The Donald is blunt…
“Piers opened STRONG with me, then “died.” He now only draws flies.”
TalkTV finally debuted last night, and aside from a brief audio syncing glitch during Tom Newton-Dunn’s opening monologue, Murdoch’s latest experiment enjoyed a slick start. TV isn’t easy: consistently high production values this early is no mean feat – as GB News will attest. Time will tell whether audiences will stick around for the long haul…
Inevitably Piers Morgan’s big sit-down with Trump is getting all the attention. The full interview has been split over two nights, with the latter half – the part where Trump allegedly storms out – airing this evening. Even so, last night’s segment still featured nuggets of gold. A particular highlight came when Morgan asked whether Boris had deliberately blocked Morgan’s interview with Trump just before the 2019 UK election:
“Well, that’s true. I mean you knew that. And I was over there as his guest, so if he asks me not to do that I have to do that… I don’t know [why]. I like him. I’ve always liked him. I think he’d getting a little bit liberal, a little bit green…”
The kind of comments sorely missing from our Twitter feeds nowadays. Maybe that’ll change again soon…
Donald Trump on Morgan’s censoring of his full interview…
“Piers got caught red-handed, and the interview that I rather enjoyed doing is now in shambles. I especially enjoyed talking about the 2020 Presidential Election Fraud and his big mistake on the way he walked off his show when the “weatherman” made him look like a fool. I never walked out of my interviews with him, he’s easy, but he tried to make it look like I did. Unlike others, I don’t believe Piers is a complete slimeball, but he lost a lot of credibility. Interestingly, many of the Fake News Media outlets are covering his mistake. They view it as potentially fraudulent, and so do I. Piers is off to a bad start, but thanks to me, he may get a final burst of big ratings before it all comes crashing down!”
In January 2021 Twitter removed Donald Trump from the platform for “incitement of violence“:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
Putin and Russia’s state agencies have not just incited violence, they have committed it and started an unprovoked war. The Russian state’s Twitter accounts pump out lies and support for the war:
Address by the President of the Russian Federation https://t.co/jRvdLQE8TJ
— President of Russia (@KremlinRussia_E) February 24, 2022
💬#Zakharova: We call on everyone to stop whipping up hysteria.
— MFA Russia 🇷🇺 (@mfa_russia) February 16, 2022
❗️ Peace in the region is threatened not by any reviews of Russian and Belarusian defence capability but by the Western steps to build up NATO forces on the Union State border and to supply weapons to Kiev. pic.twitter.com/iRziYDisYG
❗️#Lukashevich: #NATO countries in essence took #Ukraine 🇺🇦 hostage to use as a "bridgehead" against Russia 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/rbse2x2tAR
— Russian Mission OSCE (@RF_OSCE) February 24, 2022
Yet Putin is a blue ticked verified account operating freely. Is starting a war and tweeting misinformation about it not a violation of the Terms of Service? Choose a side, Twitter…
Populist blonde right-wingers, look away now: Last night Trump was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly where he admitted he’d received his booster, only to get booed by parts of the audience. To his credit, Trump launched into a passionate defence of the vaccine programme and told anti-vaxxers in the audience that they’re playing into their opponents’ hands:
Meanwhile, co-conspirators will undoubtedly have seen the clip of last night’s darts match, during which the audience started loudly singing “stand up if you hate Boris!”:
As if things could not get worse for our Prime Minister, here’s the crowd chanting “Stand up if you hate Boris” at the 2022 Darts World Championship at Alexandra Palace in London tonight. pic.twitter.com/N0kVvUuQ9t
— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) December 20, 2021
It seems the darts crowd reflect the mood of the country – a new poll out today puts the PM’s net approval on -48…
Unsurprisingly, Farage’s interview with Trump last night was box office for GB News. Figures seen by Guido show the interview pulled in Farage’s highest ever viewer count, and the largest GB News viewership since its original opening night. For two whole hours between 7pm to 9pm, GB News beat the BBC’s average by 155,600 viewers to their 118,200, with Sky News some distance behind on 60,500. The interview reached 208,500 just after 7pm and held steady for the next hour. Nigel’s certainly earning his fee…
