{"id":55040,"date":"2022-10-10T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55040"},"modified":"2022-10-10T13:41:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:41:37","slug":"crybaby-trump-bares-his-ultra-thin-skin-in-tantrum-against-late-night-comedy-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55040","title":{"rendered":"Crybaby Trump Bares His Ultra-Thin Skin in Tantrum Against Late Night Comedy Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor Donald Trump has suffered long from the trials and tribulations of being a malignant narcissist. His inability to cope with trifling jokes at his rather modest expense has been one of his most pronounced personality disorders. By some estimations, it is the reason he chose to enter politics, following jabs by Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD)<\/a><\/strong> (Video below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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During Trump’s occupation of the white House, he refused to attend the charity dinner all four years. That\u2019s because he’s too big a baby to sit through a program where he might be the butt of a few jokes. Which is funny because he doesn’t seem otherwise opposed to being or having a big butt. Last year, for the first time in six years (it was postponed twice due to COVID), the dinner was attended by the President of the United States, Joe Biden. Trevor Noah was the featured comedian, and he didn’t shy away from Trump jokes.<\/p>\n

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On Monday morning, Trump took time away from his brooding and whining about having lost the 2020 election to complain again about the state of comedy in America. In a post on his floundering social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, Trump linked to an article<\/a> on Fox News that roasted late night comedy as a declining format, which Fox blamed on the hosts mocking Trump. He wrote<\/a> that…<\/p>\n

“It was my great honor to have destroyed the ratings of Late Night \u201cComedy\u201d shows. There is nothing funny about the shows, the three hosts have very little talent, and when Jimmy Fallon apologized for having humanized \u201cTrump,\u201d and his ratings soared, the Radical Left forced him to apologize\u2014that was effectively the end of The Tonight Show. In any event, congratulations to Greg Gutfield!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once again, Trump is attempting to take credit for something that he had nothing to do with. He’s also assuming incorrectly that anyone regards his analysis of comedy as having any merit or insight. What’s more, the article he links to is profoundly lacking in any grasp of the TV business or program performance.<\/p>\n

In order to make their argument work, Fox compared the current ratings of the late night shows hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel, to their ratings – not last year – but six years ago, before Trump took office. That’s a long time in TV land. Fox completely ignored the fact that the television landscape had changed significantly during that time frame, with the advent of streaming and other methods of time-shifting. That’s what had the biggest impact on ratings. And it was an impact that occurred across every part of the TV schedule.<\/p>\n

The article asserts instead that the ratings decline was due to the abundance of Trump jokes. However, it contradicts its own premise by noting that Colbert and Kimmel substantially increased their ratings when they told more jokes about Trump. Fallon, on the other hand, lost viewers with his less political style.<\/p>\n

The Fox News article also took this opportunity to promote their own show with right-wing pseudo-comic, Greg Gutfeld. But it is deliberately dishonest to compare his ratings to the network late night shows. Those shows are shown at 11:30pm local time (tape delayed) across the country. Fox News airs Gutfeld at 11:00pm Eastern time nationwide. That means that Gutfeld is on at 8:00pm in Pacific time, 9:00pm Central, etc. Therefore, most of the nation sees Gutfeld in prime time when there are more people watching television. So when the article brags that Gutfeld’s 2.2 million viewers edged out Colbert’s 2.1 million, it’s missing the fact that Colbert actually drew a much higher percentage of the available audience.<\/p>\n

Throughout the article Fox accuses the late night hosts of delivering Democratic talking points. But they never offer a single example to support that charge. If Fox has a problem with the leftward slant of the humor by these hosts, then their real problem is that, as Colbert once noted (at the WHCD in 2006<\/a><\/strong>), “Reality has a well known liberal bias.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The article also ignores its own brazenly partisan perspective. The only quotes the author bothered to include were exclusively from washed up conservative “comedians”<\/em> (Jimmy Failla, Tim Young, Joe Piscopo, Rob Schneider). There was no effort to get any statements from the shows that the author was maligning, their hosts, or their networks.<\/p>\n

That won’t surprise anyone who is familiar with the purposeful dishonesty of Fox News. And it’s affirmation of the popular meme that has circulate for many years that says “I get my news from Comedy Central and my comedy from Fox News.”<\/em><\/p>\n