True. Instead he spoke to why a person would ask him or someone like Colbert or Kimmel to be president. Though, in his answer, you can hear he doesn’t want the role.
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Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
He doesnt answer the question
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
People are asking because the people are thirsty af for any sort of competence and leadership from the democrats.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He does, he essentially says don’t put your faith in me as doing so signals you have already given up.
Its not a single one-worded answer of course, and that’s because it’s understood a question like that requires some explanation of why you would come to the end conclusion.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You can quite obviously hear him say that he’s a terrible person for the job.
He’s an entertainer, he needs to be popular with his audience, and thus he needs to disguise negative feedback with humor.
If you speak plainly, he said to the guy wanting him to run for president “you barely know me, you just heard like 5 sentences you like and you’re already wanting me for president. That’s totally stupid, but it’s understandable because these 5 sentences are already better than anything you heard from Trump. I’m not even a good candidate and you’d still take me just so you don’t have to have Trump. So no, please actually try to elect someone that’d be good at the job, don’t force me to do who would suck. Look at what I’m doing now, I can’t even plainly tell you what I think, my desire for approval is so high. Be happy that I only use my charm for random humoric nonsense, if I’d use my charm for personal gain I’d basically be Trump, he also was mainly an entertainer.”
So yeah, while he doesn’t answer it, he does his best of trying to answer it based on the constraints that his person is being placed under.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Im am fully aware
But its still not really the same as a clear “no”
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
He says and I’m paraphrasing here, that the person who asks him that question is threatening him withna twilight zone like curse. He is trying to say it politely but he doesn’t want the job and that the question comes from a place of frustration. He doesn’t want the job.