This post has been updated.
Donald Trump on Wednesday morning told “Fox and Friends” that he will not participate in the Fox News Republican presidential debate on March 21 because he had already scheduled a speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
“Nobody even told me about it,” Trump said when asked if he would attend the next debate. “I thought the last debate on CNN was the last debate. That was going to be it. And I’m doing a major speech in front of a very important group of people, I think it’s eight or 9,000 people, that night. And it was scheduled a while ago.”
Trump did not seem disappointed that he will have to skip the debate.
“I think we’ve had enough debates,” he said on Fox. “How many times can the same people ask you the same question?”
When co-host Ainsley Earhardt told Trump that the voters love the debates, Trump said that “the networks love them.”
“The Republicans get good ratings if I’m in it,” Trump said.
Watch the clip via Fox News:
“I’m not going to be doing the [@Foxnews] debate.”
–@realDonaldTrumphttps://t.co/D8DofXStMZ— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 16, 2016
Oh no! They’ve spent the better part of the last week giving Trump a tongue bath too.
And now THIS! ~Ailes faints!~
Just the other day, they said we were so mean to blame Trump for inciting any violence! Why, actually, Trump is the victim and he is the one being violated:
FOX haz’ a sad!
So basically, “I’m the presumptive nominee, and I don’t want to bother.” The next few months should give us a nice foretaste of the Trump presidential style.
I guess even Donald Trump can exhaust a vast reservoir of argle-bargle at some point in this campaign.
Yep, he’s finished with all this “debating” nonsense.
He won. Let the losers debate amongst themselves.
(But, he’ll continue to call in to Joe and Mika, of course).