Jimmy Kimmel Twists the Knife as Trump TV Flops
The Daily Beast/YouTube/Reuters Jimmy Kimmel has exposed just how spectacularly Trump’s TV network is failing.
After banning Politico, CNN, and MS NOW from the White House in a flagrant assault on the First Amendment, the president found himself without cameras trailing him .
As a bizarre contingency plan, the 80-year-old president and former reality TV star launched a 24/7 TV channel, livestreaming the White House and his public appearances.
But as the Daily Beast found , Trump TV lost a whopping 95 percent of its viewership in just three days—and hardly anyone was watching it in the first place.
Kimmel displayed the report on Wednesday night in a scathing exposé of the president.
“It peaked with an audience of about 8,500 people on Monday night.
By this morning, they were down to fewer than 500 viewers,” Kimmel said, citing the Daily Beast.
“The only channel doing worse is the Strait of Hormuz,” he quipped.
The late-night host and Trump nemesis continued, “But don’t worry.
The channel is young.
It’s new.
And our celebrity president is putting together a line of tippy-top-notch programming that’ll have the MAGA faithful tuning in with ratings bigger than the Super Bowl and two other Super Bowls combined.” Jimmy Kimmel Live! then displayed a fake list of series and films coming to Trump TV, such as The All-White Lotus , Survivor: Epstein Island , Pimp My Reflecting Pool , My Two Idiot Sons , and Orange Is the New President.
“Streaming exclusively on your grandpa’s Dell computer,” an announcer on the trailer declared.
“Trump TV is must-see TV.
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