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There are many ways to describe Donald Trump...we won’t go into the details, or else we would go on longer than the Harvard Leads email chain. But whatever your preferred adjectives to describe “The Donald,” his decision to dip out of this week’s GOP debate may cause many to liken Trump’s behavior to that of a small child. Albeit, a very rich, very gullible, child with...interesting hair.

Normally when dealing with a child throwing a temper tantrum, a person does one of two things: they either coddle the child (which is never a good thing) or they respond with tough love and don’t give into the baby’s manipulative cries. We aren’t parents, but we’re pretty sure that’s baby basics rule number one.

So when Trump announced last week that he was not going to attend the Republican Debate because he had beef with Fox News, and then threatened to hold a rally at the same time, how did other channels respond? Well, let’s just say that the American media would raise some very spoiled toddlers. Instead of letting Trump metaphorically (or literally) cry it out, they hyped up his rally and even broadcasted a split screen of Trump’s event and an empty debate stage in the hours leading up to the debate.

Come to think of it, this is quite inspiring to us here at Flyby. Maybe the next time we want our professor to reschedule an exam or remove an assignment from the syllabus, we’ll take a page out of Donald Trump’s book and threaten to skip class and schedule our own discussion section during the same time. If it worked for Donald, why can’t it work for us?