Trump’s Awful Debate Performance

I was expecting bad, not dreadful.

“What a dark event we have just witnessed,” Brian Williams said, as he greeted the post-debate audience with disbelief. “If that isn’t a mess, it’ll do ‘til the mess gets here.”

The debate was bad, and somehow got worse as the night went along.

Everything was just uneasy tonight. Even the sparsely populated arena, which reminded me of Trump’s inauguration, seemed off.

What exactly was the singular low point for Trump? It’s hard to tell, there were so many. Was it when Trump had to be dragged — kicking and screaming — to denounce white supremacy?

Trump’s near-constant interruptions throughout the night grew tiresome. He would be instructed not to interrupt when others were speaking, then had to be reminded five seconds later like a disobedient child. When Trump asked Chris Wallace, the debate’s moderator, to also remind Joe Biden not to interrupt Trump, Wallace responded, “Well frankly you’ve been (interrupting) more, sir.”

The interruptions were so persistent that they had to be part of Trump’s game plan going into the debate. Maybe to exploit Biden’s stuttering problem? I’m not sure. It didn’t work.

Early in the night, perhaps if one squints hard enough, Trump seemed to have a…