11 Times the Final Presidential Debate Caused a Frenzy Online
These eleven quotes from the third presidential debate will surely be remembered for weeks to come.
1. Such A Nasty Woman
Trump is the only one who is respectful of women. During the debate, when Clinton announced her taxation plans and made a reference to Trump’s evasion of taxes it led him to call his opponent “such a nasty woman”.
2. Trump Won’t Accept Unfavourable Election Results
Trump has constantly said that the election was rigged which has put Clinton in the lead of online polls. During the third presidential debate, when asked how he would take the election results if they were unfavourable, he said “I will tell you at the time, I will keep you in suspense.”
3. Comparing Charities
Hillary Clinton defended the Clinton Foundation against that of Trump, while making a reference to the six-foot-painting Trump purchased of himself with the foundation money, saying “Who does that?”
4. "Have You Seen Aleppo?"
When the question of Syria and the fall Aleppo came up, Trump questioned the moderator Chris Wallace “Have you seen Aleppo? From any standpoint, it’s fallen.”
5. Translation Errors
When Clinton was talking about the economy, she said to the moderator Chris Wallace “let me translate that” to which Trump replied with his usual interjection “you can’t”.
6. Who Is The Real Puppet?
In a clash over the leaked emails, Russia and Putin, the candidates argued who was a puppet of the Russian president.
"That's because he'd rather have a puppet as a president of the United States," Clinton said when Trump claimed Putin doesn't respect her.
"You're the puppet," Trump replied.
7. Trump Supported Iraq, "Google It"
Trump repeatedly blamed Hillary Clinton for the Iraq invasion, who said in hindsight, it was a bad decision. Clinton went on to say how Trump also supported the invasion, which has documented proof and asked people to “Google it.”
8. Bigly or Big League
Throughout the campaign Donald Trump has used the phrase “Big League” which has left many confused, thinking he was saying “bigly”. Google tweeted out that “bigly” was one of its top searches during the debate.
9. Putin Is Not Trump’s BFF
Trump maintain’s that he does not know the Russian president Vladmir Putin and claims he has never met him, as he distances himself from the country he blames for the Clinton email hack.
“I never met Putin, this is not my best friend.”
10. Bad Hombres
Talking about immigration, defending the wall he wants to build to keep out drugs, Trump said “we have got some bad hombres here and we are going to get them out.”
11. WikiLeaks Included Some “Beauties”
Talking about Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails and the WikiLeaks, Trump alluded to some exchanges between Clinton’s aides lamenting her decisions.
“John Podesta, you have terrible instincts” he said to the Clinton campaign chair.
(Source: NBC News)
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