America Wasn’t Laughing With Donald Trump at the Debate; We Were Laughing At Him

Trump Had America Laughing, But Not In a Good Way

William Spivey
The Polis
Published in
3 min readSep 11, 2024

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The first and possibly only presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is over, and Trump is probably wishing for a do-over. It wasn’t so much that Kamala destroyed Trump, though she did. Trump was his own worst enemy, unable to keep from taking the bait about the crowd size of his rallies and Haitians eating people’s cats and dogs in Ohio. After nine years of condemning the Affordable Care Act, Trump proved unable to maintain a train of thought and told us that he’d yet to come up with an actual plan to replace it as he’s often promised. MSNBC contributor and former head of the Republican National Committee summed it up.

“He looked small, he looked withered, he looked beaten, but most importantly he looked pissed. And there’s nothing worse than a pissed bigot on a stage with a woman he can’t control.” — Michael Steele

Harris consistently laid out her policy points, ending each turn by mentioning something about Trump’s record that he felt compelled to dispute. Whatever bait she threw out, Trump…

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William Spivey
The Polis

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