On Wednesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel asked Donald Trump a question from Bernie Sanders — a Trump-Sanders debate may arise out of it, seriously — and on Thursday's show, Kimmel asked Sanders a Trump question: "Dear Crazy Bernie, will you run [as] a third-party communist against Hillary, or are you a coward and a loser?" That wasn't the actual question, but what Trump really proposed was essentialy the same. "Bernie, you have been treated very unfairly," Trump began. "Will you run as an independent when Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and the Democratic Party bosses steal this nomination away from you?"
"Well, I think there's a little self-service there for Donald Trump," Sanders said. And then he poured on the sarcasm, finally ending with his final answer: "Tell him what I hope will happen is that, in fact, I will run against him as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, and if I do, we're going to beat him, and beat him bad. You can tell him that." "I don't think I'll see him again," Kimmel replied. But if the debate really happens — and I'd say it won't, but who knows with this election? — Sanders can tell Trump himself. Peter Weber
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