Trump Rules in effect: The Donald fields softball questions while Hillary gets grilled

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Friday, Feb 26, 2016 02:30 AM CST

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Trump Rules in effect: The Donald fields softball questions while Hillary gets grilled


The GOP's presumptive nominee sits down for an hour with CNN and is asked what he orders at McDonald's. Journalism!
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters

This article originally appeared on Media Matters.

“For now, Trump is generally considered a unicorn — a candidate who gets away with things no one else could.” Washington Post, February 22.

Switching back and forth between MSNBC and CNN last Thursday night as they aired competing, hour-long interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, viewers ran the risk of whiplash. The threat lingered not just because Clinton and Trump were on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but because the tone and tenor of the two events seemed dramatically different.

Here were some of the questions posed to Clinton from the MSNBC event’s co-moderators, NBC’s Chuck Todd and Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart:

“What would you do to make possible that the [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival] students become permanent residents?”
“Would you ever imagine raising the retirement age in the next 10 years?”
“Do you foresee a time when the federal government would be able to include the undocumented [workers] in federal grants for education?”
“Should people start paying Social Security taxes on income over $120,000?”
“Is a presidential visit [to Cuba] a step too far? Would a President Clinton be going this quickly?”

By contrast, here were some of the questions posed to Trump from the CNN moderator, Anderson Cooper:

“What do you eat when you roll up at a McDonald’s, what does – what does Donald Trump order?”
“What’s your favorite kind of music?”
“How many hours a night do you sleep?”
“What kind of a parent are you?”
“What is one thing you wish you didn’t do?”

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1. Trump goes to McDonald's? Jesus Fucking Christ, hold the presses...

Journalism is toast...