Trump spurns traditional debate prep with first faceoff less than 3 weeks away

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has not held a single mock debate session, and has no plans to stage a formal practice round, as he readies for his first faceoff with Joe Biden in less than three weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions.

The president has dismissed the typical debate preparations he participated in four years ago, joking to aides and allies that he’s been preparing for debates since he was born. His ability to fire back at an opponent in real time, he’s argued, “isn’t something you have to practice.”

Instead, Trump has so far chosen to prepare through informal discussions with key allies and with briefings from top officials in his administration on various topics that are likely to come up, these people said.

“It’s not the traditional, ‘we need Chris Christie to fill in and play Hillary Clinton’ like we did four years ago,” one of the president’s allies said, referring to the former New Jersey governor who has helped Trump prepare in the past.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-spurns-traditional-debate-prep-first-faceoff-less-3-weeks-n1239605

[ArizonaLib]

1. He's been practicing lying in real time for years

Biden and the the Obama alums know how to handle liars

[rurallib]

2. In the same vein, lies are often off the cuff material

while memorizing facts and reality takes effort.

[ArizonaLib]

7. Yes, it is difficult to support that type of lying

Although effective on some, those lies don't stand up - they are superficial and without the substance of truth and reality. Biden's team has been preparing since the GOP convention by saying things designed to force Trump to react in ways that alienate undecided voters with the naked and blunt truth. I am still waiting for the Biden/Harris campaign to wage war on Trump being weak - the one narrative Trump has been fixated on. I have been waiting for almost 2 decades for the Democrats to bring back 'Buy American', and God bless Joe - he is doing it.

[Historic NY]

3. He is going to act like and asshole trying to intimidate and talk over Joe....

huffing and puffing and sweating from his adderall high

[Cha]

18. Hope trumps nose Explodes.

[calguy]

4. He probably thinks he can talk and charm the viewers

Just like he thought he could charm Bob Woodward. How did that work out?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. After you've prepped for 18 hours with Bob Woodward, what would be the point?

[underpants]

9. Yeah. I mean given the ROLL he's been on....let it ride!

[yaesu]

6. all tRump is going to do is con his way through the debates, something he has practiced all

his life. will lie, change subject, make confusing statements that only his deranged base understand.

[mdbl]

12. Exactly.

Which is why i won't be watching. I still think Biden should tell him to take a flying leap into hell and forget debating him.

[keithbvadu2]

19. If Dotard has the cojones to show up.

If Dotard has the cojones to show up.

Biden should do it.

[DallasNE]

8. He's Been Reading The Polling That Says Americans Expect Trump To Win The Debates

That is a fear I don't share. He lost all 3 debates 4 years ago. When he speaks without a teleprompter the result is a word salad even worst than Sarah Palin at her worst. We should know from each candidate's opening remarks how the evening will play out.

[mdbl]

13. But his base loves it

because they are just as willfully ignorant as Trump.

[oldsoftie]

15. That is exactly right.

[Polybius]

22. Perhaps, but he did 1,000 times better in the most important debate, the third one

He was at his worst in the least important debate, the second one. His expectations were extremely low going into the final debate, and he gained a little after that.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Trump is practicing non traditional debate prep...

Poo throwing...

[FloridaBlues]

11. Biden better be on his game that night

O call out all the lies in quick response

[mdbl]

14. The theme song for the debate should be fhe refrain in Lies by the Thompson Twins

would be perfect.

[Ponietz]

16. Biden should tell Dump to cram his debate

How do you debate Al Capone, Charlie Manson or Hannibal Lector? They just make a farce out of it.

[Cha]

17. trump is going to get up there and Insult Joe Biden

with ugly LIes.. no heinous lie is off limits.. in order to get a reaction out of Biden.

He's going to accuse Biden of Everything Vile thing he's doing.

[keithbvadu2]

20. For a debate, Biden should only insist on one condition - show up!

For a debate, Biden should only insist on one condition - show up!

Ignore 'conditions' that Trump may try try to avoid debating.

[lastlib]

21. Goo-ood! Please proceed, Mr. Resident!

Go ahead and pull "facts" out of your fat ass, like you always do, and Joe will hand you your other a--, er, head--on a platter. Be a dickhead and think your "stable genius" will get you through this, and they will pick you up afterward with a sponge.

[Joinfortmill]

23. Trump will chicken out.

[Bayard]

24. Moderators better be prepared to cut off his mike when he goes over his time

And you know he will.

[pfitz59]

25. He has a "Big Brain"

and knows more than the experts. Will the moderators cut him off when he rambles nonsensically?

[lark]

26. He will stalk him, make ugly faces at him & try to trip him up.

He will ie and lie and lie and lie and lie and lie - no need to practice for that, just pull another one out of his ass that are stacked up, ready to try & despoil us just a little bit more.

[apnu]

27. He's going to riff it just like he did with Hillary

The clown is pure chaos, there is no prep with him. He always blathers on about whatever surface thought he has at the moment and his staff scrambles to make it policy later.

I do wonder what Joe Biden thinks of facing this idiot. Personally, I think its a waste of time. But its tradition, and Biden will make a juicy scandal for himself the media would love to flog him with if he turned down a debate with Trump.

This is going to be a total shit-show. All Biden can do is not to rise to Trumps antics and appear like a sane alternative to the grunting orange asshole.

[AKing]

28. I can't wait to see and hear his meltdown when he gets fact-checked by the moderators

[brooklynite]

29. I wouldn't assume that will happen...

It's not a part of the agreed upon format.

[Maxheader]

30. Joe needs to say bs to all of stumpys lies..

The questions will screw with dementia boys mind...it did during the

'debates' with Hillary....The donnybots will blow off all the stupid from

their leader...while the rest of us listen to a quite insane person...

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. Biden's prep must be about how to defuse Trump's lies immediately

He has to be prepped and have at the ready, all the sourced information to counter all of the predicted lying Trump will be doing. Even with the proof, it will still be "well that's fake news". But Joe has to be prepped not only with Democratic platform policies, but how to combat a weasely lying sleezy POS like Trump. Combating someone who lies constantly, and confidently, is harder than it seems. I hope his team has a plan for that. Because any kind of simple "yes you did"...."no I didn't" cycle won't work.

[SKKY]

32. I think Napoleon stated it best...

...“Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”