"He ripped Mrs. Clinton in scathing terms that he declined to use when they were face to face..."

[Miles Archer]

Mr. Trump, for his part, sought to blame everything but himself. During an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, he charged that the moderator, Lester Holt of NBC News, had become overly aggressive with him — although he inaccurately said that Mr. Holt had questioned him over a 1973 federal discrimination lawsuit against Mr. Trump’s company. (Mrs. Clinton had raised the lawsuit question.) He also suggested that his performance was related to a faulty mike — even though he was perfectly audible during the telecast — and that he may have been the victim of sabotage.

And at a rally in Florida on Tuesday night, he ripped Mrs. Clinton in scathing terms that he declined to use when they were face to face.

But Mr. Trump’s lack of facility as a one-on-one debater was glaring at times on Monday, such as his inability to challenge Mrs. Clinton’s judgment over the attacks on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. He protested on Fox News that he could not find a way to bring up Benghazi, saying, “Don’t forget, you are asked a question as to progress or as to something, and it’s hard to get off to Benghazi sometimes the way the questions were framed.”

Mrs. Clinton, who prepared at length for the debate, was far more deft at unnerving her opponent, finding a way during an exchange about trade to bring up a loan that Mr. Trump had received from his father. Topics during general election debates are often inserted at prime openings by the candidates themselves, rather than by the moderators, whom Mr. Trump relied on during the primary debates to set the tone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/donald-trump-debate.html?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange&_r=0

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. "I couldn't fit it in to the question" = I suck at debate

Try sitting across the table from a Chinese negotiating team.

Dumbass.

[tonyt53]

2. When meeting with the President of Mexico, Trump also was a wimp. Then when he left, mouthing.

Donnie isn't so brave after all. No wonder he was a draft dodger.

[underpants]

3. He's a punk

A punk talks crap before and after but doesn't actually doing anything. A bully actually does something.