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Donald Trump to host a Reddit AMA during the Democratic convention

The Republican presidential candidate is set to host his first ever Ask Me Anything session on Reddit this Wednesday, which is either very dumb or very smart.

Trump's Ask Me Anything session Wednesday coincides with Obama appearance at DNC

Unlike most high-profile AMAs, Trump's Q&A session has not been sanctioned by Reddit. This means that the company won't be responsible for moderating questions posed to the Republican presidential nominee. (Twitter/TheDonaldReddit)

Ask him anything, ladies and gentlemen. Seriously. Anything.

You may not get an answer, butthe entire internet population is legitimately invited to ask Donald Trump anything on Reddit whichshould prove entertaining, at the very least.

TheRepublican presidential nominee's camp on Mondayannouncedthat Trump would be hosting his first ever Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Wednesday starting at 7 p.m. ET, though participants will also be able to submit their questions a full half-hour in advance for consideration.

An email, presentedon Trump/Pence campaign letterhead, was screenshotted and shared by several journalists on Twitter on Monday morning.

It's not unusual for politicians to host RedditAMAs. President Obamaactuallywon a lotof praise in 2012 foropening himself up to the sometimestough crowd of more than 50 million (at the time)Redditors.

Obama'sAMA session was so popular, in fact, that it crashed Reddit's servers with more than 200,000 concurrent visitors at once.To this day, it remains one of the most popularReddit posts in history.

Trump is not Obama, however, and his scheduledAMA is already different from those we've seen from most politicians in the past most notably in that it's slated to take place on a pro-Trump subreddit called r/The_Donaldas opposed to Reddit's official channel for high-profile Q&As.

That means that it won't be promoted or, more importantly,moderated byReddit. The company won't even confirm that it's taking place at this time, which "could mean that it's going ahead without Reddit's official blessing,"according to TechCrunch.

It is of note thatthe usually loquacious Trump has also been silent aboutthe event on Twitter thus far, but a news release announcing theAMA was indeedpublishedto his officialwebsite early Monday evening.

The team behind r/The_Donald has also beenpromoting the event heavily,and news coverage of the impending AMA has inspiredthousands of tweets about why this is either adisastrous or a brilliant move for team Trump.

Of course, it hasn't been lost on anyone that Trump's first ever Reddit AMA is scheduled to take placejust as the Democratic convention hits its peak on Wednesday night.

Trump appears to have chosen forhis buzzworthy, self-run Redditevent the exact time block duringwhich Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden are expected to speak at the DNC which, it could be argued,is kind of likea high school jock throwing a "noparentspresent" house party during the debate club's annualmixer.

Will Hillary Clintonsupporters bail on her composed conventionlive stream forTrump'sunattended, anything-could-happenrager?

Probably not but you can bet that at least a few will be curious enough to drive by the latter soiree, just to see how wild it reallygets.