Trump Heckles ‘Boring’ Dems, NBC In First Primary Debate Of 2020

US President Donald Trump greets troops as Air Force One is refueled at Elmendorf Air Force Base while traveling to Japan on June 27, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo cred... US President Donald Trump greets troops as Air Force One is refueled at Elmendorf Air Force Base while traveling to Japan on June 27, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Around the same time NBC News moderators asked Democratic primary candidates on Wednesday about a father and daughter who recently died trying to cross the southern border — reportedly after being denied the chance to claim asylum due to the Trump administration’s “metering” policy — President Donald Trump sent his first tweet of the night.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump tweeted several accounts connected to his reelection campaign and told followers to look to them for debate updates on the Democrats’ first presidential primary debate of the year.

The President explained he would be busy traveling to Japan for the G20. Or as he put it, “Sorry, I’m on Air Force One, off to save the Free World!”

Air Force One landed in Anchorage for refueling around the start of the debate and per CBS News’ Mark Knoller Trump was still on the ground when he tweeted his heckle. 

And another one, responding to a brief technical glitch causing the viewing public to hear multiple microphone feeds at once:

Trump also re-posted an old fan-made video showing him as some sort of eternal president:

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  1. Who cares what Trump thinks? Seriously, who cares?

  2. Avatar for sfaw sfaw says:

    I can’t tell you how glad I am that the Prime subscription money, etc., is going toward USELESS SHIT like this. Are we also going to be subjected to a year of “horse race” journalism [sic], too?

    Or: what ronbyers said.

  3. .@NBCNews and @MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate. Truly unprofessional

    yeah, the only breakdowns should be when stupid candidates don’t know how to walk on the stage

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uafScAiaC44
  4. I just cant let go of the every god damn day acceptance by every single complacent gop voting person i know of the ‘fake news’ 1st amendment attacks. Fake patriots.

  5. Technically glitch, huh? Courtesy of.,?

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