TRUMP IS OUT!
These Are Actual Post Titles, You Guys. And They’re Not Satirical.
January 26, 2016IRS Scammer Gets TOTALLY TROLLED, And It’s Hysterical.
January 26, 2016Guess it wasn’t a gimmick after all.
Trump has been toying with the idea of skipping Thursday night’s GOP debate, hosted by Fox News. On Tuesday, Trump told reporters in Marshalltown, Iowa that he’d likely skip the debate, and Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski later confirmed. Trump will not participate in the debate.
Lewandowski on Trump skipping debate: “He will not be participating in the Fox News debate on Thursday. It’s not under negotiation.”
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) January 27, 2016
This comes after a network spokesperson poked fun at Trump, and it apparently hurt his feeeeeeelings.
But he said that the final straw was Fox News’ response to his threat to sit out the debate.
A network spokesperson mocked Trump to several media outlets, saying:
“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.”
Trump fumed over those remarks at the Tuesday press conference, calling it a “wise-guy press release” and accusing Fox chairman and CEO Roger Ailes of “playing games.”
“Most likely I’m not going to do the debate,” Trump said. “I didn’t like the fact that they sent out press releases toying, talking about Putin and playing games. I don’t know what games Roger Ailes is playing or what’s wrong over there. But when they sent out that press release talking about it – I said what are these people, playing games? So most likely I won’t be doing the debate.”
Trump plans to hold his own event at the exact same time.
“We’ll do something else where we raise money for the veterans and Wounded Warriors. We’re going to do something simultaneously with the debate,” Trump said. “Why should the networks continue getting rich on these debates? Give some to the Wounded Warriors. You’re making a fortune. Let’s see how much money Fox is going to make on the debate without me, ok? Let’s see.”
What do you think? Will this hurt Trump and help the other candidates? I desperately hope Fox News has like, the highest ratings ever. Wouldn’t that be hilarious?
h/t The Hill
