Donald Trump was absent from the first Republican televised debate, but he was omnipresent. The debate lasted two hours: about the ex-president, climate change and Ukraine. Four Insights.
In the world of Donald Trump, only Donald Trump can be first. The former president declined to attend the first televised debate of the Republican presidential nominees on Fox News Wednesday night and instead allowed himself to be interviewed by fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The 46-minute conversation was published on X, formerly Twitter, exactly five minutes before the start of the TV debate. Donald Trump did it, he was the first.