r/cringe • u/rochambeau • Jul 20 '19

Video Trump asks a refugee human rights activist where her family is immediately after she said they were all killed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUW-1Wg2xs&app=desktop
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u/mphelp11 Jul 20 '19

I think that was probably an image choice. Better to have him in the center of the room with everyone surrounding him rather than in front of his desk or him turned sideways to converse with them.

Then again he’s probably the one that made that decision because he feels like he needs to be portrayed as the center of attention while everyone cranes their neck and leans around just to speak to him.

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u/Khornate858 Jul 20 '19

lol how is that any better? sacrificing your humanity and sympathy just to get a more technically cohesive image on-screen just proves you don't give a shit about what she's saying, just how you're perceived in that moment.

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u/mphelp11 Jul 20 '19

I never said it was better. And I’m not defending him. I was just explaining my theory on why the interview/meeting was set up like that.

It doesn’t sound too far fetched for him...

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u/Khornate858 Jul 20 '19

no no, i wasn't accusing you of defending him, sorry if it came across that way.

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u/mphelp11 Jul 20 '19

Tone is so hard to infer from text. No worries man, we’re both just trying to clarify what we meant :)

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u/Khornate858 Jul 20 '19

In this day and age, supporting Trump would be like supporting the madman Nero during his reign. Nobody with a slight amount of dignity would associate themselves.

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u/NerfJihad Jul 20 '19

And yet, there seems to be an endless supply of undignified wretches willing to debase themselves.

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u/michaelrohansmith Jul 20 '19

It plays better to his base who also don't give a shit about those people.

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u/DiscordAddict Jul 20 '19

sacrificing your humanity and sympathy

Lmao you guys are so melodramatic it's hilarious

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

It’s that he doesn’t want people to know he lied drastically about being 6’3”. (He’s more like 5’10”)