Trump's low-ratings Newsmax interview proves his 'grip on our attention has collapsed': columnist

[marmar]

Writing for the Washington Post on Tuesday, reporter Phil Bump noted that former President Donald Trump has gone out with more of a whimper than a bang.

Calling into Newsmax on Tuesday, the old president complained about whatever happened to be bothering him today. At one point, he complained that he doesn't even know what he's watching anymore when he turns on a baseball game. Trump played baseball in high school and even went so far as to claim that he was almost recruited into the pros, despite issues hitting the ball.

"There's still an audience for this, of course," wrote Bump. "There is still a large group of people eager to hear what he has to say, people who would have come across his Newsmax appearance with the same giddiness as Nelson Muntz stumbling upon an Andy Williams performance. It remains important that Trump is still pushing the same untrue claims about the election (Did you know that Georgians voted for Democratic Senate candidates in January because they were mad Trump lost?) and that there are still people hearing and believing them."

Bump said that after Trump announced he was running for president in 2015, he sucked all of the air out of the news. "But, five years later, we tend to lose sight of how remarkable that ascent was." ............(more)

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-low-ratings-newsmax-interview/

[PortTack]

1. Best news of the day!

[SCantiGOP]

2. I saw this article yesterday

One great comment on the story:
This would be like the Beatles re-forming ten years after their breakup, and the best booking they can get is the 5:30 slot at the State Fair.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. To this day, people don't grasp the importance of Twitter for him

He would not have won the Republican nomination without Twitter, he cannot keep being relevant without it. It was the perfect outrage vehicle for him to make the news daily in 140 characters. He was a master at changing the topic using Twitter. And the media ate it all up.

Without it, he's lost. And although he's getting Youtube and Facebook back soon, he'll never get Twitter back and I doubt anything replaces it for him soon.