Analysis: Trump not only prioritized salesmanship over policy, but he spent decades as a salesman and zero minutes considering policy before throwing his hat into ring to serve as president. And then, because he was good at sales, he got elected president.
This was not an unqualified boon to Trump, certainly. Americans very quickly formed strong opinions about him, often sharply negative ones . But it did mean the injection of a great deal of toxic nonsense into the public discourse.
The safe assumption, then, is that this “town hall” will unfold as most do: with Trump taking questions from Collins and the audience, and his answers carried live to the viewing public. And if that is the case, it is safe to assume that the event will fall into the same category as so much of the pre-2016 coverage: providing a forum for salesman Trump to misinform and mislead viewers to make himself as palatable as possible. In other words, it will not inform CNN’s audience. Quite the opposite.
So what’s the value? It’s good to get Trump on-record on issues, particularly from a news outlet such as CNN that is going to be less credulous and obsequious than. But in this format, that seems less likely. Trump is already well into the habit of saying the same things over and over in interviews; given predictable jumping-off points from average people, he’ll have lots of opportunity to continue to do so.
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