Donald Trump’s debate performance was far worse than even his inner circle anticipated.

While Donald Trump’s team is publicly pushing a postdebate victory lap, many in his camp were privately disappointed in the Republican candidate’s performance on Tuesday.

CNN’s Kaitlan CollinsĀ reportedĀ Wednesday night that several Trump insiders were ā€œstunnedā€ by his poor performance and byĀ just how easily he fellĀ for all of Kamala Harris’sĀ attempts to provoke him.

ā€œI’m told that as soon as Donald Trump exited that debate stage, he immediately began quizzing those waiting in his viewing room about how the last 90 minutes had gone,ā€ said Collins. ā€œWhile several people praised him to his face, telling him they did a great job, that’s not what a lot of them are saying privately today.

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Apparently, all that practice with members of his team, such as former Hawaii RepresentativeĀ Tulsi Gabbard, had ultimately amounted to very little when it came time to debate.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m sure he doesn’t even care that people are mocking him about it, the fact that everybody is talking about ā€œconcepts of a planā€ and ā€œthey’re eating the catsā€ is still a victory in his mind. Good attention or bad attention doesn’t matter, attention for the sake of attention is the only thing he cares about. Nobody is really talking about anything specific Harris said or did, she didn’t really have any really breakout moments that I can recall after having watched it, it was just Trump being a jackass and saying dumb shit.