My wife's perspective...

[brooklynite]

...Trump, on the advice of Kellyanne Conway, tried to be restrained and "Presidential". If he does the next debate, he'll go for the more aggressive Trump.

[unblock]

1. awesome. cuz he wasn't enough of an *sshole already?

[LeftRant]

6. I know, right?

We've already seen that Trump during the GOP debates. Is he really going to get THAT mouthy?

He has no concept of what plays well and it's astounding that he needs people around him to explain this to him over and over again.

He was so damn awkward when he leaned down and whispered "... WRONG." into the mic while she was speaking. That's the mic that didn't work but which picked up his whisper.

[cilla4progress]

2. One can only hope!

I could see him using this whole national spotlight just to get things off his chest, to exercise his ego.

He's such a loser.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Ain't gonna matter. Hillary is not gonna get beat.

She didn't wilt after 11+ hours of grilling by vindictive GOP lawyer congresspeople re the Benghazi hot mess, so why does anybody still think she'd buckle during a mere 2-hour debate with a plain bully?

[uppityperson]

4. Great! So, did you have fun there? How was it?

[tammywammy]

5. The next debate is a town hall.

Aggressive Trump would be even worse in that setting for his campaign

[OnDoutside]

7. It was the right strategy to go after undecideds, just a

Hopelessly unprepared candidate.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Kellyanne was looking ROUGH tonight

Wonder if her CV is updated

[Foggyhill]

9. Going more aggressively would he'd get an even bigger ass kicking.

Man, I can't believe how bad it would be if he went more crazy than this.

He'd punch himself 10 times in the face for every punch he lands.

[onecaliberal]

10. The next debate is townhall. It's will also be a disaster if he goes aggressive

[vanlassie]

11. So Brooklynite- how was Trumps mic?

[brooklynite]

13. It was notably lower at times, then rose up; I assume they were compensating on the sound board.

[CajunBlazer]

17. I read that the sound engineers were having trouble because Trump was...

...speaking so low at first (trying to be Presidential don't you know) that they were having trouble setting the right sound level. Then he was yelling later after he got excited and lost his cool.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. HUH?? He was restrained tonight? He wasn't an aggressive asshole tonight? Sure he was. smh

[Avalux]

14. Good! That's exactly what we want.

If he even does another debate - there's rumblings he's saying this debate was unfair and he won't do anymore.

[jcgoldie]

15. restrained.. seriously?

Keeping a running dialogue while the other person is speaking and perpetually interrupting is restrained? If a child in school showed that sort of "restraint" they'd be kicked out of class.

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

16. Trump and his people sailing on de-nial

I believe nothing that makes it through their big yappers. They will double his meds before the next debate ... if he shows up.