President Joe Biden has challenged former President Donald Trump to two debates before November’s general election.

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in a video released Wednesday. “Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice… I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”

In addition to the video, Biden deputy campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon sent the Commission on Presidential Debates a letter advising members the president would not be taking part in their events, and outlining its proposed timeline for the debates.

“The Biden-Harris campaign is proposing that the first debate be in late June, after Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is likely to be over and after President Biden returns from meeting with world leaders at the G7 Summit,” Biden communications director Michael Tyler told reporters Wednesday, outlining the reasoning behind the proposed dates. “A second presidential debate would occur in September prior to the beginning of early voting. We also propose a vice presidential debate to occur in late July after the Republicans nominate their vice presidential candidate under the same parameters we outline below.”

The Trump campaign quickly jumped on Biden’s announcement. Trump campaign senior adviser Steven Cheung called the video announcement a “total disaster.”

“In a super short 14 second video, the Biden campaign needed to do 5 jump cuts because Crooked Joe couldn’t deliver a clean reading. Total disaster,” Cheung posted in X.

The former president has started taking an empty podium to some of his rallies in his own debate challenge to the incumbent.

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It is unclear if the general election debates will proceed amid complaints from the Trump campaign about fairness, with Biden on Wednesday proposing June and September debates without the commission.