--- title: Bernie Sanders Is In Favor Of A Debate With Donald Trump description: Donald Trump told Jimmy Kimmel that he would "love to" debate Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Sanders is on board. canonical: https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-27T09:34:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:02.467Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bernie Sanders Says He's In Favor Of Debating Donald Trump og:description: He says it would ideally be held "in some big stadium in California" og:url: https://time.com/4350296/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-debate-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bernie Sanders Says He's In Favor Of Debating Donald Trump twitter:description: He says it would ideally be held "in some big stadium in California" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bernie Sanders Is In Favor Of A 'Very Interesting' Debate With Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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On Wednesday night, Donald Trump [told](http://time.com/4349162/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-debate/) the talk show host that he would “love to” debate Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — noting, in Trumpian fashion, that the televised program would “have such high ratings.” A day later, Kimmel asked Sanders his thoughts on the matter, and Sanders confirmed that he was on board. “You made it possible for us to have a very interesting debate about two guys who view the world very, very differently,” Sanders told Kimmel Thursday night. The Vermont Senator said that he hoped the proposed debate would be “in some big stadium here in California,” where, in less than two weeks, Sanders will face Hillary Clinton in the state’s important primary. (Three days ago, Clinton’s campaign [announced](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-fox-debate-california/) that she would not participate in a Fox News debate between the two Democratic candidates.) ## Transcript If we could raise 10 or 15 million dollars for charity, which would be a very appropriate amount. I'd love to debate Bernie, actually . >> Mr. Trump, Obamacare is one of the things you call a disaster. Complete disaster. What I'd like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state. I am on the health education labor committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act, but right now what we have to deal with is the fact that 29 million people still have no health insurance. And then we have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves, and I will do that. Through a different system. But my moving forward, rallying the American people, I do believe we should have healthcare for all. We are doing it the old- fashioned way, 650, 000 individual contributions. I feel a little bit foolish. PEople are offering me millions and millions of dollars. When you're in first place You can collect so much money. And I keep turning him down. I feel like, am I a fool? I feel very foolish. Nobody up here can address the major crisis facing our country unless millions of people begin to stand up to the billionaire class. There's no better word to describe our leader and our administration than the word what? Stupid. Stupid, these are stupid people. I am asking you to be part of a political revolution. All the Ivy League that I have, the Wharton School of Finance, somehow they've never come up with a better word to describe what we're going through. Where millions of people begin to stand up and finally say enough is enough. This great country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. And we will make America great again. Thank you. Thank you very much. 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