In an interview with CNBC on Monday morning, Trump said the presidential debates should feature no moderators, because he knows before the debates are even held that they would be very unfair to him.
"I'm going to be treated very, very unfairly by the moderators," he said, adding: "I think we should have a debate with no moderators just Hillary and I sitting there, talking."
"It's going to be a very unfair debate," Trump told CNBC. "And I can see it happening right now because everyone's saying that he was soft on Trump. Well now, the new person is going to be really hard on Trump just to show the establishment what he can do."
The problem? Trump already agreed to take part in the debates and gave the existing moderators Fox News's Chris Wallace, NBC's Lester Holt, ABC's Martha Raddatz and CNN's Anderson Cooper a thumbs-up.
"I like them," Trump said last week in a Q&A with reporters aboard his plane. "I respect the moderators. I do respect them."
Donald Trump calls for no debate moderators a week after praising them