Stephen Colbert Makes Donald Trump Debate Himself

“The “debate” tonight will be a total disaster”, Trump said in a Twitter post on Thursday morning.

Fox’s Trump-less debate had 12.5 million viewers between 9 and 11 p.m., according to Nielsen.

Trump, who has accused Fox News, and particularly Kelly, of treating him unfairly, said: “When you’re treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights – whether we like it or not”.

He also tweeted Wednesday that the debate – the last before the nation’s first caucuses on February 1 – would garner “low ratings with advertisers and advertising rates dropping like a rock”.

A Fox News spokesperson tells Yahoo that Kelly never referred to Trump as the famous antagonist of the Harry Potter series.

Stephen Colbert has been observing the doughy billionaire for long enough to understand this very simple fact, which is why he held a “debate” on The Late Show Thursday night that pitted Donald Trump against… “They called me a few minutes ago and I said, ‘Hasn’t it already started?'”

Santorum joked that he didn’t want his picture taken with the Trump campaign sign. Contributions to the site will go to The Donald J. Trump Foundation, Trump’s nonprofit charitable organization. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen.

The debate comes just four days before the Iowa caucuses kick off the 2016 nominating contest.

“I don’t think you have to give up your liberty for a false sense of security”, said Sen.

Trump said he chose to boycott the debate after Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes penned a tongue-in-cheek statement that jokingly questioned how the candidate would handle President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran if he couldn’t handle questions from Kelly.

Trump encouraged the crowd to vote on primary day, unless they had decided not to vote for him.

But when The Hill asked Facebook what Trump’s numbers looked like, a spokesperson said, “If [Trump] had participated and been included in the list, he would have ranked number one with twice as many people talking about him as Cruz”. Mr. Trump chose to skip the primetime debate. We can’t run a controlled experiment with two debates, one including Trump and one not.