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Trump's sweaty Fox News interview shows his 2020 chances melting away | Richard Wolffe

With every new poll showing him losing, both nationally and in battleground states, Trump’s despair dribbled through all of his pores Sunday
‘For a man who still measures his manhood by his own TV ratings, it was a curious choice to sit outside, caked in his glowing orange make-up, to field the pesky questions of Fox’s best interviewer.’ Photograph: Fox News

Two generations ago, Richard Nixon sweated his way to losing the first ever presidential debate on television to a young, fit and cool John F Kennedy.

It was the kind of rookie mistake you could put down to the newness of TV.

So how do you explain – 60 years later – the drenching sweat that trickled down the face of the reality TV star who is now living inside the White House?

Of the very few things Donald Trump is supposed to know in any modicum of detail, TV sits right at the tippity-top. There are more historic crises challenging his presidency than there are

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