A new report confirms that Donald Trump was too lazy to seriously practice for the debate

[babylonsister]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/28/13089718/donald-trump-lost-debate


A new report confirms that Donald Trump was too lazy to seriously practice for the debate
Updated by Andrew Prokop @awprokop Sep 28, 2016, 10:40a


Why was Donald Trump so frequently unfocused and rambling during the first general election debate? According to a new report from the New York Times’s Patrick Healey, Ashley Parker, and Maggie Haberman based on campaign sources, it’s basically because he wasn’t really into practicing.

The Times reports that Trump really, really didn’t like traditional debate prep — the format where you stand up at a podium and, you know, practice debating. So he instead focused “mostly on conversations and discussions with advisers.”

When the campaign did try to plan a more traditional debate prep, the reporters write, “Mr. Trump found it hard to focus during those meetings, according to multiple people briefed on the process who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.”

On one level, this story is a pretty blatant attempt from Trump’s advisers to make sure that Trump, rather than them, gets the blame for a first debate that most now agree went poorly for him.

On another level, the article is a deliberate attempt from those advisers to get Trump’s attention and scare him into shaping up, since we all know how closely he reads his news clippings.

But the big picture here is that Trump has, once again, proven either unable or unwilling to put in the often tedious work that’s necessary both to running a competent campaign and to being a good president.


more...

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/28/13089718/donald-trump-lost-debate

[etherealtruth]

1. Low energy and unintelligent ... but, that was obvious prior to the debate n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. He probably thinks

that, as with everything else, he will just be handed the job.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Palinesque

I don't know if you can fix this when the core product is so rotten

[spiderpig]

4. Just what we need in the Oval Office.

Didn't the country learn anything after 8 years of Shrub?

[Democat]

6. The fact that we had 8 years of Bush instead of 4

Tells you everything you need to know.

But Clinton is fighting for all of us now and she is a smart woman.

[gademocrat7]

5. He is the most unqualified person ever to run for President.

[jberryhill]

7. How could this have been a surprise to anyone?

[uponit7771]

8. Dumbass Donald's IQ is NOT... NOT as high as he thinks it is, he has a lot of money that covers

... for the avg fuck up

[brooklynite]

9. IOW - A campaign source leaked the fact that it wasn't their fault...

[napkinz]

10. K&R

[crazylikafox]

11. Not just lazy. He's incapable of that kind of focus.

That's why I'm not worried that he'll decide to practice & do much better in the next debate. He just won't be able to do it. I figured that out after ready his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz's New Yorker article this past summer. He's got a severe attention deficit problem.

[unitedwethrive]

12. His entire life, everything has just been handed to him, so he never developed a work ethic.

To me, this is a major reason his is not qualified for the job that he seeks.