{"id":1693105,"date":"2022-10-14T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1693105"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:42:38","slug":"trump-was-right-he-destroyed-late-night-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-was-right-he-destroyed-late-night-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Was Right: He \u201cDestroyed\u201d Late Night TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-was-right-he-destroyed-late-night-tv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1693105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><strong>Little known fact \u2013 Donald Trump has a knack for grandiosity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t mean the 45th president\u2019s boasts aren\u2019t occasionally on target.<\/p>\n<p>Trump once bragged the mainstream media needed him to survive. Those same outlets are still around, but their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/newsletters\/2021\/does-the-media-miss-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numbers are a far cry<\/a> from what they were during Trump\u2019s term in office. And don\u2019t even mention CNN+, which lasted all of one month before shuttering.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Trump had a point.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelist.com\/1047427\/donald-trump-takes-credit-for-destroying-late-night-tv\/?utm_campaign=clip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump\u2019s ego sharing a larger truth<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my great honor to have destroyed the ratings of Late Night \u2018Comedy\u2019 shows,\u201d Trump shared from his Truth Social perch. \u201cWhen Jimmy Fallon apologized for having humanized \u2018Trump,\u2019 and his ratings soared, the Radical Left forced him to apologize\u2014that was effectively the end of The Tonight Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More Trump hot air? Not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>The real estate mogul\u2019s 2016 \u201cTonight Show\u201d appearance, in which Fallon tousled Trump\u2019s hair, caused the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/media-bullied-fallon-hating-trump\/\">press to turn on the host<\/a>. The former \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star groveled for forgiveness. His show\u2019s hard-Left viewers weren\u2019t ready to make nice.<\/p>\n<p>They fled for more partisan programs like CBS\u2019s \u201cThe Late Show\u201d and ABC\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live.\u201d And, by the look of Fallon\u2019s current ratings, they never returned. A show that dominated late-night TV for decades is now a consistent fourth-place finisher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/jimmy-fallon-billionaire-bloomberg\/\"><strong>RELATED: FALLON SOLD HIS SOUL FOR BILLIONAIRE BLOOMBERG\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet Trump\u2019s impact on late-night television began before that \u201cTonight Show\u201d appearance. When Trump emerged as a credible threat to win the GOP primaries in 2016 late night hosts abandoned all pretense of objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Host after host turned their satirical guns on the brash mogul, ignoring Hillary Clinton as a potential butt of their jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Late-night television became a monolithic voice ready to stop Trump from ascending to the highest office in the land.<\/p>\n<p>They failed.<\/p>\n<p>So they did what most comic hosts should. They spent the next four years mocking Trump in every way possible. He was the president, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Except their \u201cOrange Man Bad\u201d gags quickly grew stale, much like previous \u201chorny\u201d Bill Clinton jokes in the 1990s. Hosts also squandered their trustworthiness by going \u201call in\u201d on the Russian collusion narrative, a corruption that left them buried by Fake News.<\/p>\n<p>No matter. Colbert and co. cared more about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=clapter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clapter<\/a>\u201d than penning funny bits.<\/p>\n<p>They also ignored any Democrat behaving badly during Trump\u2019s time in office. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s muddled hot takes? Never heard of her.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi\u2019s marble-mouthed gaffes? Get her on the show, stat, and we\u2019ll throw softball queries at her.<\/p>\n<p>Late Night TV branded itself part of The Resistance, alienating half the country in the process. Kimmel, when asked how he felt about losing Republican viewers, said, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/5612703584001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not good riddance, but riddance.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So when Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the various late-night shows couldn\u2019t course correct. They continued mocking Trump and other GOP figures (like Fox News superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/patriot-purge-review-tucker-carlson\/\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/late-night-hosts-biden-support\/\">ignoring the current Commander in Chief<\/a> and his gaffe-tastic Vice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little known fact \u2013 Donald Trump has a knack for grandiosity. It doesn\u2019t mean the 45th president\u2019s boasts aren\u2019t occasionally on target. Trump once bragged the mainstream media needed him to survive. Those same outlets are still around, but their numbers are a far cry from what they were during Trump\u2019s term in office. 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