Despite polls suggesting that most Americans support including third party candidates in upcoming debates, Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump this week said the forums should only feature himself and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

The businessman, in a Thursday interview on Larry King's "Politicking" show, contended that the presidential debates should just feature the two major party's nominees.

"I'd rather it be Hillary and myself because we're the only two with a chance of winning," he said when asked if Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson should also take the debate stage.

Trump, meanwhile, said he doesn't believe Johnson's recent Aleppo gaffe -- in which the Libertarian candidate asked "what is Aleppo?" when questioned about how he would address issues in Syria -- will have much of an impact in the 2016 presidential race.

"I don't know that it will hurt him that much, frankly," he said. "But, he didn't know that -- I saw that. Maybe it will hurt him a little bit, but I think he'll scoot by. Look, he's not too much of a factor. They seem to be going down, the other two...we'll see what happens."

Polls released last week, however, found support for allowing Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein to join Trump and Clinton on the debate stage.

A Suffolk University/USA Today poll, for example, found that more than three quarters of likely voters surveyed said they believe third party candidates should be included in the presidential debates this fall.

A Morning Consult survey echoed these findings, with more than half of registered voters saying they believe Johnson should partake in the event and 47 percent contending that Stein should.

The Commission on Presidential Debates' rules require participants to be constitutionally eligible, show evidence of ballot access and win at least 15 percent of the vote in five selected national polls.

According to RealClearPolitics' polling averages, Johnson has won about 9 percent of the vote, while Stein has received just 3 percent.

The first 2016 general election presidential debate is scheduled to take place on Monday, Sept. 26 at Hofstra University.