After watching the Presidential Debate and the fiasco it became, I would like to tell President Trump the following.
The debates are clearly stacked against you. No matter what, the moderators are not going to be fair, because let us be honest, they are not moderators but activists.
I would like to suggest a different approach, a different alternative to the debates.
I like to call it “A Chat with the American People”. On the night of the debates, President Trump and the First Lady should address the nation for 90 minutes. Talk to us about his accomplishments and what is next on a second term. Meanwhile, Joe Biden can spend those 90 minutes with his activist moderators, with I would predict an exceptionally low audience.
The networks will be forced to choose which one to cover. A boring low energy one-man debate or a national chat by the President of the United States delineating the future of the country?
As the sitting president, President Trump’s accomplishments and failures are public information. He has nothing to prove, but everything to gain by talking straight to the American people. Something he will not be able to do in a debate stage while getting peppered with ridiculous non sensical questions by an activist moderator and a Democrat presidential candidate who has not accomplished a thing during his 47-year career as a public servant.
I think the debates are a waste of time because they are not fair, they are left leaning, and one sided. Chris Wallace was an embarrassment and he was the reason the debate was a total failure. He can blame President Trump until his face turns purple, but the fact remains Wallace made himself the focus by answering the questions when Biden could not come up with a coherent answer.
He denied President Trump the opportunity to respond and allowed Biden to call the President of the United States a “clown” on national television. He allowed Biden to tell the President to “shut up”. Chris Wallace was not moderating; he was a conspirator.
For the second debate we will have Steve Scully from C-SPAN and former Joe Biden intern. Really? Do you think he will be fair to the president? I think not.
The third debate will be moderated by Kristen Welker, White House correspondent and NBC News anchor. Have you seen those White House press conferences? Enough said!
The bottom line is President Trump will not get a fair opportunity to send his message out during these debates and his only viable alternative is to take his message straight to the American people.
How better to accomplish this than by having a nice “Fireside Chat” with the American people from the people’s house.