Donald Trump flubbed the last debate. His allies know it, his fundraisers know it—but that doesn’t mean they’re willing to admit it.

On Thursday, the Republican presidential nominee announced that he had decided not to debate Vice President Kamala Harris for a second time, writing in a lengthy rant on Truth Social that “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” (Apparently he’s counting his debate against Joe Biden.)

But less than 24 hours after the major reversal, Trump’s team was already working to explain away why the country would be getting less of their candidate.

  • @Chickenstalker
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    382 months ago

    Simply run the debate but with Kamala talking to a Trump cardboard cut out.

    • @fuzzywombat
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      2 months ago

      The cardboard cut out would actually do better than Trump. It wouldn’t get baited into talking about crowd size and then babbling conspiracy theory about some migrant eating dogs and cats.

    • @kautau
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      152 months ago

      Honestly the dems hosting a “mock debate” like this would be incredible. Release it as a YouTube video comedy partnership or something. Even better if has a great Donald Trump impersonator

    • @I_Has_A_Hat
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      22 months ago

      No. That’s on par with Clint Eastwood yelling at an empty chair. It just comes off looking pathetic.

    • Pantsofmagic
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      22 months ago

      Or an AI generated version of him puppeted by Taytay who has a great excuse for doing so.