Will Trump Show Up for Tomorrow's Debate?

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Rex Huppke: Until we see him set foot on the debate stage Thursday night in Atlanta, there's a strong chance the former president chickens out and runs to the safety of a rally.

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The sniveling orange pedo will back out of the debate. Book it.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-06-26 06:52 AM | Reply

There are tv cameras.

You can bet that man, woman, boat, shark, where's Lorenzo? will be there.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-26 07:15 AM | Reply

For Trump it's a contest between the humiliation of looking bad on TV versus the humiliation of backing out. It could go either way. And, either way, as we speak he is eating his own liver because of it.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-26 07:45 AM | Reply

There's never been any evidence that Trump handles stress well. IF he shows up to debate, the best he can hope for is to bluster and call names. The worst is that he descends into a sweating, babbling Hell with millions watching.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-26 07:47 AM | Reply

What I'd like to see is Trump threaten Biden or someone during the debate. I really would. Let this monster show himself. It's not like he hasn't done it before. Let him throw one of his Hannibal Lecter hissy fits. Let him leave a real sh-- pile on the debate stage for his lickspittles here and elsewhere to try to clean up later.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-26 07:54 AM | Reply

Problem is that his supporters will eat up whatever happens. Any undecideds at this point are liars. Question is how many won't vote at all and who will come out better there?

#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-06-26 09:17 AM | Reply

My money is on
-Dotard shows up
-Dotard makes a fool and a spectacle of himself
-Dotard gets 'mad' and walks off about halfway through the event
-Diamond Joe is left to talk to the American Public about his record and plans for the next four years

And that, kids, is how Joe Biden is re-elected president...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2024-06-26 09:29 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#7 | POSTED BY CATDOG

I see a version of this happening as well. All of trumps talking heads are setting the stage for this with the "3 vs 1" talk. The trumplicans will excuse him and say he had no choice but to leave.

#8 | Posted by memyselfini at 2024-06-26 10:31 AM | Reply

It would be so boss if they were both in sound proof glass booths,
and when they cut Biden's mic he would just stand there and smile, waiting for
the next question, and when they cut Trump's mic, he would rage, and
turn even a deeper shade of orange, and sweat profusely, and gesticulate,
and be winded by the time the next question arrived.

#9 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-06-26 10:52 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

My guess is Trump will rage profusely, every time Biden makes a
point, and will constantly attempt to talk over him, without a mic.
Of course after about 5-10 minutes of this he will get winded, and
then just sit and stew (as before in court) with his Grinchy Resting
Trump Face.

It should be amusing.

#10 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-06-26 10:54 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

It should be amusing.

#10 | POSTED BY EARTHMUSE

I will try and watch it but I expect it to be a total waste of my time.

It's not like both weren't already President with records to compare.

Pretty sure I will learn nothing new from either one.

And I already know that Trumpy is a fraudster who has abused and raped women hangs with hookers and is a twice impeached criminally negligent convicted felon.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-26 11:10 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

If Trump doesn't show up or throws a tantrum and leaves, his supporters will love him even more.

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-26 11:28 AM | Reply

I'm just gonna give it 15-20 mins, unless it gets
very amusing via Trump antics, and then likely tune out.

Other than the Independent Crowd, I think about
80% of the country already knows the way they
are going to vote.

#13 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-06-26 11:29 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Presidential debates have become pure political theater. I haven't bothered to watch one since Obama's first campaign.

#14 | Posted by qcp at 2024-06-26 11:34 AM | Reply

LOL, Biden has been holed up in Camp David for 6 days with 16 debate advisors and training to stand for 90 minutes. Isn't he the President? Shouldn't he know what's going on with his policies and with world affairs? Trump is out campaigning, he doesn't need debate prep, he already knows what's going on.

#15 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-06-26 11:37 AM | Reply | Funny: 5

#15 POSTED BY FISHPAW

better stop it...they don't deal well with reality

#16 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-26 11:53 AM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 2

Joe can show up on a stretcher with an iv stuck in his arm with drool instead of words coming out of his arm and the left will say he killed it.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-06-26 12:11 PM | Reply

I am hoping the former President will devolve on television into a drooling shouting madman for all to witness. I have a stash of salty greasy snacks laid in.

#18 | Posted by john47 at 2024-06-26 12:15 PM | Reply

Biden is learning all about sharks and electric batteries. I heard he is learning about the new non-existent electric tank Trump is upset about too.

#19 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-06-26 12:30 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Joe can show up on a stretcher with an iv stuck in his arm with drool instead of words coming out of his arm and the left will say he killed it.
#17 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

That's because even a 99% dead Joe Biden is still light years more acceptable than a fully living Donald Trump, you stupid ------- dork.

#20 | Posted by JOE at 2024-06-26 12:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Funny how the MAGA moron idiots are now turning the absolutely normal process of debate prep into a sign of infirmity.

It's that exact bottom of the societal barrel stupidity that will see Trump's horrific school yard performance as a "win" while nitpicking every minor detail from Biden as confirmatory "evidence" that he is too frail to hold office.

We're dealing with morons who live entirely in a secure bubble of their own making.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2024-06-26 12:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Joe can show up on a stretcher with an iv stuck in his arm with drool instead of words coming out of his arm and the left will say he killed it.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw

Joe can show up on a stretcher with an iv stuck in his arm with drool instead of words coming out of his arm and he'll still be a better leader than the russian puppet con man who attempted a coup.

#22 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-26 12:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#15 | Posted by fishpaw

How long did biden stand during the state of the union?

Oh right you probably hid from watching it.

Trump doesn't need debate prep because his words are meaningless and his cult doesn't care what he says. It takes no prep to just lie for hours on end. He does it at every rally.

#23 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-26 12:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump is out campaigning, he doesn't need debate prep, he already knows what's going on.

#15 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

You think Trumpy knows what's going on?

He doesn't even know who won the last election!

Just ask him.

Now that there is some funny stuff, I don't care who you are!

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-26 12:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Will Biden piss clean for mind enhancement drugs?

#25 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-06-26 01:32 PM | Reply

There's a drug test?

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-06-26 01:35 PM | Reply

Will Biden piss clean for mind enhancement drugs?

#25 | Posted by Bluewaffles a

Trump accusing biden of using drugs means one thing for sure - trump is using drugs.

Trump accused biden of election fraud when trump committed election fraud.
Trump accused biden of corruption when trump is corrupt.
Trump accused biden of having dementia when trump has dementia.
Trump accused biden of serving china when trump serves china.
Trump accused biden of fascism when trump embraces fascism.

Every accusation from trump is a confession.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-26 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Will Biden piss clean for mind enhancement drugs?"

You mean like Mountain Dew?

#28 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-06-26 01:47 PM | Reply

Will Biden piss clean for mind enhancement drugs?

POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES AT 2024-06-26 01:32 PM | REPLY

Maybe if you took some you wouldn't post such stupid comments.

#29 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-06-26 01:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Will Biden piss clean for mind enhancement drugs?

#25 | POSTED BY BLUEWAFFLES

How to say Trump will lose the debate without saying that Trump will lose the debate.

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2024-06-26 01:59 PM | Reply

To shut the MAGAs up, Biden should walk out on the stage and hand Trump a jar of fresh warm piss so he can have it drug tested. Biden's daughter can watch Joe pee (nothing she hasn't seen many times before) and sign an affidavit so we know it's all on the up and up. Joe won't do it though because he couldn't pass a drug test.

#31 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-06-26 07:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Trump's ego won't allow him to avoid the debate.

#32 | Posted by Tor at 2024-06-26 08:01 PM | Reply

Will the daughter-boning orange pedo make it to the first commercial break without -------- himself or falling asleep?

#33 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-06-26 08:11 PM | Reply

#31 | Posted by visitor_

Trump will see the jar of pee and get his first ----- since he was raping girls with epstein.

#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-26 08:13 PM | Reply

Trump will see the jar of pee and get his first ----- since he was raping girls with epstein.

#34 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

So true.

#35 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-06-26 09:20 PM | Reply

Biden shredded in TV ad highlighting illegal-immigrant murders to air during CNN debate

#36 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-26 09:41 PM | Reply

If Biden passed a piss test, Trump would just say he used synthetic urine. The demands never end because the whole point is to have some weird thing to complain about.

There is zero point to engaging with trumpers' fantastical delusions; the moment you satisfy them they just bounce to the next neurotic conspiracy like the neverending DVD screensaver.

#37 | Posted by JOE at 2024-06-26 09:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump ------------ for overseeing the biggest one year jump in murders on record.

apnews.com

#38 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-06-26 09:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#37 ... because the whole point is to have some weird thing to complain about. ...

Yup.

Fmr Pres Trmp, and his cult, always the victim.

#39 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-26 10:05 PM | Reply

This is a stupid hypothetical. Of course he's going to show up. As will Biden.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-06-26 10:32 PM | Reply

This is a stupid hypothetical.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-06-26 10:32 PM | Reply | Flag

Does it surprise you, considering who posted it?

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-06-26 11:50 PM | Reply

@#40 ... Of course he's going to show up. As will Biden. ...

That's my view as well.

And, at times, I wonder why the news media seems to have created and propagated this meme.

Where did it originate?

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-27 12:25 AM | Reply

He's a fat stupid coward.

#43 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-06-27 12:33 AM | Reply

Initially Biden was going to provide a urine sample to CNN to have it tested. But in previous attempts, Biden would forget to use a container and he ruined too many suits so his handlers gave up on the concept.

#44 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-06-27 10:32 AM | Reply

Re 44

Biden does not have to agree to any of Trumpy's ridiculous demands or any of your urine fantasies.

Biden is under no obligation to prove anything to Trumpy. He will be there to prove himself to the American People.

If Trumpy is afraid of debating Biden (drugs or no drugs) then just don't show up and prove what a coward and a fake plastic person he really is.

#45 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 10:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

In an emergency we might not have a week for Joe to rest and undergo a drug regimen in order to make a coherent decision. Unelected bureaucrats should not be running the government.

#46 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-06-27 10:55 AM | Reply

Unelected bureaucrats should not be running the government

Lol. Do you think the president is personally micromanaging every decision made by every federal agency every single day? Have you heard of cabinet secretaries and undersecretaries? How do you think the government managed to function when the president spent all day golfing, watching TV and complaining on twitter?

#47 | Posted by JOE at 2024-06-27 11:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

During Trump, the government bureaucracy spent a lot its time resisting and slow walking his executive orders.

#48 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-06-27 11:06 AM | Reply

During Trump, the government bureaucracy spent a lot its time resisting and slow walking his executive orders.

#48 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

During the Trumpy Error government bureaucrats had to get lawyers to protect themselves from the repercussions of all the unlawful orders Trumpy was issuing.

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 11:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

In an emergency we might not have a week for Joe to rest and undergo a drug regimen in order to make a coherent decision.

Like when we had an emergency on January 6th 2021?

Trumpy did nothing to stop it. He froze like a deer caught in the headlights.

#50 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 11:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#50 You mean when he told them to leave and they left? You and Adam Kinzinger share the same kleenex box?

#51 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-06-27 11:44 AM | Reply

Trump will go the building but he may decide to hold a rally outside rather than lose to Biden inside.

#52 | Posted by Tor at 2024-06-27 11:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#52 Yeah, it's definitely going to be something like that. I would be shocked if this just proceeds like a normal debate without any kind of weird spectacle.

Thanks Republicans

#53 | Posted by JOE at 2024-06-27 12:09 PM | Reply

#50 You mean when he told them to leave and they left?

You mean AFTER 187 minutes and the damage was done?

He froze like a deer in the headlights of his own car heading right at him not knowing what to do or worse refusing to do anything.

For 187 minutes.

#54 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 12:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#44 | Posted by visitor_

Trump can give a urine sample at any time by just wringing out his diaper.

#55 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-27 12:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#50 You mean when he told them to leave and they left? You and Adam Kinzinger share the same kleenex box?

#51 | Posted by fishpaw

Look at how your cult hates former members who rejected the cult leader's lies.

#56 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-06-27 12:22 PM | Reply

#50 You mean when he told them to leave and they left?

You mean AFTER 187 minutes and the damage was done?

He froze like a deer in the headlights of his own car

He didn't freeze. He was in his glory watching the violence and destruction his magat scum were doing for him.

Froze? He was rubbing one out from his mushroom.

#57 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-27 12:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"He was in his glory watching the violence and destruction his magat scum were doing for him."

Agreed. I just wanted to hear fishpoo try and defend it.

#58 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 12:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#31 Visitor How about we drug test both Trump and Biden. Let's see who is actually using mind enhancing drugs. I bet Biden will pass the drug test and Trump will fail the test.

#59 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2024-06-27 12:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#59 Ok.

#60 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-06-27 01:51 PM | Reply

#59 The Orange Pedo will never submit to it. He will cry and bitch that only Dr. Ronny Johnson could give him the test, all others would be rigged and unfair and corrupt and rigged.

Man
Woman
Boat
Shark
Battery

#61 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-27 02:20 PM | Reply

Man
Woman
Boat
Shark
Battery....#61 POSTED BY NIXON

I'll take winning re-election strategies for 1000 Alex

#62 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-27 03:12 PM | Reply

I'll take winning re-election strategies for 1000 Alex
#62 | POSTED BY BRERRABBIT

That should make you worry. Unfortunately, you're gonna vote for the orange turd despite such a "strategy."

#63 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-06-27 03:42 PM | Reply

Not only did Trump show up, I heard he was arrested out in the parking lot on an attempted murder charge but was let go when the coroner showed up and determined the corpse was dead before he showed up.

#64 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2024-06-28 01:47 AM | Reply