45's interview today with Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports

[Lemon Drop]

https://www.barstoolsports.com/video/269...hite-house

Weirdly entertaining. Rarely hear Trump being honest like this, Portnoy obviously makes him very comfortable.

Starting around 12:00 - Overruling Fauci for the stock market and then he's off to the races...

And regarding his story about getting booed at the Robin Hood dinner with Melania - soon after he announced that he was running - that's a complete lie. He hasn't been to that dinner since 2011.

[mrbigstuff]

this is so strange. Portnoy is a love/hate (or loathe) sort of person in the pop culture world. and especially around here where he got his start.i don't follow him or the site at all, but they have been known to get some scoops. I wonder how this came about.

he is correct about the Ali G thing, I recall thinking the same thing, that Trump was the only person wise to the schtick.

[Speedy]

I guessing you never watch Faux News, especially the Faux and Fiends morning show.

[deckeda]

Watched about 13 or so minutes from your link, having no clue who the interviewer is. On the one hand, it’s seemingly trollish (and the Ali G reference is duly, if not ironically noted ... ) but on the other hand the utter lack of a punchline reveals that it’s just a stream-of-consioisness circle-jerk for two people living in Bizarro World, a perfect manifestation of entitled unaccountability, obsequiousness and frivolousness.

Having since read up a little on Portnoy, while I really don’t know why or how he got an interview, that seems to be point: it doesn’t makes because it’s not supposed to make sense. From both men’s perspective none of it likely matters, anyway.

File Under: nice work if you can get it

[deckeda]

mrbigstuff wrote:
... that Trump was the only person wise to the schtick.

The difference is that everyone else didn’t care at all, and treated it like every other marketing opportunity and interview where nothing they said mattered ... until it DID and by then it was too late.

Trump wants every interview to get proceed on a positive trajectory and rejects all that do not: Baron could not hide his cards he was holding because he revealed his ridiculousness up front and Trump is smarter than the average bear.

[mrbigstuff]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
... that Trump was the only person wise to the schtick.

The difference is that everyone else didn’t care at all, and treated it like every other marketing opportunity and interview where nothing they said mattered ... until it DID and by then it was too late..
Not sure they was the point of Ali G pranking his guests. Watching them as broadcast about 10 years ago, most everything he did was to get the guest to insert foot into mouth.

[deckeda]

mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
[quote=mrbigstuff]
... that Trump was the only person wise to the schtick.

The difference is that everyone else didn’t care at all, and treated it like every other marketing opportunity and interview where nothing they said mattered ... until it DID and by then it was too late..
Not sure they was the point of Ali G pranking his guests. Watching them as broadcast about 10 years ago, most everything he did was to get the guest to insert foot into mouth.
Well, yeah. Getting someone to make a gaffe or come to a dead end logically ... isn’t that a prank? It speaks to intent after all. I’m acknowledging Trump sensed it.

[$tevie]

I had no idea who the guy was when the clips began showing up on Twitter. I watched two and the brown-nosing made me nauseated so that was it for me.