On Tuesday, President Trump will debate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Asked how debate preparations are going, President Trump told reporters on Sunday that several high-profile Republicans are helping him prepare for the major event.
According to President Trump, both former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani impersonated Joe Biden as they prepared to debate the president.
The president also assured that he was not joking when he proposed that he and Joe Biden be tested for doping substances before Tuesday’s debate.
“I’m not kidding,” Trump said. “I mean, I’m willing to take a drug test. I think he should too.”
The president said he noticed that Biden’s debate performance against Bernie Sanders was much better than his earlier performance against “Pocahontas and Kamala Harris.”
“And I said, ‘How did he get to a place where everything was OK after this terrible performance?'” Trump said.
“People say he took performance-enhancing drugs. Many people have said this. A lot of people wrote that,” Trump said.
When a reporter asked the president who said that, he told him to “check the internet.”
Asked how much time he spends preparing for the debate, Trump replied that he was busy “running the country.”
While Biden certainly has his senior moments, some Republicans fear the president is falling into the classic incumbent trap of under-preparing for the first debate. At least it’s nice to know the president has some tough Republicans playing the role of his opponent.
Tuesday’s debate will be hosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace will moderate the 90-minute debate, which begins at 9 p.m.
