The Trump / Clinton presidential debate yesterday didn’t go quite as expected. As we mentioned in our wrap-up, Trump wasn’t in great form, and he let himself get too worked up and too carried away, rambling about his personal and business life in response to pretty basic jabs from Clinton.
One of the big takeaways for anyone watching from home was that Trump was sniffling like a bloody goey fiend for the duration of the debate. This is funny for two reasons:
- His campaign has gotten a lot of mileage out of saying that Clinton has some kind of horrible wasting illness and is there unfit for the presidency, so inhaling mucus directly into a mic doesn’t look good for him.
- Impressions matter in debates! In the first ever presidential debate in 1960, Richard Nixon sweated madly in contrast to Kennedy‘s cooler and more collected demeanour, and many analysts say it decimated his popular support.
Well, don’t worry folks – Trump has an answer for why he had the coke sniffles. They simply did not happen, he claims, despite the fact the sound was clearly beamed to 100 million households.
“I have no allergies. No cold,” Trump told Fox & Friends. “There was no sniffles.”
He continued on Fox. “I had a problem with my mic that didn’t work, I wonder if it was set up on purpose. In the room they couldn’t hear me, not exactly great. I wonder if it was set up that way.”
“I don’t want to believe in conspiracy theories. But it was crackling. To me, it was a bad problem.”
Uh huh.
Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) September 27, 2016
Source: Fox News.
Photo: Getty Images.
