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By ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Mr Kipling
I think Biden has just given Trump the win. On his own, live mic? This should be fun.
Trump is also gaff prone but his supporters don't care what he does.
rcch
Can’t wait. :)
bass4funk
I don't understand the "No audience" rule. I can't remember that EVER being done since I've been watching presidential debates. Clearly, it's a fear based requirement. The Biden campaign is afraid of President Biden being in front of a live audience for a debate? What are they afraid of?
plasticmonkey
Absolutely. It's not pro wrestling.
Trump can't win on substance because he's a dolt. It's all just nonsense pre-packaged throwaway lines like "Biden crime", "Crooked Joe", "Sleepy Joe", "witch hunt", or "radical Marxists". And made-up anecdotes.
Totally false.
From the guy who can't remember Jimmy Carter's name, admires Hannibal Lecter, and who fantasizes that Sinatra advised him on his political career.
Looking forward to seeing Biden wipe the floor with this clown.
zibala
Trump called Biden was the “WORST debater I have ever faced - He can’t put two sentences together!”
Trump is being too kind by acknowledging Biden can put one sentence together.
stormcrow
The Q-anon ppl, the Proud Boys, the KKK, etc., are wild about Trump. Add all of these odd balls together along with the Moral Majority, and you have to ask yourself if the U.S. is mentally competent enough to choose an effective leader.
When you think about it, candidates need to be more focused on enticing the mentally ill to vote for them, something which Trump (and the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene)understands very well.
Peter Neil
i don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
at both of them.
plasticmonkey
The audiences used to be polite. That's no longer true in the MAGA era.
Trump wants a rally, not a debate.
bass4funk
Wrong.
And Biden, “he’s a bully, he’s a thug, c’mon man, he’ll want to take him out the back and beat the one-pony show.”
Disagree.
Ok and now what’s Biden’s 15 excuses? And it’s a long list.
How??
2020hindsights
Mr Kipling
Unlikely. Trump does terrible in debates. Why do you think he declined to debate in the primaries.
It certainly should be. Biden came out on top in the last debates, and I can't imagine things changing.
He doesn't need to capture his supporters. He needs independents.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
They aren't.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Let's be honest: the low information voters did not need this. Hopefully Trump will be muted until it is his turn at least.
plasticmonkey
Both of their mics will be muted when it's not their turn to speak.
bass4funk
You can say the same for the MAGA haters
No, he wants a debate, Biden doesn’t want an audience, I know it rattles the guy and throws him off.
Not me, Biden.
Biden is, but he does have abortion and that’s all he has. Should be a breeze for Trump.
I hope, they keep Biden focused and to answer the questions that are most concerning to Americans. I have my doubts though.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
Biden doesn't have any problem staying focused and alert. Trump, does, however...
2020hindsights
bass4funk
Biden also has low crime, low unemployment, buoyant stock market, infrastructure rebuilding, etc., etc. The list goes on.
TokyoLiving
To rent a balcony and see such a decadent show..
The two biggest clowns on earth..
bass4funk
Wrong.
Not on the issues:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/13/election-trump-biden-polls
In the U.S. we do have video, audio and history, and Biden has over 50 years of it as a politician.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-called-japan-india-xenophobic-trump-mixes-up-leaders-do-candidate-gaffes-matter/ar-AA1o838Q
https://www.snopes.com/list/biden-press-conference-gaffes/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/07/bottomless-pinocchio-biden-other-recent-gaffes/
John
The cult cannot be persuaded by facts, reason or rhetoric.
But there is a determinative sliver who, for the life of me I cannot understand why, have not made up their minds.
Trump rambling about imaginary conspiracies, lying about known facts, and talking into a muted Mike should make quite the impression upon the undecideds.
they’ll be reminded that he lies like most mammals breathe: habitually and without conscious thought. They’ll be reminded that he knows not one fig about any kind of policy foreign, domestic, economic or trade. They’ll be reminded that although Biden might not be their cup of tea on Gaza, Trump is an avowed Islamophobic (and a xenophobe in general).
Oh and he’s very likely to be a convicted felon. So there’s that.
I’m sure it will go about as well as anything else he does…
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump sites some imagined bias or non-sequitor “legal” excuse and pulls out.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
Biden doesn't have any problem staying focused and alert.
Trump, does, however...
(Pictures Trump constantly sleep in court...)
John
One can imagine the felon in Chief coming off like a resident of an institution for the mentally disabled as he screams into a muted microphone and plays to a nonexistent audience.
Like Kimberly Gargoyle screaming “THE BEST IS YET TO COME!” to an empty room at the GQP insanity fest 2020, only with more ridiculous hair and makeup.
bass4funk
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/2953562/bad-data-from-the-fbi-mislead-about-crime/
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/12/biden-wrongly-touts-record-economic-growth-unemployment/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-stock-markets-performance-under-biden-is-worse-than-under-obama-and-trump-in-one-chart-65f73fb3
Where exactly, you can see it from across the pond?
More disasters very true…
Peter Neil
two worst candidates in u.s. history.
except for 2016.
bass4funk
Not on the issues
Anyone would in a sham court, don’t blame him for that.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
(Pictures Trump constantly sleep in court...)
What? It's not a sham court.
bass4funk
Biden never was, not as long as I can remember the guy.
Hmmm…
No, they turned out to be all true.
I worry about Biden might shake hands with the air or talking about Corn Pop making difference.
Ok, so you’re saying that Biden will just lie and do his usual Trump baseless attacks. That helps Trump, let old Joe ramble on and then Trump’s retort, talk about all the issues he accomplished all 280 and talk about the issues now and put Biden on Indisputable and facts record.
And will still run, there’s that as well, not to mention this all helps Trump.
Yup.
Naw, Biden on the other hand….
Maybe from not what you’re reading in the distance from your end.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
What? It's not a sham court.
Same as you.
bass4funk
Maybe not for you over there.
I’m from the States, a citizen, I travel and have a home in the states, different.
John
NONE of them turned out to be true.
Illegals did not vote. There was no determinative election fraud. Trump lost and he knows it. He is lying.
You are either also lying or you are delusional and I don’t know for certain which it is.
Could be both.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
What? It's not a sham court.
Same as you.
As far as this trial is concerned, same.
WoodyLee
Oh yes, it's show time.
lincolnman
Can't wait to hear about "illegal Ad-el-in-thins", his wife "Mercedes", and how much he misses "Hannibal Lector"...
And get ready for more "Dings" and "Bings" than an Akihabara arcade palace...
It will be a MAGA-comedy-fest...
bass4funk
Maybe not for you over there.
I’m from the States, a citizen, I travel and have a home in the states, different.
Different, I know the system and know NYC.
proxy
I have never watched a political debate of any sort but this should be comedy gold thanks to Biden so I might watch.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
As far as this trial is concerned, same.
Me too. Same.
bass4funk
Where?
funkymofo
Trump is pushing a third debate AFTER agreeing to terms. He's setting up an excuse to weasel out of participating. He has a history of dodging debates.
Wasabi
will trump be able to join from jail ?
wallace
The debates should include all three candidates.
bass4funk
Not his style. Biden is the one that doesn’t want an audience and wants to go to a lib friendly venue for a debate hosted by lib moderators. Those were Biden conditions, Trump just want to debate.
When has Biden or any of the Dems went on a heavily conservative platform? Hmmm
lincolnman
Indeed - I imagine the biggest one is getting all that TV equipment into Leavenworth and getting the Warden's OK for Trump to participate...
When Trump gets asked how many women he's sexually assaulted and paid off, why he implemented a coup plan its author told him violated federal law, why he illegally violated a subpoena to turn in all his classified, and why he then obstructed justice by re-hiding it and telling his aides to destroy the security tapes...
Get ready for more than 450 "I plead the 5th!"....then he'll go blubber to himself in a corner of his cell....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-deposed-ny-ag-civil-probe-business-practices-rcna42355
wallace
The debates should happen after the states decide on their nominations.
funkymofo
He already skipped debates during the Republican presidential primaries. He is a notoriously weak debater and has continually showed a poor knowledge of policy and international affairs. He is much more one for rambling monologues at rallies where he is not fact-checked or challenged.
Nothing to do with attempting to dodge debates. He agreed to the terms.
chotto_2
bass4funkToday 09:02 am JST
He doesn't want to debate. He wants to scream and moan about not being able to scream and moan about how unfairly bigly and hugely witch-hunty things are that nobody has ever seen the like of before.
Just saved an hour of your time, bass.
You're welcome
Jimizo
He was quite good at lying, playing the victim and insulting people during those rallies but that skill is declining as his mental faculties slide alarmingly.
Saying that, Biden is hardly sharp as a tack these days either.
These debates could be farcical.
2020hindsights
bass4funk
He has a history of dodging debates.
Pete Buttigieg often does spots on Fox News.
Bob Fosse
Trump called Biden was the “WORST debater I have ever faced - He can’t put two sentences together!”
45 has trouble finishing a single sentence.
“We're a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-feh-ur aah” is the most I’ve laughed in ages.
Can’t wait for the debate. I want to hear more about how corn isn’t a liquid.
itsonlyrocknroll
There is no reason why these debates cannot be held in front of a live voter audience.
With questions fielded from voters participating.
This audience would need to be managed/selected from a measured pool reflecting candidates political party affiliations.
itsonlyrocknroll
All candidates must be subjected to scrutiny, to be vigorously challenged, to be confronted and questioned.
Policies be put under the spotlight of debate. Performance in office etc...
Probing searching examination in public yes inform of the voting public.
No excuses.
Politics is not for the faint hearted or the unprepared.
Jimizo
Astonishing that they still have viewers after being caught red-handed lying to viewers.
Hardly a challenge though. Buttigieg is a bright man.
plasticmonkey
There is nothing in the conditions that specify "lib friendly venues" or "lib moderators". If there were, Trump wouldn't have agreed.
Or did he agree so that he could whine about the agreement?
bass4funk
He was leading, so no reason to show, no one was going to vote for any bozos anyway, just a waste of his time.
Dunno, he roasted 17 well-established polished career politicians in 2016, so I would disagree.
Both Democrats and Republicans with all their experiences had all the knowledge and screwed up international affairs with their incompetent policies. Your point?
Neither the Dems and the fact that they’re supported by Dem pundits doesn’t give one a lot of confidence.
Well, let’s hope Biden will hold up.
plasticmonkey
This will give you a sense of what Trump will sound like in a debate. From his interview for Time, in which he is asked about the possible effects of his proposed 60% tariff on all Chinese products.
Are you comfortable with additional inflation?
Trump: No, I've seen. I've seen—I don't believe it'll be inflation. I think it'll be lack of loss for our country. Because what will happen and what other countries do very successfully, China being a leader of it. India is very difficult to deal with. India—I get along great with Modi, but they're very difficult to deal with on trade. France is frankly very difficult on trade. Brazil is very difficult on trade. What they do is they charge you so much to go in. They say, we don't want you to send cars into Brazil or we don't want you to send cars into China or India. But if you want to build a plant inside of our country, that's okay and employ our people. And that's basically what I'm doing. And that’s—I was doing and I was doing it strongly, but it was ready to really start and then we got hit with COVID. We had to fix that problem. And we ended up handing over a higher stock market substantially than when COVID first came in. But if you look at the first few years of what we did, the numbers we had were breathtaking. There's never been an economy—
In other words, he's completely full of it.
funkymofo
If you need to see a doctor, it's best to choose one that studied medicine.
He didn't want to be challenged because he doesn't have the answers. He knew that participating could only harm his chances, the exact reason he's preparing an excuse to bail now. Full of bluster, but folds like any bully when put on the spot.
Let's hope Trump shows up.
Norm
TFG will find a flaccid excuse to not show up for any of them.
OT, but will he actually show up to his youngest son’s graduation ceremony on Friday?
goldnugget
Biden will never make it to the Democratic convention. I think the candidate will be Newsom.
bass4funk
He will ace it.
Democrats?
He did, none of them had any comebacks which made him the more favorable candidate at the time. Definitely changed my opinion. Particularly that he loathes the establishment was music to my ears.
Correction, that was the lefts thinking.
What are you talking about, he didn’t nor did he give any indication of doing so, are the left that hateful of the guy that they’re now just making stuff up?
Biden was always known for that, nothing new.
More like, let’s hope Biden holds up.
bass4funk
Utter BS! They are libs 100%
No, Trump will debate anyone, all you have to do is look at the videos, they don’t lie, there is more than enough history showing this. Biden on the other hand won’t go on any conservative show, let alone agree to a debate with a conservative moderator. The Dems would have a fit.
Wrong guy.
John
Only if it’s “person, woman, man, camera, tv” level.
Otherwise prep for word salad with slurred words.
plasticmonkey
Show some examples of unfair questions asked to Trump by “lib” mods in past debates.
John
Just like he did this cycle in the primaries!
Oh, wait….
bass4funk
Biden has always had these problems
Anything that didn’t have to do with policies.
itsonlyrocknroll
It is imperative that all the perspective US 2024 presidential candidates debate, open to scrutiny, in the sometimes harsh cut and thrust of a live debate In front of an audience.
Minimum.
plasticmonkey
Trump whines about everything. Rigged election, sham trial, unfair debates.
What a tosser.
bass4funk
And with valid reasons, 8 years to be exact. Don’t blame him. But that’s all the left have, personal attacks nothing more.
plasticmonkey
Examples, please.
bass4funk
All of them with the exception of abortion.
plasticmonkey
This is what Trump and his MAGA cult would consider a fair debate question:
”Mr President, sir, many are saying you were the greatest president of all time. In your second term, do you expect to surpass your record 280 accomplishments? And how will you deal with the radical woke Marxists who hate our country? 10 minutes, uninterrupted.”
plasticmonkey
I understand. You can’t back up your assertion of liberal bias.
plasticmonkey
There are no valid reasons for anyone to be a tosser.
bass4funk
Yes
Give them free tickets to their preferred destination of choice
More bad news for Joe.
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election
Just calling it for what it is. Facts, hate game, don’t hate the player.
bass4funk
Biden didn’t apparently get that memo.
dagon
One person coward Trump is deathly afraid of debating is Bernie Sanders.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sanders-fans-lambast-trump-chicken-000000747.html
Trump would get roasted worse than Obama did to him at that press event.
John
Like the time he said (repeatedly) Nikki Haley turned down extra protection for the capital (Itvwas Nancy and she didn’t).
Or the time he accused his rival of starting “WWII”.
Or the time he said he beat a candidate who wasn’t running.
Oh wait. Those were all the orange blob.
Quo Primum
CNN and ABC, eh?
Trump will have two opponents at those debates.
One opponent, of course, will be Biden. (Although between his cognitive decline and his lousy job performance, he probably won't be a very formidable one.)
The other opponent will be the so-called "moderator."
Speaking of whom, I wonder if they'll ask Biden about his daughter's diary -- which is undeniably authentic as confirmed by the woman herself, and which clearly details sexually inappropriate conduct by Biden with her.
I doubt it. The CNN and ABC moderators will probably participate in the same cover-up of likely sexual abuse of a child that the rest of the media are participating in.
bass4funk
Are you kidding me, now I would pay to see Trump stomp a muddle puddle in that Socialist. I wish, God I wish….
By a Socialist? That’s like Nadler getting in a ring with Tyson, the visual would be too gruesome to show on TV. Lol
bass4funk
Now contrast those few with a litany list of Biden gaffes. Lol
https://www.ranker.com/list/joe-bidenisms-the-funniest-and-best-joe-biden-gaffes/notable-quotables
dagon
Of course. It is a matter of intellect like in these interactions.
It is obvious isn't it?
Trump the ignorant alt-rightist would get roasted like like a socialist historian did to Tucker Carlson.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/20/historian-who-confronted-davos-billionaires-leaks-tucker-carlson-rant\
Same same.
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bass4funk
And you actually believe this garbage? Lol
Give me a break.
Nice try as usual, there is a reason why Socialism continues to fail, now if Bernie gave everything that made him rich…Capitalism, then I won’t say anything. Give all the money, donations and everything back that made him money.
John
“I hear you’re free on Wednesdays, Donald” LOL.
John
“The late great Hannibal Lector”
Yeah, compliments a fictional serial murderer and cannibal who is supposedly dead.
That’ll go great.
dagon
Trump first.
Sanders mad his money by his pen and great speeches.
Not cheating blue collar workers and selling out the American government to foreign interests and corporate carpetbaggers.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/24/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/
bass4funk
He’s a Socialist, he should do them for free.
He is definitely keeping tax payers, what he should do is give that money back, live in the mountains or tent, don’t take anything from the people But as the socialist he is, take as much money, enrich yourself and then take other people’s money. Sounds about right.