When his age became an issue in the second 1984 presidential debate against a younger Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan found a way to use it to his advantage.
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The Ronald Reagan Mic Drop Moment At The 1984 Debate | NBC News
In all fairness to RR, the miscues happened during the first debate. First debates often favor the challenger, who has been debating over and over again for months, sharpening their skills. On the other hand, the incumbent has long been away from debates where they have to skillfully field questions from all over the place. That first debate wasn’t surprising. I personally don’t think it had to do with age. It should never have to. Sadly, the best response to the age question after that came from Bill Clinton in 1996, when he said he had no problems with Bob dole’s age, just the age of his ideas. He was right. Age shouldn’t be a factor in and of itself. Some elder statesmen are very capable; some younger ones aren’t. And I wouldn’t trust Donald Dump with a lemonade stand, no matter how old he was. 🙂
Mondale wins first debate Reagan wins second debate Reagan wins third debate if this was a rap battle Reagan won two out of three rounds
Dan Quayle: I’m like Jack Kennedy!
I knew Jack and you’re no Jack Kennedy.
Dan Quayle. You hurt my feelings! 😭
Truth hurts buttercup.
Reagan on his worst day was a better president than joe on his best day.
I was born on this day.
What a racist legend! Never can forget him
This a perfect example why people are concerned that Biden might not be mentally fit to deliver important speeches in regards to Russia’s invasion.
Biden is old and struggles with words that could start a war. Putin isn’t a person who laughs much.
Say something you don’t mean and blam. Disaster could strike around the world.
Thank you YT for this recommendation of a classic comeback.
Best president of all time
I was in college at the time and remember watching this debate. This moment was AWESOME and we all laughed. Its one of many reasons why my generation LOVED Reagan. To this very day, I am SO proud that my first time voting for president was in ’84 and I voted for Reagan.
He had already Alzheimer’s in 1983.
this is how to win an election. you needs to be a comedian
I remember seeing Reagan struggling for words. You could tell he was getting sick–it was SO sad whether you agreed with his politics or didn’t.
respect for Mondale though
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..what a sport…
Moderator: you’re already the oldest President in US history..
Biden: Hold my Beer..
36 years later you think mondale has come up with a really witty comebacks?
Regan was by far the best president you’ll ever have. This is coming from a middle Europe country
This is a great clip I’ve seen it several times before on Youtube but. They think the viewers are going to associate the genius of Reagan with Biden and be like yeah his is the same. That is a bit far-fetched but distant enough to claim plausible denial that they are trying to make that connection.
Compared to Brandons REAL Alzheimer, Ronald Reagan was just an older men, who sometimes forgot what he wanted to say. Something that also happened to me when I was 12.
And destroyed the US
Grande Reagan!
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That was ‘clever but scripted’ on Reagan’s part … but Trump’s off the cuff “Cause you’d be in Jail” interuption is MUCH more ‘Clever’ and Apropos and doubtfully will EVER will be Matched!
Reagan should have done more than a few things differently in policy, but he and Nancy were an example of graciousness and working with the “other side”. They re-set the tone of politics and would have been appalled at the modern Republican Party.
Reagan was the best in my opinion. He stood for America 🇺🇸 and the American 🇺🇸 people
1984 Is oldest U.S. presdient now showing his age?
2022: YES!!
Nazi make me laugh. Me vote for Nazi.
Me just read what stupid writes
Reagan greatest president ever.
Those days when politicians of opposing philosophies had respect for their opponents. And you look at that human trash, Trump, and wonder will we ever see those days again?
This was back in a time that democrats still had a sense of humor.
VIVA La Reagan Revolution! MAGA Baby!
🤔
Still sharper than Biden
TRUMP 2024……45/47…..🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I remember a president who ignored the AIDS crisis, pretended that Trickle Down Economics works, traded arms for hostages, got the marines blown up in Beirut, was one of the first big deficit spenders, had Nancy feed him information when he started to falter, was a poor second rate actor, encouraged mentally ill to be released into their communities, ramped up the worthless so called War on Drugs, didn’t stand up against apartheid in South Africa, Having flowery speach & a good wit doesn’t qualify as a great president.
Even liberals miss Reagan.
A killer, it always makes me smile.
NBC sucks!
If you think he is bad wait till they get a load of me,,, By joe” creepy” Biden.
Reagan is the greatest President along with Trump.
He was America’s best president since Kennedy
A post Trump Republican party will be the dominant party in the US for a long time to come. Woke/Cancel Culture has left a very bad taste in people’s mouths and the only thing keeping the Democratic party from suffering the electoral backlash of it is the Trump factor. Once that is no longer an issue in 2028, the GOP will start steamrolling elections just like they did between 1952 and 1988.
The math is there. More people have left the Democratic party just since 2020 than have joined it which has brought down their voter registration by over 2.5 million in that short amount of time.
In 1965, 67% of Americans identified as Democrats but only about 31% do so today. That’s a loss of over half in just the last 50 years.
It’s projected that by 2032, the Republican party will once again have more registered voters than the Democrats for the first time since 1930.
Independents are the fastest growing voter block btw.
Reagan… The Great American Political Orator of the 20th century. He was masterful at using the English language to win hearts and minds. If only his predecessors would learn from his example and had his drive to succeed, the Republican party would once again be well represented.
Regon would be a Democrat now
I think the Biden and the driving forces of the current Democrat party (though not necessarily every part of that party) have become what Reagan warned against in his very early, famous speech now called, ‘A Time for Choosing.’ It’s available here on YouTube. Look it up; it’s fascinating. It talks about several things that mirror recent and current times.
Regon might. Reagan no way!
Apparently this doesn’t matter anymore. Biden, fetterwoman ect!
Lmfao hahahhahaha
Politicians are like witches in hypothetical theory
I was on a Jack Stauber playlist why tf is this in it.
The only thing close to this is Trump telling Hillary “cause you’d be in jail”.
Bob Beckel, who was a member of Mondale’s campaign team, once said on The Five (on Fox) that he was actually standing behind the black curtain near Walter Mondale. Because of that incredible comeback by Reagan, he said that when he got home that night and got in bed, he told his wife that the campaign was over because Reagan had just won re-election at that debate.
He’s almost as smooth as Joe Biden
Why is Leonard “The Forehead” Dolt in the same video as President Raegan – sacrilege!
Fire whoopie
Ronnie raygun. The ultimate pos
The oldest and one of the best president you had America. I respect that Man(. still)
The only Mic drop Biden could do is if it slips out of his hand.
My favorite president👍🏻
What NBC News doesn’t say is that Reagan won 525 electoral votes to Mondale’s 13. Can I get you a tissue, NBC?
Priceless. RIP Mr. president
Maybe the best political interaction I’ve ever seen between two opposing party members
Even Mondale laughed at the joke, gotta love how people could still be civil with each other even they were on opposite sides of the aisle.
My favorite Reagan moment is when they created a system that moved all the wealth from the bottom half of the country to a few people at the top and literally obliterated the lower-middle class. Great job, everything went amazingly well for half the country, but that really wasn’t the job, was it?
Interesting that the press don’t ask the same questions today….
Pos
Was this before, or after Reagan committed treason with Iran?
now think of Kamala Harris. We also laugh, but through tears.
From DOWNTOWN for THREE – and he was FOULED
👍
In 1984 a guy stumbles in a debate and he’s too old and in decline. In 2020 we have a president who messes up every speech he gives, Can’t spit out 2 consecutive sentences, can’t walk up steps, looks confused and dazed in almost every function he attends and yet 81 million people voted for him!
Well 74 million people were stupid enough to vote for an orange orangutan who wants to date his daughter and never fulfilled any promise he made, wrote love letters to Kim Jong un and couldn’t even protect a government building.
At least Biden can pass legislations and sign them into law, tell putin and xi to fu¢k off and give dignified speeches.
@j p what does any of your jibberish have to do with what I wrote? The guy you love needs a diaper and can’t string 2 sentences together! Seems you commies love brain dead candidates.
@DD Sara well he used to stutter. Sometimes he paused for a second or two. But the guy who you’re saying “can’t put two sentences together” has won 6 senate elections, 2 vice presidential elections and a presidential election so it should be pretty obvious mf knows how to give a speech and rally people behind him.
But sure go live in your dream.
@j p yeah he’s spent a lifetime sucking off the public trough with no accomplishments to speak of bc of losers like you who will vote for a potato if it has a D in front of its name.
@DD Sara so he had no accomplishments and yet got voted in so many times.
And contrast that with anyone like for example Trump. He did so many things that people voted him out after just one term. 🤣😂😂
Make it make sense.
Reagan supported regulating and controlling freedom of the press. He was a Trojan horse. He put the Nazi CIA to work after Eisenhower established them in America. Then the bush’s, Clintons, Obama, Cheney’s all did the same. 🤡 He was an actor for a career and all he did was come in a play the American people.
How do you win 49 states???? Can’t imagine that today
Let them eat cake! Ronald Reagan!
Lester Holt serial liar, what a shill.
Ronald Reagan was the last best Republican president America has ever had and probably be the last looking at what we’ve got in store for 2024 Republican Donald Trump has screwed the Republican Party screwed do United States government screwed do United States citizens over and over all his life and some people still support a piece of crap like Donald Trump when all these witch hunts gets done and the results come in Donald Trump will pay for every wrongdoing he’s done
If elections were real then this would surely be a momentous retort.
When will we learn.
The video was misleading. This was a funny moment but even after the prior debate Reagan was always going to win 45+ states..
I long for the days when politics was a difference of opinion, and not a reason to hate someone you disagree with.
That was such an epic moment! 😂
Back then American are well mannered and God Fearing…Now it is the reverse..
NBC the leader in fake news. CNN hold my water
Didn’t that end up 49 states to 1.
Heart breaking.
He was a true man
Maybe do a follow up showing the geriatric old man in the Whitehouse now.
The next president needs to be a woman named LucindaAnn
Reagan was 73 years old at this venue. From today’s perspective it looks surprising that his age became a matter of discussion at all.
Age was only an issue if the candidate was conservative.
The left ALWAYS attacked R’s for their age. Reagan, Dole, McCain, Ron Paul, but when Trump ran it was against Hillary who was the same age. Lol.
They couldn’t say anything.
Now they defend a guy who got elected being older than when Reagan left office. Smh
NBC: ”He is the oldest president to run for office at 73 years old, some question his abilities…”
Biden: Hold my beer!
Back when even opponents could laugh and get along.
Reagan was a horrible horrible president. When will people start looking at the reality and not some entertaining moment. Gore lost the election due to a debate eye role. I decided to leave the country at that moment his ratings dropped. I did. Never looked back.
I used to love Reagan. Now I still love his rhetoric and wit, but his actions were mixed.
Definitely good and bad.
Gore would’ve been a disaster, as is Biden.
@Matt Emmick that’s your opinion and to me it speaks volumes of absurdity.
@Mike A 🪕
@Emily Alp Loosli That’s nice. No one ever said liberals were smart.
@Matt Emmick your comments advertise everything they are supposed to, especially since I am not a liberal–I am an expat of 16 years with a world view vs. a view of life from inside a mason jar of US existence.
Let’s all take a moment and celebrate the fact this peace of sh1t died 20 years ago.
Well is not like he was trying to I wish he was the president we have right now
Dear lord how I miss that man. Those were heady days.
Yeah I should let go at some point – and now is the best time – they should make their own mistakes n learn from it but hopefully not very catastrophic ones like in the few years – the two guys.
Reagan won the election a month later 525-13.
That’s just so crazy.
Mondale only won DC and barely won his home state of Minnesota. Lol
Let’s not forget that the hardcore left demonized Reagan almost as much as the left demonized Trump in 2016. The difference is that the hardcore left did not run the media in 1984.
Back when Democrats and Republicans had respect for each other and America. No wonder why times were so much better back then.
SO…WHAT MAKES YOU SO SUPREME..LOSS FOR WORDS, HE SEEMS TO GO BLANK…THAT WOULD BE JOEBLOWBAMA😂
How dare you make fun of one of the best president we ever had next to Trump oh this is from NBC that would figure there against anything that’s American Trump 20/24
So they question Reagans mental state, but they let the current old fart in to office without saying a word about his obvious poor mental state? Hmm.
You might want to look at the worst #fake president in American history. #joebiden.
This is the guy that declared Hillary the winner the night before the election
How sad that NBC covers for dementia-addled Biden today.