Trump offers to debate Biden ‘ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE’ ahead of State of the Union

Donald Trump vowed to debate Joe Biden “anytime, anywhere, anyplace”, despite refusing to debate any of his opponents in the Republican primaries.

The one-term president has also vowed to conduct a “rapid response” fact check to all statements made by Mr Biden during hisState of the Union address, claiming it was “important for the country to get the truth.”

The annual State of the Union address will take place on Thursday evening, during which the president will seek to lay out the case for his re-election and address a range of pressing issues both domestic and international.

Mr Biden is also expected to tout his achievements in the White House, allay concerns about his age and warn of the threat to democracy posed by Mr Trump – his now all-but-certain rival for the Oval Office in November – and hard-right Republicans across the country.

As usual, Mr Trump, who has been charged with 91 criminal counts, took to his social media platform Truth Social to post angry messages on Wednesday evening, where he promised a “play by play” correction of the address.

“I am pleased to inform you that tomorrow night we will be doing a LIVE, Play by Play, of Crooked Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address. I will correct, in rapid response, any and all inaccurate Statements, especially pertaining to the Border and his Weaponization of the DOJ, FBI, A.G.s, and District Attorneys, to go after his Political Opponent, ME (something never done before in this Country!),” the post read.

“We did this once before to tremendous success — Beating All Records. It is important for the Country to get the TRUTH!”

He later added in a separate post: “It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to