President Trump has tweeted a verdict about the recent Emmy Awards, which aired on CBS last Sunday and reached 11.38 million viewers - a number that tied the ceremony with last year’s previous all-time low for show.
“I was saddened to see how bad the ratings were on the Emmys last night — the worst ever,” Trump wrote on September 19. “Smartest people of them all are the ‘DEPLORABLES.'”
As Entertainment Weekly noted, “attacks on Trump himself was a common theme throughout the show.”
On Monday, one day after the Emmys, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway criticized the Emmys and celebrities for lecturing the audience about the president — and noted that Americans were “tuning out” as a result.
“Because they want you to stick to your knitting. They want you to, I guess in this case, read the stuff other people write for you,” she told Fox News. “So they’re welcome to their opinion but how does it really fit? I get that feeling of the old Sesame Street song: One of these things does not belong here. It was on and on and on. I think it’s this culture of sameness that I talk about. Look at the Media Research Center NewsBusters’ analysis recently, where 91 percent — 91 percent! — of the coverage about President Trump in the summer was negative. It felt the same last night watching it.”
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