It appears as though demagogue and virus super spreader Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump relied on his lucrative and symbiotic past relationship with and contacts at NBC once more, and they're more than eager to please him. In a surprise announcement this morning, NBC and their sister stations CNBC and MSNBC, announced that they were giving Trump 60 minutes of air time in a "town hall" setting hosted by that intrepid probing journalist Savannah Guthrie to run at the same time as the previously scheduled town hall on ABC with former VP Joe Biden. Assuming Trump asked both for a competing time slot and his choice of host, NBC has literally given him an hour of fact-checking free time. He doesn't have to talk over Biden in a debate now, he can just go to NBC for solo free time. It's also a rather stupid concession for NBC to make, because instead of getting both Biden and Trump voters to watch their town hall, they'll be getting half of what they could have if they had scheduled it on another night. So, Friday morning watch clips of Trump's infomercial if you must, but tune in to ABC tomorrow night for Joe Biden's town hall.
Employees at the NBC conglomerate are reportedly angry at their company's sabotage of the Biden town hall and at giving Trump a platform after he refused to participate in a Commission on Presidential Debates-sanctioned debate.
I've heard from over a dozen NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC sources (talent and staff) and the frustration with and anger toward their employer for scheduling a town hall against Biden is palpable.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 14, 2020
It’s a real shame how media outlets still cater to this man. You could have scheduled it any other time, but ratings is what it’s all about and unfortunately that’s a terrible trait to have in common with a so called president of the
— Darlene (@DarMV) October 14, 2020
United States.
I’m an avid and loyal viewer and am so disappointed you are rewarding @realDonaldTrump with this prime spot tomorrow night. I hope the ratings are worth the circus he will turn this town hall into.
— Michael Olenik (@michael_olenik) October 14, 2020
The competing time frame with the already-scheduled Biden town hall shows this event is meant to serve NBC News and not the public. It could have been put on a different night so people could watch both, live. Thumbs down.
— Myron B. Pitts ❄️ (@FOmyronpitts) October 14, 2020
You learned NOTHING from 2016. If this actually happens you will lose massive amounts of viewers forever. @CNN, here I come! #BoycottNBC
— Julie (@Manyakitty307) October 14, 2020
Won’t be watching. Shame on you. #ImRidingWithBiden
— Impeach Trump❄️ (@iamLucretiaMott) October 14, 2020
#BoycottNBC Trump refused to participate in a 2nd Debate with @JoeBiden, who was 100% ready to participate. #JoeBiden immediately decides to use that time to have #townhall on @ABC. Now, a very very desperate Trump wants to have a Town Hall at the same time & NBC agrees!! WTF!!
— Dan Pereira (@ddanpereira) October 14, 2020
I’ll be watching Biden on ABC.
— JoMo☕️ (@JoliMo44) October 14, 2020
So he pouted, backed out of the debate, but still craves the attention (and NBC wants the ratings), so he gets rewarded for behaving like a entitled brat?
— Information Junkie (@JustTheFacts37) October 14, 2020
I hold my kids to a higher standard. Terrible move NBC
Bad move on NBC's part. Debates are allegedly televised to inform voters. COVID-infected Trump chickened out of the remote debate the commission offered for the same night. He shouldn't be rewarded with a *competing* town hall.
— Betty Cracker 🐊 (@bettycrackerfl) October 14, 2020
This is embarrassing.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 14, 2020
@NBCNews You couldn't at least do it at a different time from the already scheduled town hall? You are now officially enablers of profound polarization. Congratulations. I normally watch NBC evening news but no more.
— V Sapiro (@VSapiro) October 14, 2020
Will Chuck Todd and Savanah Guthrie join Donald Trump in a “YMCA” dance at the end of the town hall while they all chant “four more years!”
— David Kuhne (@D_Khunne) October 14, 2020
That @NBCNews elected to attack on our democracy for ratings - AGAIN - by putting a Trump town hall directly against a Biden town hall, has 2 meanings: I'm done watching @NBC. And @SavannahGuthrie is despicable. She deserves a lifetime of condemnation. Let this haunt her career.
— Kurt "Mask Up, Vote Early" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 14, 2020
Trump would get an inordinate amount of glee if his NBC town hall beat Biden's in the ratings. That's all he wants out of this.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 14, 2020
