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Donald Trump loves an audience.
But during his first debate with Hillary Clinton, he didn’t have one that could audibly respond to what he was saying — and the strain of trying to play to a mostly silent room quickly set him spinning.
“Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis,” Clinton said early in the night, as the candidates dove into their plans for encouraging financial prosperity. “He said back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’ Well, it did collapse.”
Trump, leaning down to his microphone, didn’t wait for his turn to defend himself: “That's called business, by the way.”
During the Republican primary debates, this self-promoting interruption likely would have earned some amused claps.
For the first presidential debate, during which the audience was forbidden from reacting, it died on the vine — and so, too, did many of the unscripted moments Trump tried throughout the night, the kinds of moments he has relied on throughout this campaign to keep the spotlight.
Trump loves a loud, applauding audience
Throughout an increasingly bizarre election, Trump’s affection for validation has been one of the few constants — and a predictable one at that.
After all, Trump’s blustering public persona was formed in the school of reality television. After investing his time, energy, and money into the bombastic parade that is the Miss Universe pageant, Trump made himself a star on The Apprentice, a show that claimed to celebrate sharp business acumen but mostly just celebrated the guy sitting across the boardroom table, chopping down potential employees, one by one.
And as we’ve seen frequently, Trump’s rise to become the Republican nominee for president of the United States is almost entirely thanks to his ability to keep the spotlight squarely on himself, no matter the subject, no matter who’s talking, no matter if he has anything of significance to say.
The Republican debates started with a dozen candidates dismissing the idea that Trump could be a contender — but they ended with a handful scrambling to throw insults back in Trump’s face as the crowd cheered him on with wild applause.
My colleague Libby Nelson performed an exhaustive study of Trump’s winning techniques throughout those Republican primary debates, and it should surprise no one that they’re all textbook reality show staples.
Trump speaks in catchy slogans. He deflects hard questions to tell stories that make him look good, no matter how relevant. He baits opponents into taking the low road, then takes the opportunity to slam them into the dirt. He makes winking references to behind-the-scenes preparations, to give people at home the feeling that he’s being realer than anyone else onscreen.
When all else fails, Trump talks until someone succeeds in cutting him off, exhausted, preferring to give up on getting an answer to the question they asked Trump, rather than keep listening to him hedge around the point.
Basically, every single trick Donald Trump used to win the Republican primary debates is a trick any Real Housewife worth her salt knows inside and out.
But on September 26, Trump had a significantly different task from any he’s had to tackle throughout his campaign: He had to play to a room that wasn’t allowed to applaud.
Trump slowly lost his way as the night went on without applause
To be sure, it’s not as if this rule entirely mattered, much to moderator Lester Holt’s frustration. A few cheers still slipped through the cracks, notably when Trump insisted that he’d release his tax returns once Clinton released her deleted emails (and the IRS was done auditing him). But for the most part, the audience was silent as requested, with only the occasional snickers cropping up throughout the debate.
Trump’s demeanor was immediately different once he had to face this new set of less-than-friendly circumstances. He’s used to commanding rooms that openly embrace his bluster, from the Republican primary debates to the halls he’s filled across the country — and whose audiences he’s curated by making sure protesters get kicked out.
But in the first presidential debate against Clinton, Trump had very little energy to work with from the audience. While he stuck to the same set of dependable lines in the debate’s opening section on the economy — most particularly lines about jobs leaving the country and the ongoing financial inequality in Michigan and Ohio — he quickly veered off during Clinton’s responses to interrupt her in sporadic jabs:
“Wrong.”
“Lie.”
“Wrong.”
“Why not?”
In front of an audience that could respond, these asides might have gotten bigger responses. But standing in front of people who (mostly) honored the request to remain quiet, Trump’s go-to strategies didn’t work. He’d spit them out, and they’d hang there, waiting for a response, before fading into the ether.
Trump eventually tried to compensate for the lack of reaction with more aggressive interruptions, and, yes, a couple of those interruptions finally got traction toward the very end, as the audience lost patience with the rule and cheered. Many times, though, an attack from Clinton would send Trump into overcompensation, like when he responded to the accusation that he hadn’t paid an architect for one of his golf clubhouses with, “Maybe he didn’t do a good job.”
For a showman like Trump, an audience that can’t applaud is a nightmare scenario. His campaign relies on giant statements, pointed jokes, and conspiratorial winking. None of these things work without some kind of response, and Trump had none of that as he fought off Clinton’s exhaustive fact-checking.
Even if the audience wasn’t entirely indifferent to him — and it wasn’t, judging by the eventual cheers at the end once people tired of the rule — that’s the impression silence gives. A veteran politician like Clinton, if nothing else, will know a silent audience isn’t always one that’s rejecting what you’re saying. Trump seemed more easily rattled.
If there’s one thing Trump’s never had to deal with on this campaign before, it’s indifference. Watching him try to push past the silence during this first presidential debate was like watching an improv comedian run through all his usual tricks and panic when none of them landed. Without the instant gratification of audible approval, he was awkward, stilted, and unsure of exactly where to interject.
He wasn’t, in other words, the Trump who won the Republican nomination — and if he can’t figure out how to exist outside the context of a wildly approving audience from now on, he might not be the one to win the presidential election, either.
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無論希婆，川普當總統，美國仍傲然屹立於世
2016-10-12 07:17:08
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無論希婆還是川普當總統，美國仍傲然屹立！
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今年是美國大選年，兩個候選人都先天不足，六十八歲的希婆是個老牌政客，出生貧寒，愛財如命，險皮比城牆還厚蒼蠅叮在臉上都感覺不到。七十歲的川普更不簡單，開賭場“妓院”出生，六十歲還三進洞房娶外國模特結婚生子，七十歲自掏腰包玩票競選總統節節獲勝。這場競選讓全世界人民大開眼界，天朝上下議論紛紛。
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孔子曰民可始知之，不可始由之。其實美國社會製度的優越性就是建築在孔夫子千年前的智慧上的。據報導美國有百分之七十的民眾甚至不知道三權分立指的是什麽。美國總統收入底，從來就是二流人才熱衷的職業，布什總統在大學是C學生，奧巴馬，候塞因高中畢業進的是社區學院，克林頓流氓成性，把白宮當成了春宮。但是這一切並沒有阻止他們成為自由世界的偉大領袖。因為美國總統招聘書上的條件隻有兩條：年紀三十，出生於美國本土。
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如此底的招聘條件，那麽選民就竟在選什麽呢？其實大家都是跟著感覺走，自己認為誰最愛國，最民粹，最能維護美國利益就選誰。
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一般來說，從美國的長遠利益看，選保守的共和黨入主白宮比較靠譜，從眼前利益講，選擇自由的民主黨比較實際。
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美國的富強不是靠明君總統。美國擁有世界上最豐富的自然資源，但是又不靠這些資源至富，美國人靠創新，一個iPhone ，創造的財富無數。美國的富強靠的是槍杆子。美國的軍費開支幾乎是全世界其他國家的總和。任何人隻要敢於侵犯美國的利益幾乎是死無葬身之地。
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相比之下，中國人把希望寄托在明君身上，因此緬大王敢開槍開炮屠殺果敢中國人，韓國明令炮擊中國漁船，印度在中國藏南豎起導彈，中國台彭金馬太平島的蔡小姐公開號召力抗中國，雙十慶典請了近三百多曰本鬼子，沒有一個中國人。還有幾個中國人記得中國最後一道聖旨：總期人民安諸，海內乂安，仍合滿，漢，蒙，回，藏五族完全領士為一大中華民國。
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聖旨到，習大大，蔡小姐統統跪下！
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jqz88 發表評論於 2016-10-15 13:43:46
寫文章這人是翻牆過來的吧。奧巴馬高中畢業進入哥倫比亞大學，啥時候哥倫比亞大學成了社區學院？這麽簡單的事都不查資料開口胡說其餘的就不值一駁了。
nativew 發表評論於 2016-10-15 12:19:48
憂心美國選總統，又想著中國要如何如何。操碎了然並卵的心。
workforwal 發表評論於 2016-10-15 11:06:52
民可使知之，不可使由之？
lwei 發表評論於 2016-10-15 09:00:09
Your dream. If Hillary is elected, America is over. It will become third world country
古龍 發表評論於 2016-10-15 08:20:12
老哥，咱先查查孔子那句老話到底是怎麽說的行嗎？
workforwal 發表評論於 2016-10-15 07:49:30
川普各方麵比紅二代布什強，比希婆更有本事。川普落選，美國就一路狂奔直達歐洲社會主義社會了。
furbydvs 發表評論於 2016-10-15 07:34:48
搞不懂美國是怎麽回事就不要亂琢磨了..................搏眼球的水平亟待提高呀.
誠信 發表評論於 2016-10-15 07:05:40
Impossible! 如果川普當總統，美國不可能仍傲然屹立！
Trump is totally unqualified, from all aspects. He proposes the problems that concern me, but offers terrible solutions, either unrealistic or even dangerous, that can only make the problems much worse. I do not want the whole world to deride us for electing an idiot president again, one even far worse than George W Bush. Especially, I do not want to watch the country and the world fall and recede. If elected, his severe incompetence certainly would cause governmental chaos, economic recession, racial confrontation, alliance departure and national vulnerability to terrorism. In short, he would dramatically debilitate USA.
Trump所有方麵都完全不勝任。他提出了很多我關心的問題，但給出的解決方法卻是很糟糕的，或者根本不可行或者是危險有害的，隻能使得問題更嚴重和惡化。在總統大選的重大關頭，他竟然沒有能力統一和領導自己的共和黨，黨內同僚近一半人公開反對他，他如何能統一領導整個國家前進？ 我不想讓世界人民再一次嘲笑我們美國又選了一個傻子做總統，一個比小布什在各個方麵還要差勁得多的家夥。我更不想眼睜睜看著美國和世界衰落和衰退。 如果當選， Trump的嚴重不稱職一定會導致聯邦政府癱瘓，無法正常運轉，經濟蕭條，種族對抗加劇，盟友分崩離析，無力對抗恐怖襲擊等等災難。總之，他會導致美國嚴重衰弱。這就是為什麽有那麽多美國的有識之士，包括大量共和黨內的，都站出來反對Trump的根本原因。
錦西 發表評論於 2016-10-15 03:44:11
首先，中美兩國沒有可比性。其他的，就別說了。還是閱讀少。
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美國四年一次的總統競選PK2016第一場晚會，結束了！
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不愧是春晚級別的，火爆老頭和美豔老太一唱一和，高潮迭起。
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“WRONG，WRONG ，WRONG” 火爆老頭說。
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“I WILL BE THE PRESiDENT of ALL OF THE AMERICAN”老太說，哈哈哈
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其實我想說的是，床鋪先生，火爆大王，口舌可比機關槍，忍不住，急慌慌，不知道是策略還是真不懂，基本不正麵回答問題，逮住喜了哩一個勁的問‘’三十年你幹啥了？‘’，不停的稱呼她過去官銜，嘲諷之意甚濃。
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他一直在拿中國說事，要和中國清算清算的態度暴露無疑，不過很多華人支持他，說他不會對中國強硬，所以選他，今天他說的話，是不是對華很friendly?
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他堅持擁槍，甚至呼籲都帶槍參加他的共和黨大會，但卻說槍案頻頻是禁槍的錯，美國還沒有禁槍吧？沒有實施禁槍而頻頻槍案，誰的錯？有意思。
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喜了哩的表現咱不說了，這段時間網上已經快把她的底褲揭開了，甚至說凡是知道她底細的都被她和諧了，十足的中國上世紀二三十年代上海灘十三太保形象。
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值得注意的是她居然為電郵門道歉了，政策主張條理清晰，不喝水，不咳嗽，不搖頭，不反白眼，不暈不摔，女強老太太一枚（老太太就是女的，可是“女強人”太寬泛了）！
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不少人說，裝的都是裝的！這也很有意思樣子。
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還是有文章說的好：咱們不看這個，各人有各人的看法，但是這場辯論創造許多曆史第一：美國史上最老候選人、第一次男女候選人、政界最老油條和最生瓜蛋子、收視率創造太陽係記錄等等。這麽說，凡是看了這場二人轉春晚的人們，實在是幸運的可以，你也是最偉大收視率的創造者之一啊。
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敬請期待第二場，第三場晚會的到來，精彩的在後麵呢！