In chaotic remarks to the press at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after several days off the campaign trail, former President Donald Trump says that he’s agreed to three separate debate dates against Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Trump also used the opportunity on Thursday to express a laundry list of complaints, grievances and falsehoods in his scattershot responses to reporter questions, seeking to sell a dark vision of America under Democrats.

Trump said that he would debate on "Fox on Sept. 4, NBC on Sept. 10, and ABC on Sept. 25." Trump appeared to mix up the debates for the NBC and ABC debates -- his campaign later clarified that the proposed date for the ABC face-off is Sept. 10, which was the date that Trump and President Joe Biden had already agreed upon in May of this year, while the one on NBC would be Sept. 25.

ABC News later confirmed that its debate will take place on Sept. 10, writing on social media: "ABC News will host qualifying presidential candidates to debate on September 10 on ABC. Vice President Harris and former President Trump have both confirmed they will attend the ABC debate."

Trump had previously cast doubt that he would take part in the ABC debate, citing his litigation against network anchor George Stephanopoulos as well as saying it couldn't happen because Biden was no longer the nominee. On Saturday, he wrote on his Truth Social platform: "I’ll see her on September 4th or, I won’t see her at all."

Harris has accused Trump of being afraid to debate her, replying on social media: "It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space.' I'll be there on September 10th, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there."

“So we have those three dates and those networks, they’re very anxiously awaiting that date and those dates,” Trump said, adding that his campaign has spoken to the heads of those networks and it has been confirmed, save for “some minor details," like locations.

"Audience, some location, which city would we put it into, all things that will be settled very easily, I think it will be very easy," the Republican ex-president added. 

“The other side has to agree to the terms, they may or may not agree,” Trump said before railing against Harris for not taking part in media interviews since taking over the Democratic nomination.

That was far from the only attack on political enemies that Trump lobbed in his more than hourlong press conference. The ex-president attacked the mental acuity of both Biden and Harris; ranted about wars in Europe and the Middle East and the price of bacon; demeaned Jewish people who vote for Democrats; made false claims about Democratic abortion policies; and claimed that he had a larger crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021, than Martin Luther King Jr. did when he delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

He also expressed his belief that the country is on the brink of both a depression and World War III.

Trump attacked Harris of being "incompetent" and "not smart enough to do a news conference" and defended his decision not to be out on the campaign trail more, charging that he's "leading by a lot" despite a rash of polling showing Harris tied or leading the Republican ex-president. He also decried the process by which Biden was replaced on the ticket by Harris and repeatedly mispronounced her first name.

He falsely called Harris the Biden administration's "border czar" -- her role was far more limited, aimed at addressing root causes of migration -- incorrectly stated that she "couldn’t pass her bar exam" -- she failed on her first attempt, per The New York Times, but was admitted in 1990, the year after she graduated law school -- and says he "hasn’t recalibrated strategy at all" in response to the vice president becoming the new Democratic presidential nominee, accusing her of being "weak on crime," in favor of "open borders" and "worse than Biden."

And if one happens to be a Jewish American voting for Harris, Trump echoed his oft-used refrain that they "should have their head examined."

If Trump had won the 2020 election, Trump baselessly charged that Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine would never have happened, the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel would not have transpired, and contended there would have been no inflation under his watch. 

"A lot of great things would have happened," Trump said. "But now you have millions and millions of dead people, and you have people dying financially because they can't buy bacon. They can't buy food. They can't buy groceries. They can't do anything. And they're living horribly in our country right now. With all of that being said, I think it's very important to have debates."

Trump also said that the country is "very, very sick," adding: "You saw the other day with the stock market crash and that was just the beginning. That was just the beginning. It's going to get worse. It's going to get a lot worse in my opinion." (While stocks sank dramatically on Monday, talk of a potential stock market crash appeared to be short-lived. Wall Street has rallied in the days since.) 

On abortion, Trump charged that Democrats are "radical" and want to codify post-birth abortions -- no state has laws allowing infanticide -- while teasing that he will hold a future news conference to announce how he will vote on Florida's abortion referendum, which is on the ballot in November. 

And regarding abortion as an issue in this year's election? "I don't think it's a big factor anymore," Trump said, despite a Kaiser Family Foundation survey suggesting that 1 in every 8 voters consider it their top issue and half of registered voters say this election will have a "major impact" on abortion.

Trump also falsely alleged that nobody died during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol -- multiple people died in the attack and in the days after, including Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by police while trying to force her way into the House chamber -- and claimed that the crowd who gathered to hear him speak at the Ellipse that day was bigger than that of Dr. King's.

"Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not, we had more," Trump said. "And they said he had a million people but I had 25,000 people, but when you look at the exact same picture, and everything's the same, because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back to ... from Lincoln, to Washington, and we actually had more people. They said I had 25,000 and he had a million people. And I'm OK with it because I liked Dr. Martin Luther King."

Bernice King, Dr. King's daughter, called the claim "absolutely not true," adding: "I really wish that people would stop using my father to support fallacy."

Harris' campaign characterized Trump's press conference as a "public meltdown" and chided him for his light campaign schedule compared to that of the Democratic ticket, whic has been barnstorming swing states all week.

"He hasn’t campaigned all week. He isn’t going to a single swing state this week," a release from Harris' campaign reads. "But he sure is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting big crowds across the battlegrounds. The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon. He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he’s off the campaign trail."