Will Trump chicken out of the presidential debate? Probably. He’s a Grade-A coward.

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1. Maybe, but wherever he’ll be that night, he’ll be blazed up on cocainerall, steroids, and godknows what else. 🤷‍♂️

2. It’s at least plausible. After all this hype about Biden supposedly being on drugs, Trump might pretend to be indignant and refuse to debate – making the drug “issue” his excuse.

3. I think the closer we get, the less he will back out. (be able to back out)

4. I can’t imagine him actually agreeing to the debate without some extremely gonzo, bizarre requirement. It’ll be something absurd, so he can blame Biden for not having a “fair debate”.

5. I think we’re too close for this to happen

6. I hope not, I’m looking forward to the nonsense. Hopefully it opens some people up to voting against him, or not at all, if they won’t vote Biden.

7. Wasn’t it a Trump minion that showed up for his debate and when asked about a specific bill he said that he doesn’t have time for this nonsense and walked out. I bet trump thought that was brilliant

8. Then let Biden have the stage for 2 hours or whatever and have a debate with a cardboard standee of Trump. The cardboard would probably make more sense than anything the real Trump would say anyway..

9. He’ll have diarrhea. He can truthfully use the excuse at anytime.

10. He’ll be there. He isn’t going to pass up an opportunity to berate Biden just like he did Hillary in 2016, Oh, and don’t expect him to obey the rules either. If a New York judge doesn’t intimidate him, CNN moderators sure aren’t.

    Biden views it like debating in college. Trump views it like a WWE wrestling match.

11. He’s not showing.

    He’s going to use the drug test requirement pitch to refuse and then he’ll put out a talking point about how he refused to fall into the trap of a “fake CNN debate” at his rallies.

12. If there’s any Trump supporters wouldn’t you want a president who is manly enough to stand up to an 81 year old man hopped up on speed and cocaine? Pretty sad he wont do that for his supporters

13. I wish, but I doubt it.

14. He won’t be a no-show, but he will walk off the stage in protest. It’s his go-to power move. He did it in Kaplan’s courtroom. The guy that says “refuttal” will waddle away in defeat.

15. Let him chicken out. Give Biden a platform to give a political speech to fill the hour.

16. Reverse psychology: will it work?

17. He wont be able to attend, hes got too many wounds (diaper rash) from the prison torture

    lol @ diarrhea excuse – omg when will this Trump nightmare end?

18. Zero chance. His fragile ego cannot accept any public perception of “Weakness” in him, so no doubt he’s going to go into this to a) ramble off a list of absolute whopper accusations and lies, probably also stating some crap like “I have a piece of paper here in my front pocket that absolutely proves you’re corrupt, but they won’t let me show it here” kinda garbage, and b) claim that CNN is clearly biased against him – asking him horribly skewed questions like “Why do you feel like you, as a convicted felon, should be able to run for president” instead of “My goo, you’ve done SO much compared to Biden to help this country – what more could you possibly do for us if you come back!?”

    Also, I’m FULLY expecting a 2nd debate being made, but being hosted by FOX and being the deliberate “Trash on Biden” debate.

19. His cult will act as though him losing his nerve and canceling is an act of unprecedented heroism.

20. Trump skipped the debate. Here’s why that’s bad for Biden…

21. He’ll show up at the debate, use the national stage to announce his VP pick, keep pressing this VP as the best thing ever for 10-15 minutes. Then will storm off the stage after several microphone cut-offs and several “CNN fake news biased questions”. This will make tremendous headline news (between the VP announcement, and “Trump storms out of debate in protest of biased moderators”, which greatly pleases his base. The ratings will be YUUGE!

22. I’d be shocked if he dropped out. It’d be disastrous for him to portray Biden as an incompetent, senile lunatic and then not show up to debate such a person.

23. He can’t resist national air time.

    Look for him to turn it into a circus, would not be surprised if he fills his diapers on screen and twerks, anything to keep the sensation hungry media distracted from reality.

24. Grade-F coward, mostly circus animals and some filler.

25. I’ll take that bet any day. Trump is a blowhard that loves the sound of his own voice. Easy money.

26. USA Today? They used to be the most boring and safe newspaper. Even the opinions were tame.

    Trump really broken us. We need him to lose by 10 points.

27. If I had to put money on it, Trump shows up, basically gives a speech, invents some way to accuse CNN of bias and storms off in “protest.” Fox News and the rest spend the next week taking about Trump’s heroic “stand” against the radical left media machine

28. Or will he storm off stage mid-debate?

29. I wouldn’t show up if I were him. There is zero upside for him. And that’s because he fuking sucks at everything

30. Bannon laid the groundwork for him to back out claiming if CNN didn’t apologize to his campaign manager he should.

31. I love the headline.

32. Biden should just read Project 2025 word for word, or any of trump’s unhinged speeches/tweets instead if so.

33. Biden should occasionally make a face like someone farted. Not too many times, just enough for people to get the idea. If Trump starts showing his ass, or gets too close. Biden should just fire off, “ Damn Donny! Did you shit yourself?”

34. Trump won’t miss an opportunity to be in the spotlight and rarely listens to his advisors. And he can probably get a lot of mileage out of “THEY TRIED TO SILENCE ME” when he inevitably won’t shut up when his time is up and they have to mute his microphone, over and over again.

35. Heck no he won’t chicken out.

36. I could see him showing up, then the first time Tapper contradicts him or tells him to just answer the question, throwing a fit and walking out. Then claiming afterwards the whole thing was rigged against him. Trump would love it because he’d get tons of free publicity and the MAGA cult loves it when he acts like a bad boy and gives everybody the finger.

37. Apparently his bone-spurs are acting up.

38. please let him be a no show.

39. If he doesn’t show, I hope they bring out an easy chair and a fake fireplace, then just have a “chat” with Biden (ask about policy and platform) just to piss Trump off.

40. Think of the most coherently spoken and non-cowardly things Trump has ever done, and consider that the top 3 by a margin are likely found in the Epic Rap Battles of History archives.

41. I want to hear what both candidates plans are for health care, social security, Medicare, the economy, immigration, Ukraine, Israel, tariffs, taxes, infrastructure, reproductive rights, voting rights, and so on.

    You know, what debaters are supposed to talk about.

42. One hour before.

    This is why they’re going with the “drug test” bullshit, so he can chicken out at the last moment but not give the non-corporate media a chance to call him out on it with details.

43. Oh my god, I’m sick of the name Trump!!

44. Trump is going to show up. And he’s going to continue to ramble even when they shut off his mic. And then he’s going to try to shout loud enough to be heard. And then when he’s scolded for that and realizes it doesn’t work, he’ll storm out before the debate is over. that’s my prediction.

45. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump just sent a cardboard cut out of himself with an attached sound system that just yelled “fake” “Wrong” “lies” at random intervals.