Donald Trump is threatening to boycotting the Fox News debate Thursday:
“I probably won’t be doing the debate. I’m going to have something else in Iowa,”
His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, confirmed that Trump would “definitely not” participate in Thursday’s Fox News Debate.
This could be a game changing decision. This is strong evidence that Trump’s arrogance has reached the point where he thinks he is invincible. This is consistent with his argument that he could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and no one would care.
I am absolutely certain that Chris Wallace, Brett Baer and Megyn Kelly are seething with anger at this. They are all professionals and they will try to hide this, but the anger will be there.
Fox has already responded with the following:
“We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.”
Those people opposed to Donald Trump were just handed a major gift. The chink in his armor. Notice that Fox News is taking the position that Donald Trump is afraid of them. The man who is bragging about standing up to everyone is apparently terrified of Megyn Kelly. Ouch!
Some in the media think this will help Trump, because the debate will be all about him and he won’t have to say anything. They could be right about that. But I suspect a lot of people will recognize that this behavior is childish and immature. It is fun to watch, as a celebrity candidate. It will not be fun to have a President of the United States even more thin-skinned and childish than the current one.
I wish everyone in the Debate Thursday night would just ignore Trump, but of course that won’t happen. Trump thinks that ratings will go way down because he is not there. That may not happen either. In fact, the opposite may occur. People may tune in just to watch the fireworks. If that happens, this was a huge blunder by Trump.
I learned this when I was eight years old. If someone gets mad, picks up his ball and goes home the ultimate revenge is to play the game without him and have a great time.
TDM