Due To Lingering Grudge, Trump Threatens To Boycott Debates

President Donald Trump is in talks with his advisers about skipping the general election debates in 2020, maintaining that he was ill-treated by the nonprofit commission that sponsors them.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1268099
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What a convenient excuse…

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Why would the Democratic nominee ā€˜debate’ Trump? It would be nuts.

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The snowflake is afraid to participate in the debates. He did badly in the first ones, his mental condition has degenerated significantly since then and he and his advisors don’t want it on view.

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Which would you prefer?

A debate that shows obvious contrast or Trump using the electoral advantages of being president.

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Frankly, the less I have to hear the grating voice of this bellowing asshole, the better life is…

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Why not have an empty chair on the stage- trump’s an empty suit anyway.

Run for office. Register people to vote. Get to the polls. The Senate may not convict but we still have (for the time being) the ballot box!

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I’d love to see Greta Thunberg open up a can of whupass on Donnie in a debate. She’d wipe the floor with him.

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It could also possibly be that his debating skills utterly blow.

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He knows he would get his ass kicked, and that Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal would be featured guests.

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It’s also a continuing topic

March, 2019

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This. ā€œLingering grudgeā€ must be Russian for ā€œsecret acknowledgement of one’s own incompetence.ā€

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Again Trump is reaching back to strategies and behaviors from the past. He complained and whined his way onto the Republican primary stages.
How many us want to bet that the reason he wants to skip the 2020 debates is that his ā€œadvisersā€ can’t come up with any policy positions other than ā€œAll for me, and none for theeā€?

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He is too impaired, mentally and physically, to debate anyone and his handlers know it.

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He’d have to call for Corey Lewandowski or some random rally goons to rough her up.

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He’s not going to bail. He’s all drama.

The moment Joe/Elizabeth say that they will step onto the stage and show an empty podium where Trump was supposed to be…followed by the words ā€œchicken and cowardā€ …DJT will turn his golf cart around and slowly lumber to the event.

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They won’t play if they can’t put their finger on the scale
They are terrified of him trying to ad-lib with his declining cognitive skills.
You heard it here first
There will be no debates.
And guess what?
ā€œAin’t nothing’ going to happenā€

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So can we expect the Democratic candidate to stand there and take questions from the panelists, while Trump sits on his golden throne and tweets his critiques?

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