Donald Trump didn’t show up to the first Republican debate last month and has said he won’t participate in any future ones, robbing voters of the chance to see how he would answer substantive questions from moderators and handle confrontation from fellow candidates for the GOP nomination. But what about a debate with Meghan Markle, the former Suits actor who married Prince Harry in 2018? The Meghan Markle who does not now and has not ever held public office, and who we can say with near-absolute certainty will not be jumping into the GOP primary in this or any other lifetime? Well, that’s someone Trump would show up to a debate stage for. Happily, in fact!
In an interview that aired Wednesday, conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump if he would debate Meghan and Prince Harry, who “don’t like you much,” for the ratings. Naturally, the ex-president’s first instinct was to scoff at the idea that the pair doesn’t like him—even though they clearly don’t—and then suggest that the late Queen of England was a huge fan of his, which he’s done before. “I don’t know that they don’t like me,” Trump told Hewitt. “I said that I don’t think they are very appropriate, what they’re saying, what they’re doing, and I didn’t like the way she dealt with the queen. I became very friendly with the queen. She was an incredible woman. At 95, she was so sharp. She was 100%. When you watch Biden, you say, this is a different planet. But they treated her with great disrespect, and I didn’t like it. And I didn’t like the idea that they were getting US security when they came over here. No, I think it’s not a good situation going on with the two of them, but I didn’t know that they don’t like me.”
Reminded of the actual question, i.e. would he debate the couple, Trump responded, “Oh, if you want to set it up, let’s set it up. Let’s go do something. I’ll, I’d love to debate her. I would love it. I disagree so much with what they’re doing.”
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A Trump vs. Markle debate, is, of course, about as likely to occur as “Infrastructure Week.” But the ex-president is a carnival barker at heart and could obviously not pass up the opportunity to pretend that, yeah, maybe this will actually happen. Of course, it’s not hard to see why Trump would rather engage with this absurd scenario than actually show up on the GOP debate stage, where he would no doubt be asked about the many criminal charges against him and likely incriminate himself. (Here we have to tell you that Trump has pleaded not guilty to everything.)
As for whether the former guy will participate in the general election debates*, that is not clear at this time. In 2020, he demanded that Joe Biden be tested for performance-enhancing drugs before he would agree to show up to the first debate, and while that precondition was obviously not met, Trump nevertheless made an appearance anyway (possibly in an effort to give people COVID). Then he skipped the next one in favor of a town hall with Savannah Guthrie, during which he said QAnon had made some good points that he “strongly” agreed with. So, truly, who knows.
*Assuming he wins the nomination, which, against all odds, he seems poised to do.
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