'Traumatized' Trump is ducking another debate because 'he just got his butt kicked': MSNBC

Reacting to Donald Trump's proclamation that he will not debate Vice President Kamala Harris again before the November election, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist laughed at the former president while saying they weren't surprised since the whole country just witnessed him getting "blown out of the room."

In a Thursday statement on Truth Social and later at a sparsely attended rally in Arizona, Trump stated in no uncertain terms that there would be no third debate while at the same time claiming to have come out on top on Tuesday.

On "Morning Joe," an amused Brzezinski told he co-host, "He must have been so traumatized by being so badly beaten that he just wanted to get it out of his mind, that he'd ever have to be on stage again with Kamala Harris."

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"Yeah, I mean, he objectively got blown out of the room at that debate three nights ago: he knows that, his advisors know that," Geist replied. "Republicans who support him generally have said that on television. Fox News hosts are saying that and he knows he got creamed. Now, he's framing it as the debate was unfair to me."

Noting that the former president compared the debate to a boxing match, Geist continued with that theme and added, "He likes that boxing metaphor about a rematch, somehow framing that as how he won, doesn't need another one. I think the more apt boxing metaphor is he just got his butt kicked in the third or fourth round and he's deciding not to come back out for the next round. Where Kamala Harris is standing in the middle of the ring saying, 'Let's do it again,' and he wants none of it."

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