Real-time seems like a lot to ask in a 9½-minute live address, but CNN was on minutes after the Democratic response to Trump with a fact-check by John King, the channel’s chief national correspondent, and Daniel Dale, Washington bureau correspondent and fact checker for the Toronto Star.
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Trump and his performance were further diminished by other TV methods for dealing with his contradictions, disinformation and lies.Ĭable news executives and producers at MSNBC and CNN have been wrestling at least since the inauguration for ways to fact-check Trump in real time. So, again, why did he try to perform Tuesday in a manner he called phony only a few months earlier? MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” aired a deftly edited montage showing Trump performing Tuesday night in the very mode he had mocked as “presidential” at the rally. He even mocked that style of performance at a rally in March. Trump himself showed an understanding of the difference between his highly effective, free-wheeling TV style at rallies or press gaggles and the stern, scripted mode of the traditional Oval Office address. This perception of Trump as not “big” enough for the Oval Office, as unconscious as it might have been while watching, could be deadly if Trump winds up running for re-election in 2020. He did not have a big enough TV presence to fill that media and memory space where some of us had come to see and hear John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford or Barack Obama talk to us about real crises, as opposed to what many believe is a phony, racist one ginned up for political reasons. As I wrote in my Tuesday night review, instead of Trump appropriating some of the grandeur and power of the Oval Office, the setting diminished him. He looked to be slumping down in his seat away from the camera instead of sitting higher in his chair and leaning toward it.
Trump, who is a rather large man, looked small on the screen.
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