Donald Trump Interrupted Hillary Clinton 51 Times Last Night

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:15 pm

Donald Trump didn’t like Hillary Clinton’s criticism. He interrupted her repeatedly – 51 times – while she interrupted him only 17. “Wrong, wrong, wrong, no, you’re wrong, I did not, I do not,” we heard, again and again.

According to Vox’s calculations, he interrupted Clinton 25 times in the first 26 minutes of the debate.

Yes, Donald Trump interrupts as often than he lies. No small feat.

Watch Trump at work:

Vox provides the telling graphic:

Debating while female, in one graphic. pic.twitter.com/lAhA5adcUe

— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) September 27, 2016

Clinton said “When they go low, we go high,” and that is exactly what she did, artfully ignoring Trump’s attempt to bully her into silence. It is possible that it is the sheer number of interruptions that lead some Trump fanboys and fangirls to say Trump won the debate. He was being “strong,” you see.

However, as Vox’s Ezra Klein tweeted,

So now we're going to see whether a man repeatedly shouting over a woman on national television is good politics

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 27, 2016

You can be Trump did not earn too many votes from women last night, women who are used to being talked down to like this by men. He made men look bad; he made himself look worse.

Donald Trump ranted, he was incoherent; Clinton was cool and collected, and had complete mastery of the facts. Lacking those facts, Trump was reduced to repeatedly interrupting his better-prepared opponents in an effort to retain control of the debate, an effort which failed abysmally.

Because, in the end, simply contradicting your opponent is not an argument, and last night, more than ever, Trump needed an argument. Instead, he was the bully he has always been, and this morning, rather than looking presidential, he just looks foolish.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

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