{"id":56899,"date":"2023-05-13T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56899"},"modified":"2023-05-13T16:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T23:01:05","slug":"ratings-envy-trump-says-that-his-cnn-town-hall-spurred-fox-news-to-cover-his-iowa-cult-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56899","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Envy? Trump Says that His CNN Town Hall Spurred Fox News to Cover His Iowa Cult Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fallout from CNN’s ill-conceived and dreadfully executed town hall with Donald Trump last week is continuing to drench the network in criticism and shame. Rather than producing an informative forum for assessing Trump, it has been widely disparaged as an in-kind contribution to Trump’s campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination for president.<\/p>\n

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There is a growing consensus among media professionals that it was foreseeable mistake for CNN to provide Trump with a platform to spread the same tedious lies he has been promulgating for years about the 2020 presidential election that he says – without a shred of evidence – was “rigged and stolen”<\/em> from him. And on pretty much every other topic Trump regurgitated his familiar distortions of reality, personal insults, and meritless self-aggrandizement. It was so awful that some of the harshest condemnations came from CNN insiders.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: How Horrible Was CNN\u2019s Lie-Riddled Trump Town Hall? Let\u2019s See What CNN Has to Say About It<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another indicator of how badly CNN misjudged this event was the elation it produced in Trump and his allies in right-wing propaganda. They were bursting with joy at what they considered to be a PR triumph for Trump. And Saturday morning Trump bragged<\/a>, in a post on his floundering Twitter scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, that the CNN debacle had led to a major media victory for him…<\/p>\n

“FoxNews called to inform us that they will be airing the entire Iowa Rally tonight. They saw the record numbers done on CNN and want in on the action. Also, just out, I am leading DeSanctimonious by almost 30 points in FLORIDA, and leading Crooked Joe Biden BIG! See you later in Iowa.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, CNN’s numbers were hardly records. They drew about three million viewers, which is not uncommon for special news events on CNN. And while their ratings may have spiked during the town hall, they returned to their prior low standings immediately after the program was over. Still, CNN management was so tunnel-blind that they reprimanded their media correspondent<\/a><\/strong>, Oliver Darcy, for being \u201ctoo emotional\u201d<\/em> in his accurate reporting of the town hall criticism.<\/p>\n

Typical of Trump’s disloyalty and short attention span, just an hour after posting his delight that Fox News would offer live coverage of his Iowa rally, he posted another comment<\/a> telling his cult followers to watch it on Newsmax instead.<\/p>\n

That may be for the best since Trump’s assertion that Fox would carry it has conspicuously not been confirmed by Fox News. This, of course, wouldn’t be the first time that Trump lied about something. According to Newsweek<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday morning that Fox News informed him that the network will air the entire rally, however Fox News didn’t respond to Newsweek’s request on Saturday morning for confirmation that it would broadcast the event.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s more, Fox News has not bothered to promote this alleged rally coverage of Trump’s Iowa affair. However, Fox News has been hyping their live coverage of both an event with Ron DeSantis<\/a> (who coincidentally will be in Iowa on the same day as Trump), and a speech by President Biden<\/a> at Howard University. So the absence of any notice of Trump’s rally is, to say the least, curious.<\/p>\n

It is still possible, of course, that Fox News will air Trump’s rally, despite the fact that haven’t been doing so for several years now. That’s because they have been been rapidly losing viewers since the disclosures of their blatant lying revealed in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit<\/a><\/strong>. And even worse, Fox’s firing of their MAGA, white nationalist heartthrob, Tucker Carlson, has accelerated their ratings disaster<\/a><\/strong>. So they may be in a state of desperation and panic.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Tucker Carlson\u2019s New Twitter Show Announcement is a Steaming Mess of Incoherent Contradictions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, because Trump is incapable of making any statements that contain only a single lie, he also noted in his posting that he is “leading Crooked Joe Biden BIG!”<\/em> For the record, Biden is beating Trump<\/a><\/strong> in most recent general election polls. But if he wants to deceive his followers into believing that he’s running ahead of Biden, let’s let him do so, and they can have a big surprise come election day.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Due to a tornado watch being in effect, Trump has canceled his rally<\/a><\/strong>. Apparently god is “woke.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The fallout from CNN’s ill-conceived and dreadfully executed town hall with Donald Trump last week is continuing to drench the network in criticism and shame. Rather than producing an informative forum for assessing Trump, it has been widely disparaged as an in-kind contribution to Trump’s campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. 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