ABC Claims Trump Is Treating Crisis Briefings Like a ‘Reality TV Show’

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 5, 2020
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ABC’s chief White House correspondent and White House Correspondents Association president, Jon Karl was the latest liberal journalist to decide they wanted to make a fat stack of cash by publishing a new anti-Trump book (Front Row at the Trump Show). As such, his Sunday appearance on Good Morning America was just another chance to hawk his product. He insisted President Trump was making a mockery of the coronavirus crisis and was using the daily press briefings as “a reality TV show.”

With no consideration to the fact that, as president, Trump needed to juggle warning Americans about the dire situation and keeping the nation’s spirits up, GMA co-anchor Dan Harris teed up Karl by huffing about Trump’s “mix of messages.” “[H]e's both warning us about the fact that we're going to see a lot of deaths, unfortunately, and musing about filling sports stadiums and church pews. Given your experience with the President, which you spell out in your new book, how do you compute this?”

Of course, the first thing Karl did was make a reference to his. Book. “Well, all of the aspects of the Trump show are on vivid display here, Dan. The President is center stage quite literally every day at those press conferences. Viewing them, acting as if this is almost like a reality TV show,” he asserted.

Talk about a title drop.

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