Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson show this is the weekend edition in which we do something

cultural but we've also just had a debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and so we would like to hear Victor's

take initially on that first and then we'll talk a little bit about Dante's

Inferno stay with us and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis-Hanssen's show, Victor's The Martin and Ili Anderson's Senior Fellow in Military History

and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished

Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

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subscribers. So Victor, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have just debated and I wanted to hear your initial reflections.

I know that you and Jack will be talking about it for Tuesday, but let's listen to your initial

reflections.

Well, I was up in the mountains, I'm trying to get some fresh air and beat this

scourge, whatever I call, long COVID. And I watched it and, you know, it wasn't really a debate it was all the main issues were covered in

10 to 15 minutes and you know Trump didn't have to be Damocinies or Cicero all he had to do was

control himself like he did in a second presidential debate, he did.

And then he just basically said,

you did this to the border, you did this to crime,

you did this to energy, you did this in Afghanistan. You did this in Ukraine.

And we have all these illegal immigrants. And then that was it.

And he essentially said then you're the worst present in history. This is a disaster. I didn't want to be president and then he just reacted to what was the strangest performance I've ever seen in a debate.

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