Trump's Revenge
By: Bill O'ReillyOctober 16, 2022
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Trump's Revenge

Let's start off with a significant fact. The anti-Trump TV entertainers are failing.

Big.

About 74 million voters supported Donald Trump in 2020, more than any other Republican presidential candidate in history.

In short, a lot of folks.

It is beyond any reasonable doubt that most Trump voters do not appreciate being labeled racist, fascist, stupid, immoral, destructive, and evil.

But that's what the media continues to do. In Hollywood, if you are pro-Trump, you will find getting work difficult.

So, there is anger in the Trump precincts, and the "Great American Act Out" is underway. Anti-Trump entertainment vehicles are sinking faster than Joe Biden's poll numbers.

Late-night television is a vivid example. All the network hosts are Trump critics. So, good chance that 74 million Americans are not fans. Let's deal with the situation factually.

On CBS, Stephen Colbert is a liberal activist proudly in bed with the Democratic Party. Therefore, non-Dems are not likely to watch. Also, Colbert is not particularly funny, so why stay up late with him?

Colbert savaged then-President Trump, but since he left office, old Steve has lost about a third of his audience, sometimes losing in the ratings to Greg Gutfeld, the late-night guy on Fox News. That's embarrassing for a network show.

Jimmy Kimmel on ABC/Disney is Colbert light. He despises Trump and has lost nearly 40 percent of his audience in six years.

NBC is widely considered the most blatant "hate Trump" organization, but Jimmy Fallon is not really into politics, preferring music and frat housing around. Nevertheless, Fallon has lost 60 percent of his audience over the past few years.

The other NBC late-night guy, Seth Meyers, has dropped from 1.5 million watchers in 2016 to 786,000 today.

Johnny Carson often did nine million daily viewers for NBC. I know, different times. A liberal man, Carson did not impose his personal politics on his audience and therefore had a full playing field available to him.

Finally, it looks like it's all over for Saturday Night Live. The program has dropped below four million viewers, down from almost 13 million in its heyday.

The Alec Baldwin-Trump imitation was largely nasty, unlike SNL parodies of past presidents. Millions of Americans noticed and tuned out.

So, somewhere on his Palm Beach estate, Donald Trump is having a measure of payback. Late-night network talk TV is not coming back, and SNL won't either. Liberal politics have killed the golden goose.

It's simple: There is no one who can make late-night comedy great again.