Ever since the first Republican debate, Donald Trump has been at war with Megyn Kelly. The Fox News host moderated the first debate back in August, and opened with questions asking Trump about derogatory comments he’d made about women.
After the debate was over, Trump complained about the moderation and Kelly in particular, lobbing barely disguised misogynist insults at her, and then, of course, claiming he’d done no such thing.
The fued has continued, at a low level, for the last few months, but flared up again recently when Fox announced that Kelly would be moderating the next Fox News debate this Thursday. In response, Trump threatened to boycott the event. He even launched a Twitter poll this afternoon asking his followers whether he should go to the event.
It looked a lot like typical Trump bluster. And Fox responded by mocking Trump for being unwilling to stand up to their moderator of choice.
“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,” a spokesperson for the network said today, in a statement that looked like an attempt to out-Trump Trump.
But now it looks like Trump wasn’t bluffing. This evening, Trump’s campaign manager told The Washington Post that Trump is “definitely not participating in the Fox News debate.”
I suppose it’s still possible that he could change his mind, but that sounds pretty definitive.
Trump isn’t just the GOP frontrunner. He’s also been the main draw at the debates so far. What will a Trump-less debate look like? Will anyone tune in? We’re about to find out.
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