Trump will show up at the "debates" if the audience for the "debates" is the right audience.
Trump makes sounds that resemble words, and often even whole sentence fragments, but he never debates, never offers or defends a thesis. People naively mistake his utterances, and try to respond to them as if they are language, because the phonemes of "all Mexicans are rapists", interpreted as English words, seems to be a claim about reality. But Trump isn't trying to convince his auditors that Mexicans share the characteristic of being rapists. He has no concern for what they think; he is singing what they feel.
Trump's word salad is not language, it's jazz... specifically, it's a form of scat singing, wordlike nonsense syllables strung together in harmonic and rhythmic patterns that bypass linguistic processing, go straight to the id, and directly arouse emotions of self-pity, anger, excitement, resentment, fear, and rage.
This is why you can't win a debate with him or even wrong foot him on any subject with his demographic. You can't refute an aria with a dictionary.
Biden is generally held, especially by post-debate polling of Americans, to have won both debates with Trump in 2020. Oddly enough, Biden got higher approval ratings during the first debate, which was a shit show from Trump interrupting, probably because he called Trump a clown and said "Will you shut up, man?" So it can be done. Just not by the spineless sycophants who make up the other GOP candidates.
Of course TFG won't enter any debate. Debating takes preparation and brains, neither of which are high on his agenda of "What I want to do or have."
Trump will show up at the "debates" if the audience for the "debates" is the right audience.
Trump makes sounds that resemble words, and often even whole sentence fragments, but he never debates, never offers or defends a thesis. People naively mistake his utterances, and try to respond to them as if they are language, because the phonemes of "all Mexicans are rapists", interpreted as English words, seems to be a claim about reality. But Trump isn't trying to convince his auditors that Mexicans share the characteristic of being rapists. He has no concern for what they think; he is singing what they feel.
Trump's word salad is not language, it's jazz... specifically, it's a form of scat singing, wordlike nonsense syllables strung together in harmonic and rhythmic patterns that bypass linguistic processing, go straight to the id, and directly arouse emotions of self-pity, anger, excitement, resentment, fear, and rage.
This is why you can't win a debate with him or even wrong foot him on any subject with his demographic. You can't refute an aria with a dictionary.
Biden is generally held, especially by post-debate polling of Americans, to have won both debates with Trump in 2020. Oddly enough, Biden got higher approval ratings during the first debate, which was a shit show from Trump interrupting, probably because he called Trump a clown and said "Will you shut up, man?" So it can be done. Just not by the spineless sycophants who make up the other GOP candidates.