The problem was not Trump’s ignorance about the topic - that is to be expected, and he should have just dealt with it directly. “This is an area I am studying right now, but I can assure you that my administration will find and hire the best minds in the country to develop a strategy for dealing with these groups.” That’s really all he had to say.
The problem was, as usual, his thin skin. He had to complain about it being a “gotcha” question. Sorry, but with that area being one of the greatest threats to our country, I think finding out what he knows, what he thinks and how he intends to get up to speed on the topic is a very legitimate endeavor.
Trump - stop complaining about the questions. If you don’t know the answer, tell us, and tell us what you are going to do to get better informed. If you do know the answer, give us more than general platitudes about what you would do about it.
That are being one of the greatest threats to our country being the same area that our senate voted 99-1 to make available to them nuclear warheads on ICBM’s?
That same area?
It actually was smarmy and ludicrous.
Questions like that don’t serve the electorate and does nothing to tell us what the candidate thinks or his philosophy and approach to the problem will be.
The problem was not Trump’s ignorance about the topic - that is to be expected, and he should have just dealt with it directly. “This is an area I am studying right now, but I can assure you that my administration will find and hire the best minds in the country to develop a strategy for dealing with these groups.” That’s really all he had to say.
The problem was, as usual, his thin skin. He had to complain about it being a “gotcha” question. Sorry, but with that area being one of the greatest threats to our country, I think finding out what he knows, what he thinks and how he intends to get up to speed on the topic is a very legitimate endeavor.
Trump - stop complaining about the questions. If you don’t know the answer, tell us, and tell us what you are going to do to get better informed. If you do know the answer, give us more than general platitudes about what you would do about it.
It’s not thin skin. It’s Trump calling people out on their real motivation...something cowards don’t do
You say “thin skinned”, I say “combative.” I’m sure the media and the GOPe were prefer Trump to roll over.
I think he pointed to how he felt about the mid east in 2004 when he said invading Iraq was a huge error. Seems he was ahead of the curve on that one.