Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Expected bar room fight was little slap
AMERICA was anticipating a bloody bar room brawl when Donald Trump and Joe Biden finally showed up, but all they got was a debate.
Following their shameful first head-to-head full of interruptions and insults, organisers installed a mute button on their mics. All it did however was amplify the two men’s huge differences.
Trump was much more restrained than before giving his best debate performance. What he lacked in substance he made up for with swagger.
Unable to interject as before he instead made Charlie Chaplin’s silent movie expressions look amateur as he performed dramatic head nods, eye-rolling, smirks and grimaces as Biden spoke. The
President though was unable to step away from making unsubstantiated claims about his leadership or baseless attacks on Biden. Both were to his detriment.
As the night wore on Trump began to badger his opponent with aggression, casting Biden as a failed career politician saying he was “all talk and no action”.
But while he tried to mock or belittle his rival, the former Vice President remained focused in setting out his vision for the next four years with clear policies – an area in which Trump floundered.
By the end of the debate, it was unclear whether the head-to-head was enough to change the shape of the race.
Trump had desperately needed to land a punch that could help him bridge what is now a double-digit gap in the polls, instead he simply gave Democrat Biden a slap.
IT’S a sight that none of us wants to see – Donald Trump Jr in bed.
But this week the President’s firstborn, 42, posted a bizarre video from his pit, moaning that Instagram and its algorithm was hiding his posts, and that this colossal liberty had not gone unnoticed.
“I guess I did something to p*** off the Instagram gods. Hopefully, you’re seeing this stuff anyway,” he bleated, just hours after he accused Twitter of “throttling” his posts.
There are quite a few people, not just Twitter, who would like to throttle Junior.
SERIAL sex pest James Cousins was spotted seemingly up to his old tricks while in his truck on Louisiana State University’s campus in Baton Rouge. The 72-year-old, left, was spotted appearing to pleasure himself while watching a female student. Cousins, who has a history of perverse criminal charges against him, later told police he was innocent and that a heart condition prevented him from exerting himself.
As for why his arms appeared to be moving in CCTV footage, he told cops he was playing “air drums”. Needless to say, he’s been snared.
SCIENTISTS from Indiana’s Purdue University may have found the key to building stronger planes and buildings – after running over a beetle.
They drove a Toyota Camry over the aptly named diabolical ironclad beetle but it was indestructible.
It can withstand forces up to 40,000 times its own weight and its armour could transform engineering.
“This beetle is super-tough,” said researcher Pablo Zavattieri.
WHILE apparently fleeing the police, Stephanie Dowdy is said to have decided to ditch the drugs she had on her.
Sadly for the 33-year-old Louisianian, right, she allegedly threw a bag of methamphetamine out of her car window – and straight at an officer. Dowdy was charged with a felony narcotics possession charge and obstruction of justice.
WILDLIFE officials have smashed a flying squirrels trafficking ring that saw rodents trapped in Florida, driven to Chicago and then shipped to South Korea.
Seven people have been charged.
AMERICA’S favourite chicken wings have a new competitor to contend with.
In celebration of Halloween, Dunkin’ Donuts this week unveiled its latest treat – the Spicy Ghost Pepper Donut. Sounds more like a trick to me.
FORGET Donald Trump versus Joe Biden. When it comes to disagreements, my barman Richard and his wife’s mum win hands down. This week he told her “You do know ‘mother-in-law’ rearranged spells ‘woman Hitler?”.