Trump Defends CNN Town Hall Because It Got 'Sky High Ratings'

[babylonsister]

OK, he is so ludicrous I had to laugh.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-defends-cnn-town-hall-because-it-got-sky-high-ratings?ref=home

Trump Defends CNN Town Hall Because It Got ‘Sky High Ratings’
‘VERY SMART’
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Published May. 12, 2023 7:51AM ET

Donald Trump hit back at people condemning CNN for allowing him to spew a torrent of lies across the airwaves on Wednesday night. “People are criticizing CNN for giving me a Forum to tell the TRUTH,” the former president wrote on his Truth Social platform on Thursday. “I believe it was a very smart thing that they did, with Sky High Ratings that they haven’t seen in a very long time. It was by far the biggest Show of the night, the week, and the month!” The network has been excoriated by people furious that it allowed Trump to repeat his falsehoods in front of an approving audience, with dissent even coming from CNN’s own on-air talent. But Trump dismissed the criticisms from what he saw as the “Radical Left” being upset that he made “so many important points.” “Many minds were changed on Wednesday night by listening to Common Sense, and sheer ‘Brilliance,’” he added.

[tenderfoot]

1. Sounds like early 1990s Howard Stern

going on about his ratings vs Don Imus.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Norma Desmond, transgendered

[Karadeniz]

3. Glad to hear many minds were changed....

[Blue Owl]

4. 3.5 million viewers is like 1% of the population, Donny

Not exactly what I'd call impressive....

[Botany]

5. The Ratings Are In: No One Really Watched CNN's Trump Town Hall

https://newrepublic.com/post/172682/ratings-no-one-really-watched-cnn-trump-town-hall

CNN’s decision to host a town hall with twice-impeached, criminally indicted, convicted sexual abuser Donald Trump did not pay off, with the event garnering just a mere fraction of the former president’s previous viewers.

The Wednesday night event was jam-packed with some of Trump’s greatest hits: lies, misogynistic attacks, election conspiracy theories, and insults leveled at anyone who tried to fact-check him. Countless people in the news media, including CNN employees, have slammed the town hall and the network for hosting it.

But even though many news outlets, The New Republic included, remain absolutely gobsmacked at the prime-time train wreck we witnessed Wednesday night, it turns out that not that many people witnessed it with us. The town hall averaged just 3.1 million viewers.

https://newrepublic.com/post/172682/ratings-no-one-really-watched-cnn-trump-town-hall

[AltairIV]

6. Not an outright lie, just not the truth

Jeopardy has higher ratings M-F, as do a host of other shows on broadcast TV.

[PortTack]

7. cnn will pay for this going forward! The majority of Americans are furious and will reward the

Channel appropriately!

[GreenWave]

8. So if we all watch the doomsday space object coming to destroy us...

by IQ 54's logic, that's a good thing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. President Biden's CNN Town Hall's ratings beat TFG's CNN Town Hall's ratings

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Trump bragged about 'sky high' ratings but his CNN town hall fell short of Biden's

This makes me smile

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bragged-about-sky-high-ratings-but-his-cnn-town-hall-fell-short-of-bidens/

Donald Trump on his Truth Social website bragged about the ratings for his CNN town hall.

“People are criticizing CNN for giving me a Forum to tell the TRUTH,” the former president wrote.

“I believe it was a very smart thing that they did, with Sky High Ratings that they haven’t seen in a very long time. It was by far the biggest Show of the night, the week, and the month!”

Perhaps so, but Wednesday night’s town hall attracted fewer viewers than Joe Biden’s 2020 CNN town hall and previous Trump events on Fox News, Salon reports.....

It ranked "2nd among total viewers, closely behind CNN's 2020 Joe Biden Town Hall (9/17/20, 7:59p-9:15p; 3.465 million)" according a network's rankings memo obtained by Salon.