Donald Trump Wants $5 Million to Appear on a CNN Debate Because of Course He Does

Donald Trump loves to talk about Donald Trump, which is not a problem because everyone loves to hear about Donald Trump. His fans love to bask in his increasingly-thinly-veiled fascism, and his anti-fans love to roll their eyes and gnash their teeth at whatever horrific idea he has just endorsed. You, reading this right now, are part of the problem, and so am I. Whatever else he is, the puffy-faced former TV show host is the hottest thing on the internet since a cat first adorably mashed a keyboard, and he knows it.

So it's no surprise that, while speaking to a rally in Georgia on Monday, Trump suggested, according to NBC News, that CNN should pay him $5 million to appear at the network's next GOP debate.

"How about I tell CNN, who doesn't treat me properly. I'm not gonna do the next debate, OK? I won't do the debate unless they pay me $5 million, all of which goes to wounded warriors or goes to vets," he said.

Trump previously wanted $10 million to be donated to charity in order for him to appear at CNN's first presidential debate, and it's become fashionable for the more anti-establishment GOP candidates to treat the networks not as the medium by which their message reaches potential voters, but as adversaries. Trump claimed responsibility for forcing CNBC to shorten its debate, and the Republican Party as a whole slammed that network for the moderators' supposedly biased questions.

The next GOP debate is scheduled to be held in Las Vegas on December 15. Trump is going to be there and we'll have to listen to him, again.

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