Donald Trump describing his ‘winning temperament’ was the top moment of the debate
Hillary Clinton (and the audience) couldn’t help but laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b-xCQ6VvF8
In a contentious 90-minute presidential debate at Hofstra University Monday night, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton traded jabs about ISIS, free trade agreements, race relations, and other topics. But the biggest moment of the debate was when Donald Trump — after a long, angry rebuking of moderator Lester Holt for suggesting Trump supported the Iraq War in 2002 (fact check: he did) — went on to say he had a much better temperament than Clinton.
“Well, I have much better judgment than she does,” Trump said, after Holt asked him how his judgement differed from Clinton’s. “There’s no question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has, you know?”
After pausing as the audience laughed, Trump doubled down.
“I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament,” he said. “I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.”
Trump: “I have much better judgment than she does…I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament.” https://t.co/akHgqQ4lUN
— ABC News (@ABC) September 27, 2016
Twitter’s Government and Elections team confirmed that Trump’s “good temperament” comment was the most discussed moment of the debate.
Top 3 Tweeted Moments of the first US presidential debate: pic.twitter.com/35l5PhEw4y
— Government (@Gov) September 27, 2016
Google searches for the word “temperament” spiked following Trump’s repeated use of the word, and Merriam-Webster reported that lookups for the definition of the word increased to 78 times higher than a normal hour of lookups. (For the record, the dictionary’s definition of temperament is “the usual attitude, mood, or behavior of a person or animal.”)
At the debate, Trump continued, “The AFL-CIO, the other day, behind the blue screen, I don’t know who you were talking to, Secretary Clinton, but you were totally out of control. I said, ‘There’s a person with a temperament that’s got a problem.’”
“Woo! OK,” Clinton said, with a smile and a shimmy of her shoulders that won renewed laughter and applause from the audience.
https://gifs.com/gif/trump-calls-out-hillary-s-temperament-at-debate-9-26-16-9rKNgP
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