The Super Bowl ratings were up to 102 million people this year. I’m sure not that many were watching the pre-game show featuring Trump’s interview but even if half were watching it’s a gigantic audience.
What did he do with it? He acted like a child, called names and otherwise made a fool of himself before one of his biggest single audiences ever.
C&L’s John Amato writes:
In 2019, “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan interviewed Trump.
In 2018 Trump refused to be interviewed by NBC.
In 2017 Trump was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. His “good friend.”
In most cases no matter who the interviewees were, they discussed some matters of public and foreign policy. But for eight minutes yesterday, it was just a solid stream of spiteful Trump state-sponsored TV, hosted by his more recent best friend Sean Hannity.
Vox writes, “Trump’s Super Bowl interview was 8 minutes of pettiness and empty braggadocio”
Sean’s role was to set up Trump with only questions that focused on his whining about his political opponents. He Was a Bud Abbott to an utterly unfunny Lou Costello.
Trump was offered plenty of time to continue to call all investigations into his immoral behavior as “hoaxes” and “witch-hunts” and whine how his poor family suffered so much at the hands of the Democrats.
Then Hannity turned to the “lightning round,” which Hannity’ used to let Trump level unfettered attacks on all his political rivals.
It was pathetic and moronic, and once again the American people are left with no information about how their government is actually serving US interests. There were people in this country who actually wanted to hear about Trump’s Middle East peace initiative or the situation in Iran (war or peace? Ya think?) or North Korea… but instead was served up only red meat and childish nicknames.
I wish I could say for sure that his puerile tantrum turned off many more viewers than it please but I’m honestly not sure anymore.
Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million to send President Donald Trump to Florida this weekend so he could host a Super Bowl party for paying guests at his for-profit golf course.
The president’s official schedule shows him spending two and a half hours Sunday evening at a “Super Bowl LIV watch party” at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club — the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing several thousands of dollars more.