2016 Sept 25^th

Tomorrow’s debate is moving from comedy to farce. This 90 minute debate, predicted to be viewed by 100 million people worldwide, will have commentators starting their commentating, in some cases, a full three hours prior to the debate’s starting time.

Hillary Clinton has already drawn first blood. She has said that she will give Mark Cuban a front row seat in the debate audience. Mark Cuban is a multi-billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and various other properties and has said publicly that “Donald Trump (as president) scares the **** out of me.” Mark Cuban is no Donald Trump fan and, of course, vice versa.

Clinton’s invitation to Mark Cuban to sit in the front row of the debate was instantly accepted and it produced the hoped for eruption from Donald Trump, who, once again could not let an opportunity to act like a 10 year-old be lost. For Trump it has to be “if you do “X” then I’ll do”X+1” right back at you. To prove he hasn’t lost the capacity to be childish, Donald Trump has invited Gennifer Flowers, the erstwhile Bill Clinton paramour, to sit in the front row of the debate too, so there. It’s obvious that the Mark Cuban invitation got under Trump’s thin skin.

Does the Clinton camp now invite Marla Maples to join Gennifer Flowers? Marla would love the opportunity for a little Trump payback. To refresh your memory, Marla Maples was the primary extra-curricular activity that led to the dissolution of Trump’s first marriage to Ivana Trump. Marla was impregnated by the Donald and she gave birth to Tiffany Trump Oct 13, 1993 but no marriage occurred until December of that year and the marriage dissolved, rather acrimoniously, six years later. Misconduct was alleged by all sides.

Marla Maples has not become a Donald Trump fan. She says regarding Trump’s presidential ambitions, “I will not be silent. I will feel it is my duty as an American citizen to tell the people what he is really like.”

However, Ms. Maples sees her duty as an American citizen there must be literally dozens of other women scorned by Donald Trump who might be willing to comment on his character. He has admitted to so many bouts of venereal disease that he believes it is equivalent to service in Vet Nam. Few who served in that action would agree with him. Perhaps filling the debate seats with scorned Trump lady friends wouldn’t be all that difficult. Perhaps it would rattle the Donald but I doubt it.

If these women held up oversized Viagra advertisements that might have a different effect.