John Oliver schlägt einen neuen Ansatz zur Befragung von Trump vor
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-suggests-new-approach-to-interviewing-trump/
John Oliver schlägt einen neuen Ansatz zur Befragung von Trump vor
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-suggests-new-approach-to-interviewing-trump/
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John Oliver is always coming up with interesting ideas. I wonder what his new approach is gonna be. Maybe it will actually get Trump to answer some real questions instead of just dodging them.
*“I am genuinely shocked Trump doesn’t drink alcohol, because that is the most drunk at an IHOP conversation I think I’ve ever heard,”* Oliver said after the clip on Trump and the MS-13 tattoo photo bit, and how to really interview him.
“I know you’ve got other questions to get to, but if the president of the United States is trying to tell you that this amateur-hour Photoshop is real, let him go get the picture and make him say it again. Point to that Helvetica-looking M and make the president say, ‘Yes, I believe that artless M that’s weirdly clearer and darker than all the other tattoos is real.'“
“Make him say, ‘I believe that man went to a tattoo parlor and said the skull’s pretty spooky but what I’d really like is a neatly aligned 3 directly on the bone of my knuckle, and can you please make it so that it doesn’t stretch or bend with the natural curves of the human hand, and also make it look like a typewriter did it?’”
For some reason all the press in America are in fear of the funny old man.
Reporter knew that if he proceeded he would made laughing stock of the president even more than he is… when Trumps senior moment pass for a moment he would have melt down on his twitter and the reporter would not be allowed to White House again, cause only boot lickers can do interview with orange dictator….
What reporters would like to do and what their cooperate overlords allow them to do are not always aligned. Million dollar contracts seem to have a greater pull than being the journalists we assume they are.
I would love to hear from a real reporter about the behind-the-scenes pressure brought to bear on them that prevents them from being comfortable being real reporters. For example – does their boss tell them – if you lose your White House credentials you have lost your job? What kind of things are really being said?
The big issue is that they’re trained to act a certain way in interviews. They spend decades in their careers learning how to approach subjects and ask questions, and a big part of that is to never directly call someone you are interviewing a liar. Because they want to hit all the topics they have on a list, so they have enough material to cut the segments into nice little pieces and sell it in an easy-to-consume package.
Usually, the people lying are willing to just nod when the interviewer says, „that’s not the case, according to what we’ve seen, but let’s move on.“ Trump can’t though. Because he’s mentally ill. He sees no material difference between what is true and what is a lie, so he gets mad when you say, „hey that’s not true, but let’s just move on.“ He needs to „win“ by getting you to admit his lie is just as valid as the truth. Anything less than agreeing with him is an attack in his mind and he has to fight.
I think that the approach to interviewing Trump is to just make him feel more safe to say crazy things. Like, if you said “I mean, clearly the people elected you to lead them so you don’t really have to follow the constitution, right? It’s just an old piece of paper.”, or “A lot of people are saying that you should install yourself as leader for life. When do you think you’re going to be able to do that?”, or “Very smart people have said that you should be able to murder and jail your opponents. How will you go about that process?”.
The beauty of propaganda (or tragedy, depending on your perspective) is that the Trump cult will simply dismiss all of the facts because they came from an unapproved source: John Oliver. It’s a disinformation bubble that can’t be broken from the outside. By his own admission, Trump could murder someone in front of millions of witnesses and they would dismiss their lying eyes. It’s essentially the grandest gas-lighting scheme every concocted. For several decades conservatives have been conditioned to reject any information that doesn’t come from an approved source, so as long as they can keep the approved sources in line (pay them enough money) the „news“ is whatever they want it to be.
Like actual Journalists, would be good.
Wait, whether DJT understood it or not (most likely not), that „M-S-1-3“ picture was deliberately annotated with overlay „MS13“, right?
I mean it wasn’t even supposed to fool someone that the MS13 was part of the tatoo? It was DJT misunderstanding the picture, but the picture itself made sense (and wasn’t a poor photoshop job)?
He wants people to talk about his outrageous statements so that they won’t focus on his outwardly blatant corruption and bribery schemes. It is working.
Here you go, instead of having to click link, see paywall: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hN3JKZ-Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hN3JKZ-Go)
*Cunk on Trump*.
Do it.
Send in Philomena Cunk to interview him. I first saw that suggestion a few days ago, and now I can’t get it out of my head.
I feel like after watching every interview with Trump I walk away with the exact same critique: ask more follow up questions, and don’t be afraid to ask the “are you an idiot” questions. When he says something obviously incoherent and stupid, don’t just let it hang like it’s a genuine answer. Ask the follow up. When he gave his Harlem/Harvard mix-up answer, ask him how his percentage of the black vote influenced his choice to strip Harvard of their tax exempt status. When he says he wants to take over Greenland, ask him why the US military should be willing to go to war against a NATO Ally. If he answers a question in an idiotic way, ask the follow up that confirms “are you really an idiot?”
I didn’t realize the interviewer was very kindly trying to give Trump the out and move on and not hold him to account for lying.
But Trump wouldn’t let him move on. He said several times that Garcia had the actual letters MS13 tattoed on his knuckles. And seemed to be trying to get the interviewer to endorse this lie. The interviewer was willing to entertain Trump’s lie by saying that was just “disputed”.
Like fuck off man. I get you’re trying to be nice to Trump tontru to get him to agree to an interview with you again, but we have more inportant concerns as a country than your fucking journalism career. Don’t let him do this. Tell him what he said is FALSE. Not “disputed”. We have photos of his hands. Not to mention it’s an obvious photoshop. Photoshopnis generous, it looks like MS Paint was used, no pun intended.
I honestly don’t even think whoever made that image even intended to make it look like those letters were actually on his knuckles. It was to imply what the symbols stopd for, and they showed it to Trump and he said “wow he has MS13 on his fingers?” and they were too scared of him to say no…
The interviewer may not have known Trump would fight him about the tattoos. I wouldn’t necessarily expect the interviewer to have that photo on hand. Interviews also have to be somewhat structured so they can be consumable and watchable. People might turn it off if it becomes bogged down in a protracted chaotic debate for several minutes about one particular issue. I mean, sure, this guy could have done better, but it’s probably not easy interviewing Trump.
This episode was fire – and at first I thought he was normalizing it somewhat, by finding jokes to crack, but then I got to the end and it was exactly the rejection and repudiation that the general public feels right now.
I mean, Trump could always go visit the guy and see for himself
When I saw a clip of this interview, I honestly felt like I was watching Sean Hannity trying to help this buffoon. Why is a supposedly neutral journalist helping this man? Which he is by trying to move off of an obvious lie.
Let the liar dig his hole deeper.
*“Hey, here’s an in*a*e lie“*
„Uh, well, that’s nice, let’s move on to the next thing“
*“No, I really wanna‘ say this stupid thing over and over“*
„No, I’m not here to let the public see you do that, I’m here to help you“
*“But, I really, really wanna‘ lie about this obviously fake tattoo“*
„Yes, but that might turn off voters, so I’m going to move past it. Sir.“
I love John Oliver. For a comedy show, I find his reporting (on whatever topic) to be more researched than any other media.
I hate how every interview everyone wants to basically cover every single topic they can and they just get vague answers and move on. I think stick to 1 topic and call him out on his shit.
>“I know you’ve got other questions to get to, but if the president of the United States is trying to tell you that this amateur-hour Photoshop is real, let him go get the picture and make him say it again. Point to that Helvetica-looking M and make the president say, ‘Yes, I believe that artless M that’s weirdly clearer and darker than all the other tattoos is real.’
>“Make him say, ‘I believe that man went to a tattoo parlor and said the skull’s pretty spooky but what I’d really like is a neatly aligned 3 directly on the bone of my knuckle, and can you please make it so that it doesn’t stretch or bend with the natural curves of the human hand, and also make it look like a typewriter did it?’”
>“Because, Terry, sometimes when Trump’s doing his normal racist Bluesky-ing, you do need to cut him off to slow the flow of hatred into the world. But if he wants to tell America that this laughably doctored picture is evidence of a major threat to American safety, you have an obligation to let the man cook.”
The sad thing is that too many people will still agree with him.
At no point in his entire life has he ever been that fit. Lmao such small dick energy from that Whitehouse.
Fuck, send in Nardwuar the Human Serviette and watch his face melt.
Please get Louis theroux to do an interview.
The press is going to have to unite a little bit and follow up on other reporters questions instead of asking their own. It’s possible and why wouldn’t they, it obviously makes sense to just report on ONE thing as we are trying to figure out how to stop all this BS.
I think that Terry Moran had missed an opportunity when he decided not to pin Trump down on the tattoos. He should definitely have ensured that Trump was painted into a corner with his own paints by getting him on video saying unequivocally that the letters and numbers were actually tattoos.
„Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake“, or as Obama put it: „please proceed, governor.“
I think the issue is, whatever Trump says doesn’t matter. It’s all just word soup, so to get caught up in „catching“ him is a useless endeavor. When people will turn is when things really start to go down in the drain, in the economy and elsewhere. I know it will seem satisfying to dunk on him, but he has been dunked on repeatedly, and it doesn’t move the needle.
I agree with not letting him change the damn subject every time, just do a Jeremy Paxman vs Michael Howard every time and pin him to a post.
That said it’s nice to see john has improved his advice giving since he recommended that Trump run for president because it would be hilarious.
John Oliver is 8 weeks form having his citizenship revoked.
Did we need John Oliver to come up with that one? I feel like it’s just common sense and the bare minimum journalistic integrity. But I guess it’s too hard for some
Honestly
How to combat trump
TRUMP..WILL stand his ground till the heat death of the universe if he thinks he’s right.
So what you do is.
Terry should of said..
Right,Okay Mr trump..
Bring him here..in this room..If he has Ms13 tats on his hands..i’ll say sorry live on air about how smart you are.
his ego..would not be able to handle being called out like that..would prob have him on a plane in an hour..
Okay terry..well see who’s right,i’m always right.
You then have a federal judge order marshalls to seize him at the airport..4d chess.
Trump is synonymous with betrayal and even the most softball interviews with zero pushback are seen as attacks with all the unforced errors this moron stumbles into. Journalists need to realize that no amount of subservience or loyalty will ever be rewarded in the end.
Do your job journalists and press our politicians like the Founding Fathers intended or consider yourself complicit in the destruction of our democracy.
Yeah bring back the Barbra Walter’s approach of just calling him a liar to his face
Trump would simply end the interview, and claim the interviewer is paid by the radical left to make him look bad.
America is way past accountability at this stage.
Quiz him. When he says something, ask him a specific question.
„You talked about NATO…. What does NATO stand for?“
„You’re sending people to El Salvador. A lot of people have never heard of this place, where is it exactly?“
The emperor has no clothes.
The industry procedure for interviewing Trump ought to include spending the day prior eating everything that makes you gassy
Please, dear god, can we get Philomena Cunk to interview the president?
never interfere with the enemy while he is in the process of making a mistake.
I bet that by now, Trump team has paid the El Salvador prison to grab him and forcibly tattoo MS13 on his knuckles
That tattoo artist was brilliant at perspective. They made it so the numbers and letters are all perfectly flat, but only when the camera is in that exact place to take the photo. That’s skill!