America just pulled the plug on Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force press conference didn’t end until 8:01pm eastern time tonight. But the only way you’d know that was if you were watching it on Fox News, because by that time, every other major TV news network had long ago pulled the plug on the debacle. It marked a turning point in Trump’s increasingly surreal downfall.
Just how much of a debacle was this press conference? At one point Donald Trump began begging the doctor on stage to tell him when this crisis was going to start letting up, so the increasingly empty White House press briefing could have more reporters in it. Trump kept obsessing over the topic, making clear that he wasn’t merely using the empty seats as a microcosm for the entire nation being shut down; he really was that sad that he was playing to a smaller audience than his previous press briefings. For the record, that’s the moment when MSNBC finally pulled the plug.
The bottom line is that, aside from Trump’s remaining loyalists watching Fox News, no one in America wants to hear from this guy anymore. Major networks like CNN and MSNBC know that they risk taking major heat if they cut off the President of the United States during an emergency press conference and any meaningful number of their viewers end up disagreeing with the decision. So these networks must have known for sure today that their viewers no longer wanted to see this debacle.
Now that the seal has been broken, so to speak, and the networks are openly acknowledging that large chunks of Trump’s press conferences are of no use to the American public, we can expect the networks to keep cutting away from larger chunks each day until they’re no longer being aired at all. America just decided that it would rather have no President at all than continue to hear from this buffoon – which means it’s time for him to resign.
