WOW. This is why Harvard students are amazing. Not afraid to stand up for the TRUTH!
That exchange was world-wide news worthy?
Weird.
yeah he had also confronted the Prime Minister of Japan in April, so he’s been on the radar all over Asia (before the trump thing happened). He’s also apparently super downto earth and everyone loves him on campus.
@8bagels : Yes. It was definitely newsworthy. Why would you think otherwise? Would you care to explain yourself? Please do. I would be very interested in your reasoning – or lack thereof.
He didn’t do anything newsworthy.
He said “South Korea pays $861 million for defense.”
It’s newsworthy that a college junior said that at a town hall?
Contrary to the title of this thread, he didn’t “fight” Trump at all. He was nervous as heck, made a short statement, was bullied/mocked by Trump a bit and that was it.
I could see how his parents and friends would get a kick out of the video. World wide news? Don’t see it.
no @8bagels - Joe wasn’t nervous. He was waiting for the mike in the beginning and was probably shocked that he had this amazing opportunity that he grasped. And he would have fought back but the organizers swiped the microphone out of his hand before he could interject. He mentioned this in an interview. Bullied/mocked? Hardly. Joe didn’t even get to finish his sentence. If you look at his facebook, he says he had much more to say and that the short sentence he got out wasn’t even the main point he was trying to portray. Trump just took Joe’s first several words, cut him off, and started ranting.
And of course, this whole episode showcased Trump’s rudeness for all to see.
give him a break! He’s challenging Trump on an incorrect statement that no one had the gall to do before. And if he had the mike back, who knows what else Joe could have said.
I’m not saying he did anything wrong. And if he was given a chance, I agree, who knows what he would have said.
But as you say, he didn’t have that chance. He didn’t even get to finish his sentence. He didn’t get the mike back.
I guess that’s what I don’t get about the video. It wasn’t his fault, but he didn’t really do or say much, other than “South Korea pays $861 million for defense,” after which Trump, as you state, cut Joe off and started ranting. After which Joe was never heard from again.
I agree with you, maybe he “would have fought back” if given the chance, and he probably did have more to say (which he wasn’t given a chance to do). But none of that actually happened, and in reality he did and said very little in the video (again, through no fault of his own, but it is what it is).
It did showcase Trump’s rudeness, but that rudeness is showcased around 100x a day, so that’s nothing new.
No big deal one way or another. I guess people can view a 30 second video and come to their own conclusion as to whether it is so fantastic to be worthy of worldwide news.
To be clear, I’m not criticizing Joe in any way. He did a good job, and it’s too bad they shut him down before any real exchange could take place.
Well no matter what you think @8bagels, the fact is Joe became internationally recognized and it’s clear he has some fame and fans.
Side note: he looks like one of those Japanese tween boy band members. TOTES would date him. (Plus he looks kinda southeast Asian or a bit mixed)
No doubt about that!
Trump has given many people, from Joe, to that reporter who got jostled, to many others, their 15 minutes of fame.