitely not voting for her. n/t

[lpbk2713]

29. That's predictable. It's the Roy Cohn / Norman Vicent Peale response.

Anyone watch Frontline on PBS last night? Trump knows he was beaten but he
goes on the offensive instinctively no matter how ridiculous it makes him appear.

[imanamerican63]

31. He was "under levered" by her!

He can’t stand a woman who is strong and will stand up to

[gratuitous]

33. "I did SO win!"

Mewled Trump with his pants around his ankles and an atomic wedgie while Guthrie counted his lunch money before tucking it in her purse.

[dalton99a]

34. Yep, tremendous victory

[Wounded Bear]

36. That might be sarcasm, but I'm not quite sure...

(It's getting harder and harder to tell these days )

[marmar]

37. A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Lose

[grantcart]

40. Can't lose what you never had

[Squinch]

41. Now she'll never win the 2020 presidential election.

What a maroon.