Imagine a boxing match of celebrities in which two rich, old overweight boxers are endlessly circling, trying to strike at each other. But here the currency is power and vanity, not blood. Or not * their * blood anyway.
Morgan’s great assessment – that Trump is likely to run again in 2024 – was already the worst kept secret in the world.
Although the former Fleet Street editor has become a professional irritant, the self-proclaimed scourge of the Awakened is actually an excellent interrogator.
Exchanging their former acquaintance, he asked Trump questions no one else could or would have asked about his false allegations of rigged elections, the Capitol uprising, and whether he had ever threatened a rival power with nuclear weapons.
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Trump is simply dancing, meowing cowardly evasions that will inflame his base, inflate his brand, but leave room for him to escape (as he did when confronted with his praise of Vladimir Putin’s “genius” strategy in Ukraine).
Trump offered blatant praise and shiny insults to Biden, Merkel and Johnson, which will be included in the headlines, but were as predictable as they were empty.
The interview, broken into pieces, between which Morgan stood up and boasted about the upcoming “explosive” revelations, took up two-thirds of the one-hour show.
The rest consisted of Pierce, who promised to be a defender of the “truth” against the “illiberal liberals”, “abolished the Crusaders” expelling the Inquisition “and” ideological imperialists waving their forks “(he is a good author of blunders, to be honest).
This seems to include, above all, that Pierce is renewing his feud with Megan Markle and Prince Harry and is struggling with the sensitivity that is desperately needed when discussing the rights of transgender people.
But how would you criticize “hypocritical celebrities preaching about the inequality of their massive mansions” – illustrated with a photo of Prince Harry – when you signed a three-year £ 50 million deal to present a TV show called Piers Morgan Uncensored and write columns for The sun? How can you complain about this huge platform that you were “canceled” when you gave up GMB after being politely challenged by a forecaster?
How, then, do you position yourself as a stern inquisitor of the Great Orange Liar, on television, while suggesting that the liberal establishment is drowning them both out?
As Danny Dyer put it so eloquently, it confuses me. But the satire died a long time ago, so it doesn’t matter that the set, graphics and section called “The World’s Gone Nuts” look like they were cut by Armando Yanucci.
In his second show, Morgan will proudly treat Trump’s departure from him as a triumph of journalism and will talk to Sharon Osbourne on the TV channel they both work about because he was canceled because of Megan Markle. This is Bizarro TV. Will it work. Unfortunately, probably yes.
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