I finally got to watch the interview and I was actually surprised by Trump's restraint. She tried to get to him a couple of times and he just kept talking.

 

I like how he pointed out how the press likes to take a subject that could be nothing major and blow it out of proportion.

 

I appreciate what he said about how he respects the office of POTUS when she mentioned him looking very sober when he met with Obama. If you can't respect the Office you won't care about it.

 

When she kept digging about his campaign opinions of the electoral college and he said is was not the best system, she mentioned that's how he won and he agreed but he wasn't going to change his opinion of it. 

 

She needs to find a word other than rhetoric. Seriously, give it a rest.

 

He said he didn't know about the riots and protests. I almost find that hard to believe BUT he has been very busy, probably busier than we can imagine, so it's possible he didn't know the extent. But to say he didn't know, I can't imagine he heard nothing at all.

 

I love how he refused to talk about how he would take care of ISIS and pointed out the issue with Mosul. She tried to say the American people deserve to know and he shut her down. I agree 1000% you do not talk about your plans publicly when it comes to this stuff. Why on earth would you want to give the enemy advance warning? That was the best part of the whole interview for me because someone finally gets it. Whether he can keep that up when it comes down to it another story but at least he gets it. 

 

I know there are people who are genuinely afraid because they took his campaign speak very seriously, and he was pretty brash about the subjects he talked about while campaigning, but I think a lot of people are just mad. Mad that he wants to change some fundamental issues and some of it takes away from them. All I can say is get over it. You can't always have things your way. He said he's not going to mess with the LGBTQ folks, he's not going to deport the common illegal immigrant straightaway- but he will deal with the criminal element which I have no problem with. The common illegal immigrants do not seem to be super high on his It List. I don't get why some of his supporters were talking "white power" when I don't recall him saying anything like that so I'm not sure, other than slurs he doesn't support nor agree with, how he's made the black voters mad other than he ran on the republican ticket. Maybe it's due to some of the people he's associated with but the left has their own skeletons in that regard. If we were all associated with and judged by every person we have been friends, acquaintances, or co-workers with none of us would be squeaky clean. Who he associates with and surrounds himself with going forward it was is going to matter.

 

I didn't watch but part of one of his campaign speeches but I did read about them and he said some jacked up stuff, but so did Clinton and everyone else who was involved in both the general and primary elections. He admitted it was nasty and pointed out it was nasty on both sides but he didn't throw Clinton under the bus in the interview. He actually didn't throw anyone under the bus as far as I can tell. I do hope he can keep away from knee jerk reactions on social media and everywhere else for that matter. If he respects the Office as much as he says he does then how he acts and reacts when things don't go his way will show whether that's true or not. He seemed to be very gracious for the man we all know only by reputation which is not very gracious at all. Time will tell.

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