Say what you want about it (and I'm gonna!) at last count it had over 156M views. Total upstage, winning the war without a shot fired. The interview is 46:12 and the first 11.5 minutes is nothing but Trump making silly names and commentary about everyone he can think of. There are no hard questions, there's no policy, its just a bunch of hot air. A total waste of time. At the 11:30 mark, Trump touches on the Russian/Ukrainian war, but its just empty rhetoric that ends with a "If I were President it would never have started". Ok, but...how would you have prevented it? How would you stop it? Nothing. No question, no answer. That lasts for 30 seconds more and then he attacks Kamala and her speech and then goes after Gavin Newsom, whom he takes a few minor shots on about his record and then back to Biden's fragility, etc. And we're now at 15:00. Then about North Korea and how Trump "got along with him and got him to behave". And how it would have been nuclear war if Hillary had won when she raced. Then he attacks Chris Wallace on the debate stage and how he didn't let Trump ask the question about the mayor of Moscow and tried to interfere with it during his debate with Biden. And now we're at 17:47, and still zero substance or policy. Tucker, at this point, asks if he as a preference who runs against him from the Democrats. Trump goes around slamming Newsom and Biden, etc. So we spend the next two minutes about the many indictments failing and how Trump says the American people know its political motivated (and we do, no disagreement here) but then goes back to how Biden is corrupt and incompetent, etc. and bought and paid for by China. Then a whole bunch of issues about military installations in Cuba of all places...and we spend another minute talking about the building of the Panama Canal where Trump says we lost 35k people (25k people actually died, but no one is going to know that, nor does it have anything to do with why we should be interviewing Trump). And how we should never have given the canal away after building it. And now we're up to 24:30 minutes talking about the Panama Canal before we get back to Biden not being able to put together two sentences. Again. At 25:30 he finally gets into talking about issues with voting and some specifics, and then talks about overall Democratic policy. And we go for a few minutes before he spends 90 seconds talking about water faucet limiters and Whirlpool washers where Korean washing machines were being "dumped" in America and some other nonsense that is almost impossible to follow. Tucker is staring on politely as if he's trying to figure out where this is going. He's (Trump) trying to go off about the EPA and how it has water restrictions that don't work. I get it, and fine, its something to call out, but there are just soooo many things of import to talk about. What the hell is this? 31:00 - finally a good question. "If you get elected again, how do you keep the agencies under control? How do you keep the FBI, CIA, etc specifically under control?" And he goes off about firing Comey and some nonsense about Hillary and the odds of the election. What? And then we spend the next few minutes on the Russian disinformation scandal. Sigh. 33:55, Tucker redirects and asks "what about Mike Pence"? And then we're back to voter fraud and how Pence had the right to send votes back to the legislature. And how he was disappointed in Pence. Then the next seven minutes about how the election should have been more formally challenged and blah blah blah...give it a rest already. Its done. What are you going to do if elected? At 42:00 he goes after McConnell. At 42:49, with less than 4 minutes to go, Tucker asks "last question, if you're elected again, what's your number one priority?" Finally, we'll get something, right? "The border" he states. So his number one priority is the border. At least he didn't tell us he'd build a wall. Ok, I can get behind solving the border crisis. And the last few minutes are all about where people are coming in from, how countries are emptying our their mental institutions or something and how Trump built almost 500 miles of border wall. And it ends about Jan 6 and Tucker's question about whether we're moving towards civil war. That was it. What a colossal waste of time to watch. Why couldn't get speak specifically about policy? Why can't we ever? Next, I'm going to try to go watch a replay of the debate to see what a ridiculously bad showing that was.
Trump is coasting, the elderly need their quiet time. He warned the others, if they win the deep state will come after them. All we get is deep state puppets, everything is infiltrated and co opted.
I think trump sums up what all politicians feel is the tactic now....simply state your policy to get the masses all simulated but avoid ever having to define how you would actually achieve it. It has worked so well in the social media environment with short clips of "I will bring jobs back to America!" that you don't have to explain how at all. And why did trump go off on the canal..... where less than 6,000 American dies by the way building it (still tragic but nt 23-35k). If he were president he would have kept the canal for what? I swear he thinks every thing in history could have been achieved if he was president haha
This article outlines why the number of claimed video views on Twitter is meaningless. Musk or Tucker can make up any number they want. Musk removed the feature which publicly shows the number of video views. Forcing a video into someone's feed (whether they have any interest or not) and counting this as a "view" is complete nonsense -- but this is how Musk operates. The reality is the actual interaction with Tucker's Trump interview video is pretty low -- the combined likes and reposts is well below a million. Trump’s Interview With Tucker Carlson Has More Than 150 Million ‘Views’ On X— Here’s Why That’s Misleading https://www.forbes.com/sites/alison...llion-views-on-x--heres-why-thats-misleading/
The old media outlet is criticizing the new and better one. How unexpected. They have a point of course but the numbers are still mindblowing. Although quite empty, the interview clearly demonstrated that Trump still has the energy to run for a second term. What a contrast to the current White House Patient!
Because that's what he does. He's a megalomaniac TV personality with ADD. Friggen tell us what you're going to do if you're elected. What policies? What did you learn after the last time? But he can't help himself. And by the way, I hate the idea of having to vote for the guy - but if its him and Biden, I'll have to hold my nose. AGAIN.
Despite Trump being a megalomaniac TV personality (I hate his personality too), he was a great President. So, if it comes to the vote, I will vote for this guy again. It is better than Biden 100%.
I don't argue that he is better than Biden. But a great President? What was great about the guy? About the only thing I can recall that he did well was get three judges appointed - which was a huge victory, and worth the four years all by itself. But what else?