Because, of course, the media won’t. [That standard only applies to Harris; just like all other standards.](https://i.imgur.com/L7YRZLP.jpeg)
yhwhx on
Low energy! Sad!
moderatenerd on
How the table turns
PlentyMacaroon8903 on
Can you imagine the field day Fox would have if Harris had a “town hall” filled with friendlies, giving softball questions that ended abruptly so she could vibe like an insane person? Hell not even Fox, just all the media. It would end the campaign.
Trump’s only hope now is that his rapid mental decline goes unnoticed by most of his base long enough for them to cast a vote in his favor. Good luck with that.
Kamala might be doing interviews but she isn’t attuned to the American people’s desire to shuffle sadly for 40 mins.
ThatGuyFromTheM0vie on
They are hiding him
echoeco on
…he’s planning on stealing the election (not about who gets the most votes he just has to play the candidate role until the bought process challenges our legit votes)…try for ‘huge’ margins and don’t give him a reason for a lawsuit…
inthemix8080 on
I can’t tell if he’s hiding to limit damage or he doesn’t care about convincing voters because he knows the fix is in.
2_Sheds_Jackson on
Yes, but look at how many he has canceled. Way more than Harris ever could. She is such low energy! /s
Embarrassed_Pipe_109 on
I saw charlagmane ask Harris why she always says the same thing as if sticking with policy she supports is a bad thing. It’s mind numbing how much we’ve normalized being idiotic.
BannedAgainDude on
I only watch MSNBC now because those other networks are partisan. They’ll attack Harris and ignore and normalize rapist Trump.
rounder55 on
Trump will get to that very soon. Like two weeks after the election which is when his DJ set ends and infrastructure week begins
FelineGus on
After weeks of Republican criticism about Vice President Harris’s media availability, the tables have turned as the Harris campaign accuses former President Trump of avoiding “mainstream” media interviews over the past month.
Trump spoke with a local ABC affiliate in Nevada on Sept. 14. In the 30 days since, he has mostly spoken with conservative columnists, radio hosts and television hosts, and made appearances on friendly podcasts.
But Trump has largely avoided other news organizations, which the Harris campaign sought to spotlight Monday.
“Today marks one month since Donald Trump sat down with mainstream reporters,” Harris campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement. “He pulled out of 60 Minutes. He’s refusing to debate. And he’s refusing to release his medical records. What’s he hiding?”
The former president has appeared several times in the past month on Fox News, speaking with opinion hosts including Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, Greg Gutfeld and Larry Kudlow, who served as a top economic official in the Trump White House.
He spoke with Fox News reporter Bill Melugin in early October about news of the day, and in September with Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams.
Over the past month, Trump called into Hugh Hewitt’s radio show and spoke with Ben Shapiro, conservative Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen and Breitbart News. Trump also spoke with NewsNation journalist Ali Bradley about immigration and other news of the day in early October.
Trump initially agreed to sit for an interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” as presidential candidates traditionally do. On Oct. 1, six days before the interview would air, CBS News said he’d pulled out. The Trump campaign argued nothing was “ever scheduled or locked in.”
A Trump campaign spokesperson on Monday hit Harris for not holding a press conference since becoming the Democratic nominee and downplayed her recent string of media appearances.
“The fact that she is finally sitting for interviews only demonstrates how desperate her campaign really is,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump has conducted hundreds of interviews across different mediums when he isn’t criss-crossing the country doing multiple events a day and will continue to take questions from voters and the media anytime, anyplace, anywhere.”
Trump is scheduled to sit down this week with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago, and he will participate in a Univision town hall Wednesday. He will also attend a town hall in Georgia hosted by Fox News’s Harris Faulkner.
While Trump has mostly kept to conservative media in recent weeks, Harris has gone on something of an interview spree as she seeks to appeal to more voters in a neck and neck campaign.
Harris last week appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, ABC’s “The View,” Howard Stern’s radio show and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” She sat over the weekend with a pair of outlets geared toward Black Americans, and her campaign announced Monday that she agreed to her first interview of the campaign with Fox News.
Fox anchor Bret Baier will interview Harris on Wednesday during a trip to the battleground of Pennsylvania. Harris campaign aides cited the interview as evidence that only one candidate is willing to face tough questions.
“As of today, it has been **one month** since Trump’s been interviewed by a mainstream media outlet, as he has backed out of 60 Minutes and refuses to debate again,” Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams posted on the social platform X. “Meanwhile Harris is willing to even go on Fox.”
The Harris campaign has in recent days sought to make Trump’s fitness for office and mental sharpness a bigger issue in the upcoming election.
Harris and her team have blasted Trump for backing out of “60 Minutes,” they have repeatedly pressured the former president to take part in another debate and, after releasing her medical records over the weekend, the vice president questioned why Trump would not do the same.
Polls released in recent days showed Trump closing the gap on Harris nationally, and the two candidates remain locked in a razor-close race in the seven battleground states likely to decide the election.
tcoh1s on
Magas main argument is “she doesn’t do interviews!”
So now what’s their spin on this?
Weekly-Ad-7709 on
Why should she ?
Once again the mass media has completely failed us
grimace24 on
This is just proof that the Trump campaign is keeping Trump from having legit interviews. Trump is using the strategy he accused Biden of in 2020. Hiding in his basement. Trump handlers know his cognitive decline is escalating. Keeping him away from journalist that can expose that is their plan.
supersonicvinyl on
he has catatonically swayed to music and pooped his pants in front of an audience. lets be fair
inigos_left_hand on
I’ve heard he’s not smart enough to do a proper interview. Low energy, sad.
SanDiegoDude on
“She hasn’t done anything of substance, we don’t know who she is, what’s her stance? She’s just another Biden” – Republicans a month ago.
Today she’s going on Fox for a primetime interview with Brett Bair. Trump shit his pants and tried to hide it for 40 minutes, then canceled more interviews and will now only sit for quick bro-casts with bootlickers. Dude is a walking ball of hate and dementia. He belongs in a home (or prison) not running the country. I said the same thing about Biden after the debate (sans the prison part of course) and I’m saying the same thing about Trump – Dude is gonna die within the next few years, and leave us PRESIDENT VANCE – now that is fucking scary.
camusonfilm on
That’s the kind of petty I can get behind
punked123 on
Well well well, how the turntables!!
mixmastersang on
He just did the Bloomberg interview yesterday….
danfirst on
Meanwhile, at the gym today I saw CNN in the background and they were talking about how Trump practices the weave while he talks and Harris only does scripted speech.
Sanewashing indeed.
Vegetable-Source6556 on
But… he’s practicing for post election.. DANCING WITH THE STARS!
ba00862 on
This will probably be buried and honestly I recognize I’m asking an impossible question to answer. Just looking for a discussion.
What can we everyday folks do to have media start actually hold everyone accountable to the same level? Slightly related, what can we do to just stop using twitter altogether also?
I understand who owns the big news media corps and that is not a new problem. I’m growing ever more pessimistic because it feels like wanting journalistic integrity (well it feels like most integrity) is a pipe dream at this point. I’m just tired man, it’s exhausting living in the world of disinformation.
Designer_Buy_1650 on
He’s using her playbook. When she had momentum she was smart to not do interviews. Look at what she’s doing now. Trump’s momentum has increased, so he’s not doing interviews. I’m for Kamala, but it’s not a good look.
Intricatetrinkets on
You’d think he’d want to interview with Rolling Stone after he showed his desire to just listen to some music during a rally for 39 minutes /s
the-slit-kicker on
Anyone else feel like trump saw the SNL cold open two weeks ago and thought Kamala actually had a TLC dance break and decided to try and top it?
dn00 on
Those conservatives complaining about Harris not doing press interviews because she was too busy with rallies must feel silly right now. Nah, probably not.
Impromark on
Well, I mean, you see, uh… DANCE BREAK!
grckalck on
Pot, meet kettle.
Ornery-Ticket834 on
He is chicken shit. Why doesn’t he go on MSNBC? She is going on Fox.
1white26golf on
I thought he just did an interview with Bloomberg?
DepletedMitochondria on
Right this looks like an intentional strategy from the Trump campaign to keep him off national TV and let the various local news stations and talk radio people keep piping propaganda into the population without them being reminded that he’s a complete fucking moron.
beatmastapete on
interviews dont count if its just nonsense. dude should just drop out, do us all a big favor. he literallty has nothing to offer anyone. he never did. its all bluster and smoke
nature_half-marathon on
Eh… the Bloomberg interview was a great watch and a win for Harris.
Ilosesoothersmaywin on
He is master at this ‘weave’. He got his degree in underwater basket weaving.
Inner-Quail90 on
At this point what is more interviews or debates are going to accomplish? Election Day is less than 3 weeks away.
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Because, of course, the media won’t. [That standard only applies to Harris; just like all other standards.](https://i.imgur.com/L7YRZLP.jpeg)
Low energy! Sad!
How the table turns
Can you imagine the field day Fox would have if Harris had a “town hall” filled with friendlies, giving softball questions that ended abruptly so she could vibe like an insane person? Hell not even Fox, just all the media. It would end the campaign.
Trump is obviously scared to sit down with a real reporter at this point. His last informal interview was an [unmitigated disaster](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pressed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/), his rallies are continuing to deteriorate into[ incoherent ramblings](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html), and the one and only time he met Harris face to face, he got his ass kicked so hard that he’s been [licking his wounds](https://newrepublic.com/post/186372/fox-news-donald-trump-kamala-harris-debate) ever since.
Trump’s only hope now is that his rapid mental decline goes unnoticed by most of his base long enough for them to cast a vote in his favor. Good luck with that.
>[Donald Trump Dementia Evidence ‘Overwhelming,’ Says Top Psychiatrist](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-dementia-evidence-overwhelming-top-psychiatrist-1881247)
>[Mental health experts sound the alarm on Trump’s potential ‘cognitive decline’ as he’s ‘lost touch with reality”](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mental-health-fears-cognitive-decline-b2625124.html)
Kamala might be doing interviews but she isn’t attuned to the American people’s desire to shuffle sadly for 40 mins.
They are hiding him
…he’s planning on stealing the election (not about who gets the most votes he just has to play the candidate role until the bought process challenges our legit votes)…try for ‘huge’ margins and don’t give him a reason for a lawsuit…
I can’t tell if he’s hiding to limit damage or he doesn’t care about convincing voters because he knows the fix is in.
Yes, but look at how many he has canceled. Way more than Harris ever could. She is such low energy! /s
I saw charlagmane ask Harris why she always says the same thing as if sticking with policy she supports is a bad thing. It’s mind numbing how much we’ve normalized being idiotic.
I only watch MSNBC now because those other networks are partisan. They’ll attack Harris and ignore and normalize rapist Trump.
Trump will get to that very soon. Like two weeks after the election which is when his DJ set ends and infrastructure week begins
After weeks of Republican criticism about Vice President Harris’s media availability, the tables have turned as the Harris campaign accuses former President Trump of avoiding “mainstream” media interviews over the past month.
Trump spoke with a local ABC affiliate in Nevada on Sept. 14. In the 30 days since, he has mostly spoken with conservative columnists, radio hosts and television hosts, and made appearances on friendly podcasts.
But Trump has largely avoided other news organizations, which the Harris campaign sought to spotlight Monday.
“Today marks one month since Donald Trump sat down with mainstream reporters,” Harris campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement. “He pulled out of 60 Minutes. He’s refusing to debate. And he’s refusing to release his medical records. What’s he hiding?”
The former president has appeared several times in the past month on Fox News, speaking with opinion hosts including Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, Greg Gutfeld and Larry Kudlow, who served as a top economic official in the Trump White House.
He spoke with Fox News reporter Bill Melugin in early October about news of the day, and in September with Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams.
Over the past month, Trump called into Hugh Hewitt’s radio show and spoke with Ben Shapiro, conservative Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen and Breitbart News. Trump also spoke with NewsNation journalist Ali Bradley about immigration and other news of the day in early October.
Trump initially agreed to sit for an interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” as presidential candidates traditionally do. On Oct. 1, six days before the interview would air, CBS News said he’d pulled out. The Trump campaign argued nothing was “ever scheduled or locked in.”
A Trump campaign spokesperson on Monday hit Harris for not holding a press conference since becoming the Democratic nominee and downplayed her recent string of media appearances.
“The fact that she is finally sitting for interviews only demonstrates how desperate her campaign really is,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump has conducted hundreds of interviews across different mediums when he isn’t criss-crossing the country doing multiple events a day and will continue to take questions from voters and the media anytime, anyplace, anywhere.”
Trump is scheduled to sit down this week with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago, and he will participate in a Univision town hall Wednesday. He will also attend a town hall in Georgia hosted by Fox News’s Harris Faulkner.
While Trump has mostly kept to conservative media in recent weeks, Harris has gone on something of an interview spree as she seeks to appeal to more voters in a neck and neck campaign.
Harris last week appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, ABC’s “The View,” Howard Stern’s radio show and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” She sat over the weekend with a pair of outlets geared toward Black Americans, and her campaign announced Monday that she agreed to her first interview of the campaign with Fox News.
Fox anchor Bret Baier will interview Harris on Wednesday during a trip to the battleground of Pennsylvania. Harris campaign aides cited the interview as evidence that only one candidate is willing to face tough questions.
“As of today, it has been **one month** since Trump’s been interviewed by a mainstream media outlet, as he has backed out of 60 Minutes and refuses to debate again,” Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams posted on the social platform X. “Meanwhile Harris is willing to even go on Fox.”
The Harris campaign has in recent days sought to make Trump’s fitness for office and mental sharpness a bigger issue in the upcoming election.
Harris and her team have blasted Trump for backing out of “60 Minutes,” they have repeatedly pressured the former president to take part in another debate and, after releasing her medical records over the weekend, the vice president questioned why Trump would not do the same.
Polls released in recent days showed Trump closing the gap on Harris nationally, and the two candidates remain locked in a razor-close race in the seven battleground states likely to decide the election.
Magas main argument is “she doesn’t do interviews!”
So now what’s their spin on this?
Why should she ?
Once again the mass media has completely failed us
This is just proof that the Trump campaign is keeping Trump from having legit interviews. Trump is using the strategy he accused Biden of in 2020. Hiding in his basement. Trump handlers know his cognitive decline is escalating. Keeping him away from journalist that can expose that is their plan.
he has catatonically swayed to music and pooped his pants in front of an audience. lets be fair
I’ve heard he’s not smart enough to do a proper interview. Low energy, sad.
“She hasn’t done anything of substance, we don’t know who she is, what’s her stance? She’s just another Biden” – Republicans a month ago.
Today she’s going on Fox for a primetime interview with Brett Bair. Trump shit his pants and tried to hide it for 40 minutes, then canceled more interviews and will now only sit for quick bro-casts with bootlickers. Dude is a walking ball of hate and dementia. He belongs in a home (or prison) not running the country. I said the same thing about Biden after the debate (sans the prison part of course) and I’m saying the same thing about Trump – Dude is gonna die within the next few years, and leave us PRESIDENT VANCE – now that is fucking scary.
That’s the kind of petty I can get behind
Well well well, how the turntables!!
He just did the Bloomberg interview yesterday….
Meanwhile, at the gym today I saw CNN in the background and they were talking about how Trump practices the weave while he talks and Harris only does scripted speech.
Sanewashing indeed.
But… he’s practicing for post election.. DANCING WITH THE STARS!
This will probably be buried and honestly I recognize I’m asking an impossible question to answer. Just looking for a discussion.
What can we everyday folks do to have media start actually hold everyone accountable to the same level? Slightly related, what can we do to just stop using twitter altogether also?
I understand who owns the big news media corps and that is not a new problem. I’m growing ever more pessimistic because it feels like wanting journalistic integrity (well it feels like most integrity) is a pipe dream at this point. I’m just tired man, it’s exhausting living in the world of disinformation.
He’s using her playbook. When she had momentum she was smart to not do interviews. Look at what she’s doing now. Trump’s momentum has increased, so he’s not doing interviews. I’m for Kamala, but it’s not a good look.
You’d think he’d want to interview with Rolling Stone after he showed his desire to just listen to some music during a rally for 39 minutes /s
Anyone else feel like trump saw the SNL cold open two weeks ago and thought Kamala actually had a TLC dance break and decided to try and top it?
Those conservatives complaining about Harris not doing press interviews because she was too busy with rallies must feel silly right now. Nah, probably not.
Well, I mean, you see, uh… DANCE BREAK!
Pot, meet kettle.
He is chicken shit. Why doesn’t he go on MSNBC? She is going on Fox.
I thought he just did an interview with Bloomberg?
Right this looks like an intentional strategy from the Trump campaign to keep him off national TV and let the various local news stations and talk radio people keep piping propaganda into the population without them being reminded that he’s a complete fucking moron.
interviews dont count if its just nonsense. dude should just drop out, do us all a big favor. he literallty has nothing to offer anyone. he never did. its all bluster and smoke
Eh… the Bloomberg interview was a great watch and a win for Harris.
He is master at this ‘weave’. He got his degree in underwater basket weaving.
At this point what is more interviews or debates are going to accomplish? Election Day is less than 3 weeks away.