President Joe Biden’s campaign accused former President Donald Trump of “playing games” after he went rogue and independently announced a third debate with Biden following the candidates agreeing to two debates.

Biden took to social media on Wednesday morning to challenge Trump to two debates, which the former president quickly accepted. Debates are set for June 27 on CNN and September on ABC. After these events were agreed to, Trump appeared to go rogue, announcing a third debate in October on Fox News — without any word from Biden’s camp.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden-Harris 2024 Chair, released a statement accusing Trump of “playing games” and casting doubt on whether he’ll actually show up to the first debate.

“Donald Trump has a long history of playing games with debates: complaining about the rules, breaking those rules, pulling out at the last minute, or not showing up at all – which he’s done repeatedly in all three cycles he’s run for president. He said he would debate President Biden anytime, anywhere, anyplace,” Dillon wrote. “In fact, he’s said and posted it dozens of times with varying degrees of comprehension and basic grammar. President Biden made his terms clear for two one-on-one debates, and Donald Trump accepted those terms. No more games. No more chaos, no more debate about debates. We’ll see Donald Trump on June 27th in Atlanta – if he shows up.”

The former president had earlier taken to Truth Social to say he would “hereby accept” a debate offer from Fox News. The event, according to him, was to be moderated by Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier. Unlike the other quickly-announced debates, there was no immediate announcement from Biden’s team.

“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that I hereby accept debating Crooked Joe Biden on FoxNews. The date will be Wednesday, October 2nd,” Trump wrote. “The Hosts will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Thank you, DJT!”

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