Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will “absolutely” commit to three presidential debates with Hillary Clinton, but he suggested that he’d try to renegotiate the terms first.

“I will absolutely do three debates,” Trump said in a phone interview with Time. “I want to debate very badly. But I have to see the conditions.”

He went on to imply that he may try to change the terms of the debates.

“I renegotiated the debates in the primaries, remember? They were making a fortune on them and they had us in for three and a half hours and I said that’s ridiculous,” Trump said.

Apparently, Trump thinks he has to negotiate with the networks (“they”).  But not so.

Trump said he also reserved the right to object to the Commission on Presidential Debates’ choice of moderators, telling Time that “certain moderators would be unacceptable, absolutely.”

A commission official told Time that while certain “fine points” could be negotiated, the format as announced was non-negotiable.

Trump is feeling his oats, but he has none.  Hillary is up by ten points right now, and would win in a landslide if the election was today.  Now, that might close up a little by September 26 (the time of the first debate), but Trump is really always behind Hillary and striving to beat the 45% mark.  He needs these debates more than Hillary does.