Trump’s campaign staffers are worried ‘angry Trump’ will show up to debate and self-sabotage

Donald Trump’s campaign staffers are worried “angry Trump” will show up to Tuesday’s presidential debate and “self-sabotage,” according to reports.

Staffers believe that Trump’s performance will be heavily influenced by his mood that evening, and they’ve been speculating whether “happy Trump” or “angry Trump” will show up to the ABC News debate against Kamala Harris,The Guardian reports.

If it’s the latter, they fear it could be a repeat performance of the 2020 presidential debates, where Trump “self sabotaged” and put voters off because of his behavior, the newspaper reports.

In a chaotic debate against Joe Biden in 2020, Trump resorted to making personal attacks about Biden’s family and threw insults at his opponent. Biden kept his cool for the most part, but lost his temper with Trump at one point, telling him: “Will you shut up, man?”

Trump’s team, the paper reports, is “anxious” Trump will veer off message and get personal with Harris.

He has already falsely claimed the vice president just “happened to turn Black” — and his team is now “bracing” themselves, worried he’ll make similar remarks during the debate.

“I didn’t know she was Black,” he said while speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in July.

“She happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?… I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way and all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

His comments sparked fury. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Trump’s comments were “repulsive” and “insulting.”

Other Republicans have also expressed concern about Trump’s behavior come debate day. One