Monday night provided us one of the stranger moments of the entire election cycle. After two consecutive medical emergencies in the audience, Trump paused all questions and… swayed to music playing on stage for 39 entire minutes.
Without reading the caption, you could be given 100 guesses as to how he introduces Ave Maria and you would be wrong 100 times.
Major media outlets took different approaches to making sense of what transpired.
I went to look for a higher resolution screen grab and I love that they’ve added a qualifier now: Trump’s Pennsylvania Town Hall Ends With Odd Concert
After abruptly canceling an interview with CNBC, he did sit down for an interview with Bloomberg News at the Chicago Economic Forum, an interview that by all objective accounts went off the rails.
He then capped it off Tuesday night with yet another incoherent speech in Atlanta.
Tied race!
Kamala Harris, on the other hand, continues her media blitz, with a planned appearance on Fox News and a potential interview with podcaster Joe Rogan.
But maybe nobody is more upset than TIME Magazine owner Marc Benioff.
Her continued silence on a Hot Ones appearance is deafening.
In recent month, the Federal Trade Commission’s Lina Khan has quietly become one of the most polarizing figures of the Biden administration. At just 35, she has become well loved by consumers and much maligned by executives/VCs for going after monopolies and predatory corporate behavior.
Taken as a whole, the agency’s work has made Khan the face of a fresh backlash against concentrated corporate power. In her own telling, her tenure has been about returning the FTC to its original mission of protecting people from predators. “You’re always having to look around the corner to figure out, are you about to get screwed or taken advantage of or ripped off?” And many scams, she says, are hidden costs of laissez-faire oversight. “These things are not some type of inevitability,” she says.
Khan’s been so effective that Kamala Harris supporter Marc Cuban has called on Harris to drop Khan if she’s elected.
Today, the FTC dropped another banger:
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