Trump Now Demanding That Biden Take Drug Test Before Debate

Donald Trump is so nervous about his debate with President Biden on Thursday that he is now demanding that the President take a drug test before the debate. Trump says that he'll gladly take one, too, but no drug tests are going to happen. Instead, Trump is setting up an excuse for a potentially poor performance at the debate so that he won't have to admit defeat if Biden over-performs on Thursday. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

Listen to our videos in an audio format by subscribing to our podcast

Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected!

Connect with Farron on Twitter

*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos.

Well folks, tomorrow night is the night Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to have their very first presidential debate of this election season. And Donald Trump is already trying desperately to convince the public that President Biden is somehow going to cheat by being on drugs. That's right. On Monday of this week, Donald Trump came out on truth social and demanded once again that President Biden be drug tested prior to the event. But don't worry, because Donald Trump also says he'll gladly submit to a drug test. Here's what Trump put on truth, social, plain and simple drug test for crooked. Joe Biden. I would also immediately agree to one, well, there you have it. I mean, pretty cut and dry. He's demanding. President Biden take a drug test. He says he'll agree to one as well. And there's a couple things about that I wanna point out. First and foremost, you can take a drug test without President Biden taking one too, by the way, right?

Like you don't have to wait for Biden to agree to take one before you take one yourself. So this doesn't have to be a conditional thing. If you wanna prove to the public that you're not all jacked up on something, feel free to take a drug test. Not to mention the fact that the kind of drug test that you would need to do, because obviously President Biden's not on street drugs. He would be, if Republicans are accurate, right? Dr. Ronnie Johnson, Sean Hannity, all these other people that have called for drug tests, uh, he would probably be on some kind of prescription. In that case, a simple urine test probably would not be able to detect it. And instead, you would need to perform a blood test, which would take weeks. You know, you probably go rush it, maybe get it done in a couple of days, but you're not gonna get instant results like you would with a pee stick.

So I don't even think you know how drug tests work, Donald, but again, you are free to take one, right? Like go get your blood drawn. Now, we'll see if we can get the results done before Thursday evening, but it ain't gonna happen. And it's specifically is the fact that it's not going to happen that Donald Trump is depending on after all, I mean if President Biden did actually do a drug test showing that he's not on something, then Trump's whole talking point would disappear, right? He'd have nothing to blame a potentially pathetic performance at the debate on, he couldn't say, well, my opponent was jacked up. Trump doesn't want Biden to take a drug test because that would eliminate all the doubt if he doesn't take the test, Trump can keep making these claims and then of course his base will blindly believe it. But here's another part of this. Even if President Biden were as, again, Trump and Sean Hannity and Ronnie Jackson have suggested even if he is pumped full of something, um, that that's, that's not technically illegal, right? If he gets it from his doctor,

Whether it's, you know, Adderall or some kind of other amphetamine type thing, that's not illegal, okay? This is not professional sports, okay? We don't have to drug test for performance enhancing drugs to determine if Biden's gonna be suspended for the next few debates, right? This isn't baseball. It's not football or basketball. This is presidential politics. And not that I'm saying I want Biden to be hopped up on Adderall, but even if he were, again, if his doctor prescribes it for him, that that, that is totally not even illegal. It's not even against the debate rules like Biden could rip a line off his podium in the middle of the debate, and that's technically not against the debate rules. Now obviously we don't want him doing that, nor do I think he would. But the point is, this is all Donald Trump's coping mechanism to prepare his base for when he loses the debate.