Donald Trump, the star of CNN’s three-hour Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, said that even he felt it focused to much on him and ran too long.
Immediately following the debate, Trump said he thought the debate “questions were really good.” On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday morning, co-host Joe Scarborough asked Trump why he felt that way when so many of the questions were about the real estate mogul.
“Well, I thought I was treated fairly. I thought I was on too much. I felt badly for everybody else because every question had to do with me. Even the first characters — I mean, everything was about Trump. And then they go into this debate and it was split screens all over the place,” Trump responded. “It was a little bit unfair to a lot of other people.”
Trump suggested that it was a bit much to ask the other candidates so many questions about remarks he had made, pitting them against Trump.
“It’s a WWE kind of a thing,” he said. “It was really a little bit wild.”
He lamented the length of the debate, noting that three hours was “unacceptable.” He then added that CNN called the candidates about a week ago to notify them that network had added an extra hour to the debate.
“That means the advertising is so dense and so deep and they’re getting tremendous numbers per minute and per half-minute, that they just added another 45 minutes to an hour into the debate,” Trump said. “That had nothing to do with anything else.”
“How long is ‘Gone with the Wind’? Three hours and twenty minutes, right?” Trump asked.
Watch his phone interview on “Morning Joe” via MSNBC:
I wake up on the morning, and the Trump is actually making sense–about the debate anyway.
This calls for coffee…or whiskey. Coffee or whiskey, coffee of whiskey… Wait, why not both!
Time for a real Irish Coffee?
Trump actually does make sense upon occasion. Not that I’m planning to vote for the man, but I kind-of-sort-of back what he’s said about the VA and giving vets the right and ability to go to any healthcare provider and having the VA pay for it.
If the pundits knew their own business as well as Donald understands it…
CNN did a terrible, and self-serving, job. Mr. Trump is, again, spot on.
Whatever else, I may think of him, Trump knows exactly how to follow the money.
Carly would make a good Melanie Hamilton…