The first presidential debate descended into chaos as Donald Trump battled with the moderator and Joe Biden lost his cool calling the president a fool and asking, “will you shut up man”?
Mr Biden was saying Hillary Clinton’s quiet part out loud, with Mr Trump’s previous sparring partner from 2016 chiming in online to voice her approval: “You have no idea”.
The night’s host, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, came under fire for failing to keep the night on track as the topic plan was entirely thrown out the window in the cross fire of two candidates talking over and snapping back at each other.
In some of the most bizarre and erratic moments, Trump said he doesn’t want to pay taxes when responding to reports of his financial records, said past comments on injecting bleach to cure coronavirus were sarcastic, and refused to denounce white supremacy.
Biden, meanwhile, said that he was the Democratic party when fending off Trump attacks that the far left was pulling them towards socialism. “Right now I am the Democratic party,” he said.
When the president later asked why he couldn’t end the riots in Democratic controlled cities, Biden, who moments earlier called himself the party, said he didn’t hold an elected office.
The pair became particularly heated when Trump targeted his opponent’s son, Hunter Biden, saying he had a cocaine addiction and repeating allegations he received $3.5 million from a Russian oligarch while his father was still vice president in 2014.
Hunter’s daughter, Naomi Biden, took to twitter to say she wouldn’t be able to stop herself slapping the president if she was on stage.
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The reviews were brutal. DNN’s Dana Bash called it a “sh*t show” live on air, while ABC’s George Stephanopoulos said it was the worst presidential debate he’d seen in his life. CNN’s Jake Tapper called it a “hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck”.
The debate was branded such a “disgrace” that there are already calls for the next one to be cancelled.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said it best: “Everyone who watched that debate deserves $1,000 a month.”
