If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to facing Donald Trump in a debate, it’s that at some point, he’s going to say something wild.

But honestly, that has very little to do with the setting. It’s not so much because it’s a debate, it’s just that he can’t help but say ridiculous things. Take his last press conference, for example. It took place outside the courtroom where he’d just lost his appeal to overturn the decision that found him liable for sexual assault.

During that long tirade, he suggested that a picture that had been entered into evidence might have been generated by AI. That really wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but he’d already admitted that exact picture was real before.

If he can’t keep track of his lies in a legal setting, how is he supposed to tone himself down during a debate, where he’s literally trying to sell himself as presidential material? The man will do anything to win.

One Republican political strategist, Tricia McLaughlin, says she “prays” that Trump is “disciplined” as he takes the stage against a veteran debater like Kamala Harris. But, she said, if Trump “feels like he’s backed into a corner and feels like it’s three on one, that could be a problem.” She is referring to not just Harris, but the two debate hosts for the televised ABC event, David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Former House Speaker (and fellow philanderer) Newt Gingrich tried to get out in front of possible mishaps by predicting that Harris would try to “bait” Trump by “demeaning” the man who’s called her Comrade Kamala every time he’s mentioned her for a month and a half.

“I think, I hope, what he’ll do is be a guy who’s been a real president — while she has been kind of a semi-vice president — and a guy who knows all the world leaders, and a guy who has been through an enormous amount, and just be calm and steady and stick to the real differences,” Gingrich said, eliciting tremendous laughter from your humble author.

Giving us a tiny preview of what we might expect at the debate when he confessed last month that he was thinking about skipping it entirely, he asked on social media “Will panelist Donna Brazile give the questions to the Marxist Candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? Will Kamala’s best friend, who heads up ABC, do likewise? Where is Liddle’ George Slopadopolus hanging out now? Will he be involved. They’ve got a lot of questions to answer!!!”

They don’t, actually, Donald. You do. At a debate against a grown-up person shaped nothing like a keyboard.