On the recordSeptember 29, 2020
last night, President Trump delivered one of the most disgraceful performances at a Presidential debate that anyone has ever seen, and I do not mean that from a political perspective; I mean it from a human perspective. One can become inured to the President's tendency to melt down when confronted with his facts, his brazen lack of self-awareness, his stunning lack of regard for others, but it was maddening to watch the President last night--angry and small--unable to show a scintilla of respect, unable to follow even the most basic rules of human civility or decorum, unwilling to constrain a stream of obvious falsehoods and rightwing bile. Shakespeare summed up in ``Macbeth'' Trump's performance last night-- ``a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'' Yes, President Trump's debate performance was, in the words of ``Macbeth,'' a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. In an hour and a half that felt like a lifetime, the President managed to insult Vice President Biden's deceased son and smear his living one, please a fringe White supremacist group, and cap the night off by, yet again, casting doubt on our own elections--tarnishing our own democracy. Those were just his worst moments. The rest of the debate saw the President heap lies upon lies--lies big and small and every size in between. This President and truth don't intersect at all. Still, one moment stands out.…





