Cheers everyone!
Grab your popcorn, one and all, because today is the big day. I thought I'd change things up a little bit and write an article, sort of like live-tweeting.
So here I am, sitting in my sweatpants on a comfy chair, popcorn on the table beside me and a computer on my lap. Are you ready? I am.
Let's go.
Before the content of the debate even starts, I would like to comment on the outfit color choices of our candidates tonight. Trump is wearing a bright blue tie and Hillary is rocking (and slaying) a red power suit dyed with the blood of her enemies. Probably. Did they plan this with each other? Couldn't have rightly been a coincidence.
First topic: Jobs.
Hillary makes a great point about creating jobs for Americans and building the economy and the job market up from the middle class. Trump insists that the money should keep going to the already-wealthy upper class because they supposedly create all the jobs and do all the work, leaving the middle class to do...nothing? And this will help to even out...Yeah I don't get it either.
Trump also insists that American jobs are being stolen from us by Mexico, "leaving us" as if they were suddenly growing legs and walking out on their own.
It should be noted that Trump has sniffled at least 20 times in the last minute. #trumpsniffle
Hillary then mentions climate change, saying that we can figure out a solution to this by getting the majority of our daily energy from solar panels, to which Trump retorts that the U.S. tried that and it put us in further debt.
Then, they mention Reagan's Trickle Down Policy. Hillary makes a nice play on words, calling Trump's take on it "Trump-ed Up, Trickle Down" Economics. Cute.
At this point, Trump has lost his composure altogether. It was nice while it lasted.
Ooh! The moderator just mentioned that Trump hasn't released his tax returns, and Trump claimed that once Hillary released the emails, he would release his tax returns. We all know neither of these things are going to happen, so...
I'm sorry, did Trump just say that it was smart not to pay his taxes? That U.S. citizens should not pay their taxes? What a great leader of our country he would make! Truly.
I'm pretty sure the topic has already switched by this point, and I honestly can't keep track anymore because the candidates keep doing so on their own, so I'm just gonna stop categorizing.
Trump called America a third-world country simply because our airports were not in good condition. Maybe if you were paying your federal taxes, you would see improvements. :)
They have now moved onto the topic of racism, prompted by Moderator Lester Holt, and Clinton was asked if she thought police officers were implicitly biased against African Americans. She responded, saying that she thought everyone was a little biased.
Real quotes from the debate that probably summed up the whole thing: Clinton says “I have a feeling that by the end of this evening, I’m going to be blamed for everything that’s ever happened.” Mr. Trump replied, “Why not?” (Lester Holt reminds Trump not to interrupt Clinton during her 2 minutes.)
The rest of the debate followed as thus: Hillary making fair points and Trump calling her a liar and Hillary saying no and Lester Holt trying to keep them civil and Trump acting like a toddler who isn't getting his way and Hillary seeming a little too pleased with herself and Holt really getting frustrated and Hillary mic-dropping @ Trump left and right and Trump just being a rude debater and a mean person in general.
My opinion? Hillary won by a landslide.
It should be noted that my mother and I were also playing Debate Bingo that she found on the interwebs somewhere, and we filled out both of our whole cards within the first half-hour. See, kids? Politcs is fun!
Anywho, I hope you liked this new form of article. Comment your favorite moments of the debate, and who YOU think won.
xoxo, Emma Sophie
