{"id":2345455,"date":"2024-09-24T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-gutfeld-appearance-draws-5-million-viewers-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:31:32","slug":"trumps-gutfeld-appearance-draws-5-million-viewers-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-gutfeld-appearance-draws-5-million-viewers-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Gutfeld! appearance draws 5 million viewers &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftrumps-gutfeld-appearance-draws-5-million-viewers-washington-examiner%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=2345455&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>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent guest appearance on Fox News&#8217; *Gutfeld!* attracted nearly 5 million viewers, marking the show&#8217;s highest ratings since its 2021\u200c debut. The episode included a significant audience \u2064share\u2064 of \u2064744,000\u2063 from the sought-after 25-54 age \u2063demographic. During the show, Trump expressed regret \u2063over not confronting ABC News moderators during \u200ba previous debate \u2063with Vice President Kamala Harris, \u2064wishing he had been less &#8220;elegant&#8221; in \u200bhis approach.\u2063 He also humorously mentioned a second assassination attempt while playing golf, \u2064highlighting the dangers of the sport. The episode&#8217;s viewership outperformed all other\u200c cable and broadcast \u2064programs that night, including\u200d the season \u200bpremiere\u2064 of CBS&#8217;s *Survivor.*  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump&rsquo;s Gutfeld! appearance draws 5 million viewers to top all prime-time shows<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1767835\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-trans-kids-are-beautiful-republicans-doing-a-lot-of-harm-to-children-advocates-biological-males-in-girls-sports\/\" title=\"AOC: Trans Kids Are Beautiful, Republicans \u2018Doing A Lot Of Harm To Children,\u2019 Advocates Biological Males In Girls Sports\">recent appearance<\/a> on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Gutfeld!<\/em> notched the program&rsquo;s best week with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>viewers<\/a> since its launch in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3159294\/trump-only-regret-debate-didnt-go-after-moderators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>appeared Wednesday on the late-night TV show<\/a>, drawing nearly 5 million viewers, including 744,000 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-beats-cnn-msnbc-combined-for-10th-straight-month\/\" title=\"Fox News Beats CNN &amp; MSNBC Combined For 10th Straight Month\">key 25-54 age demographic<\/a>, according to Nielsen data shared with the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While speaking with Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and his guests, Trump lamented that he did not &ldquo;go after&rdquo; ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis during his Sept. 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/debates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>debate<\/a>&nbsp;against Vice President Kamala Harris, noting that he instead tried to be &ldquo;elegant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think my only regret is that I wanted to be elegant, and I didn&rsquo;t want to go after the anchors,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;I wish I did, in a way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on <em>Gutfeld!, <\/em>Trump also joked about the second assassination attempt against him, in which a gunman nearly had a shot at the former president while he was playing golf.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I always said golf is a very dangerous game,&rdquo; Trump cracked.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gutfeld!&rsquo;s<\/em> Wednesday viewership topped all other cable and broadcast prime-time shows that day, defeating the season debuts of CBS&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Survivor<\/em>&nbsp;with 4.7 million viewers and ABC&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Golden Bachelorette <\/em>with 2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s appearance also helped <em>Gutfeld!<\/em> best the overall average viewership of its late-night TV competition last week, averaging 3.2 million viewers in comparison to CBS&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/em>, which had 1.9 million viewers, ABC&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>, which got 1.6 million, and NBC&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon<\/em>, which drew 1 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week&rsquo;s ratings follow <em>Gutfeld! <\/em>averaging 2.1 million viewers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3068686\/gutfeld-dominates-jon-stewart-daily-show-viewers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>lead all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comedienne-and-actress-judy-tenuta-dead-at-72\/\" title=\"Comedienne and Actress Judy Tenuta Dead at 72\">late-night talk shows<\/a> throughout the second quarter<\/a>. It also drew an average of 295,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic, which topped all cable news programs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gutfeld!&rsquo;s <\/em>second-quarter viewership quadrupled that of <em>The Daily Show<\/em> and more than doubled its 146,000 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2023-review-cnns-sour-ratings-and-lemon-drop-to-shuttering-atlanta-headquarters\/\" title=\"CNN&#039;s Atlanta headquarters to close due to declining ratings and departure of anchor Don Lemon in 2023\">25-54 key demographic<\/a> even after Jon Stewart&rsquo;s return as a part-time host.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1767835\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1767835\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s Gutfeld! appearance attracts 5 million viewers, topping prime-time shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2689,"featured_media":2345456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TrumpGutfeld3-1024x768.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[10892,4882,3634,8842],"class_list":["post-2345455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gutfeld","tag-ratings","tag-trump","tag-viewers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TrumpGutfeld3-1024x768.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}