Presidential candidates are always looking for ways to connect with their constituents, and GOP nominee Donald Trump took advantage of one of those ways Wednesday night.

Trump hosted a Reddit AMA in which he took questions from Reddit users.



A Reddit AMA, which stands for "Ask Me Anything," is an event in which a particular person agrees to be online at a certain time to field questions from the general public about his or her work, life, ideas – and everything in between. It's an opportunity for the public to interact directly with people of note.

Wednesday's event wasn't a free-for-all, however: NBC News reports that moderators of the The_Donald subreddit were "only allowing established users to participate and plan to carefully screen comments."

Trump was running a bit late for the big event, but when he did (virtually) arrive, he explained that he would be answering questions while on a plane ride to Toledo, Ohio.

The first series of questions Trump answered were posed to him by a subreddit, or subsection of the website, called /r/asktrumpsupporters. Trump answered only the first two of the five questions posed, and didn't answer those two in full:

The next question Trump fielded was about combating "dishonest media," and again, Trump gave an incomplete response:

However, as the AMA continued, Trump answered some questions by detailing aspects of his campaign platform. One of the questions posed to him appeared to be asked by Milo Yiannopoulos, who was recently permanently banned on Twitter for violating the platform's code of conduct:

Trump also sought to encourage a young person thinking about entering the law enforcement field: :

