Every election year brings with it a new round of debates. And with new debates come new rules. Every debate season, some candidate finds a way to skirt the rules in their own favor, so the networks and mediators do their best to address it with additional regulations.

This year is no different.

At this point, Fox News, which is hosting the first Republican debate, has instituted a policy that there are to be no Trump “surrogates” in the so-called “spin room” after the event. The spin room, of course, is where commentators gather to say wonderful things about how well their respective candidates did.

But Trump is skipping the debate. That means the presence of anyone speaking on behalf of Trump will be based entirely on how bad they think the other candidates did. That’s not the point of the roundtable.

It only makes sense that a candidate who refuses to debate doesn’t get to have someone in a room dedicated to talking up their debate performance. He is too much of a coward to face the other candidates, so he can wait to have people pat him on the back until he’s actually debated.

Kimberly Guilfoyle takes issue with that. The ex-Fox star, engaged to Donald Trump Junior, went to Newsmax to talk about just how unhappy she was.

“I think, unfortunately, for a media company that I used to work for, you would expect better. But this is just really pathetic messaging. They’re just stepping out on themselves here. It’s backfiring spectacularly. It’s taking distraction away from the focus on the debate.”

Yet another example of the pity party Team Trump has been throwing for themselves and the former president.

In actual fact, the policy from Fox is nothing like what Guilfoyle described. Bret Baier, who will be hosting and co-moderating the debate, stated “That’s not the case at all. As far as in the spin room, it is the candidates on the stage and their delegates. And then if any media organization who’s in the spin room invites one of these surrogates, a Trump surrogate, they are welcome to come. They have to get the invite from the media person in the room.”

That seems pretty straightforward. Kim’s response? “I’d just like to see somebody try to stop Don Jr. and me from going someplace.”

That’s why these things have security, Kimmy.

LOL at Kimberly Guilfoyle threatening Fox News over her and that loser Don Jr. attending the debate…what a joke of a person (and it's sad cause she wasn't always…look up Whipple case, she was once respectable and decent.) pic.twitter.com/ywgilDOfZr

— Nicole Hickman James (@nicolejames) August 23, 2023