President Donald Trump indicated on Monday night that he would not bail on the next and final debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden slated for Thursday, even after the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced that the candidates’ mics would be muted during certain portions of the event.
the President would be participating in the debate “regardless of last minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate.”
My hero!
Swoon.
Oh, the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth that must have preceded this announcement. I’m sure his campaign staff had to bulldoze him into it. He’d rather just have rallies, rallies and more rallies.
What a tough guy!
“I will participate,” Trump told reporters upon returning to the White House from his campaign rally in Arizona
I’ll wait and see. Betcha he tries to pull a very, very last minute threat to pull out if they don’t change something, just to show he’s a tough guy.
Trump caved.
Loser.
Watch him walk in with a bullhorn.
Which one’s the bullhorn?
Why not? I’d invite the Michelin folks into my kitchen if I could only believe the reason they didn’t give me 3 stars was “they’re biased”. Trump will blow this debate but it will not move the needle one notch. His supporters will insist he won and stand by their man. So why not?
But he does crybaby a lot doesn’t he.
All right, so now we’ll get to hear Trump yelling across the studio during Biden’s two minutes, wheezing and coughing as he tries to get picked up by Biden’s mic. Will he lumber over and grab his opponent’s mic?
For that matter, will Trump even take the “mandatory” (unless you’re The President) COVID test pre-debate? Failure would be an easy out for him (hint, hint).
How nice of him
Depends on his medications.
Drum roll…
It’s no problem. He’ll just yell and then start dancing.
We’ll know from his schedule over the next 3 days whether he is doing any debate prep. Can’t imagine that there’s many folks left who want any part of that.
Do you think, maybe, another deferment ?
Trump thinks it is very unfair that he will not be allowed to break the rules. That pretty much says it all.
So he can yell and scream about being censored and victimized by the establishment’s unfair rules unfairly used to silence his perfection.
Wouldn’t it actually convey the opposite. Whiny little wuss mode is more like it. In a sense though, between controlling the mics and staying rigid on topics, they have already crushed him. He lost this debate before he ever showed up for it.
The mic bit reminds me of one of my jobs. We had an underwriter, nice guy, very knowledgeable but very eccentric in his own right. He constantly made noise including humming Gregorian chants (former seminary student or such) and talking to himself. This was an open bay workplace, no cubicles or private offices except management. His noise drove us nuts. He had been talked to multiple times. Came in one day and management had ordered and had installed his own private cubicle with a door no less. He lived in a box in the middle of our department for the rest of the time there. Life was much better for us.