--- title: Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates,' May Skip Next One description: He may skip the next debate in Salt Lake City canonical: https://time.com/4256083/donald-trump-skip-republican-debate-salt-lake-city/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-11T19:04:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:50:40.501Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates,' May Skip Next One og:description: He may skip the next debate in Salt Lake City og:url: https://time.com/4256083/donald-trump-skip-republican-debate-salt-lake-city/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2843551ffe2909f/69888ab72dce01525b9e82a1/trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates,' May Skip Next One twitter:description: He may skip the next debate in Salt Lake City twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2843551ffe2909f/69888ab72dce01525b9e82a1/trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates'  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 11, 2016 7:04 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN, Salem Media Group and the Washington Times at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Fla., March 10, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN, Salem Media Group and the Washington Times at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Fla., March 10, 2016.Wilfredo Lee—AP  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 11, 2016 7:04 PM UTC Donald Trump believes that the GOP has “had enough” debates and says [he might not show up to the next one.](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/03/11/trump-debates-florida-utah-republican-race/81637216/) “We’ve had enough debates in my opinion,” Trump told reporters Friday morning after the 12th Republican debate, according to _USA Today_. The GOP has another debate scheduled for March 21st in Salt Lake City, but Trump said he hadn’t known about it and might not go. The business mogul said he was happy with the Miami debate, which [was less rowdy than previous contests](http://time.com/4255204/republican-debate-miami-twelfth-miami-analysis/). “It would be nice to finish off with this one,” he said. Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates,' May Skip Next One ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4256083/donald-trump-skip-republican-debate-salt-lake-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4256083/donald-trump-skip-republican-debate-salt-lake-city/"},"headline":"Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates'","datePublished":"2016-03-11T19:04:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:50:40.501Z","description":"He may skip the next debate in Salt Lake City","url":"https://time.com/4256083/donald-trump-skip-republican-debate-salt-lake-city/","keywords":["GOP","Donald Trump","Debates"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2843551ffe2909f/69888ab72dce01525b9e82a1/trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2843551ffe2909f/69888ab72dce01525b9e82a1/trump8.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Wilfredo Lee—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4256083/donald-trump-skip-republican-debate-salt-lake-city/","name":"Donald Trump: 'We've Had Enough Debates'"}}]}] ```