What Got Under Donald's Skin?

I'm not the only viewer of last night's first Presidential Debate of this election to notice that The Donald first seemed calm, cool and confident, then, he seemed to have suddenly fallen back to his ol' bullying ways.

Why was that? Did Hillary say something to piss him off? Did the moderator, NBC's Lester Holt, make him mad? Was he not getting enough oxygen to his brain with that weird sniffing?

I say it's because he dropped his "cheat sheet" of notes that were written on a small cocktail napkin sized scrap of paper.

Here's the evidence:

In the first capture, we see Donald glancing down at his crib sheet notes just as he starts his opening statement.

Here, a couple minutes later, we see Hillary jotting down notes on the plain, lined paper notepad positioned on the podium for that purpose. Not once in the entire debate did I notice Donald taking any notes.

No, despite how the shot looks, Donald isn't snoozing. He's looking down at his prepared notes, as he did often in the beginning, before apparently dropping them.


The NBC NEWS LIVE chyron at the bottom right obscures the area where I later, as shown in the last pic, saw the fallen cheat sheet. Is it there yet, or, minutes later...


Has he just now dropped it?


Sure looks like he's trying to crouch low but realizes he can't quite go that low with out making it obvious that he's picking something up off the floor.


Abort! Abort! Either he's cued via his earpiece or common sense (ah who am I kidding, his people cautioned him to "just leave it") he's back on the upswing, now looking towards his left...


In order to deftly grab the glass of water sitting on a shelf at that height. Again, note the original crouch depth...no way would the stage people put a glass of water that low so he had to be after something else. The crouch was so low, it popped his tie out of his jacket. You know that made him really pissed when he reviewed this later. Ties hanging out of jackets is so low class.


And once in hand he hardly puts it down, sipping from it again and again and again. This is also when his cray cray self starts to take over and he badgers Mrs. Clinton, interrupting her again and again and being a general ass like something got to him. His remarks were more off-the-cuff and not rehearsed and I know that's this guy's shtick, but c'mon, you'd of thought he'd be prepped for this, right? Oh, he was. But it was all on that sheet of paper.


THAT sheet of paper. Right there, sitting helplessly on the floor right in front of his feet. See it? Poor, poor Donald. First the teleprompter at a speech he gave last week and now this. Yes Donald, the gods are out to get you Donald. It's a plot to make you look bad! (Take it from me, this is what crazy people think.) I rest my case.