Fat former President Trump’s still-in-flux plan to “counter-program” next month’s RNC primary debate could end up settling on a lame interview on the former chief Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson’s low-rated Twitter show, Vanity Fair reports, adding that it was Trump’s idea.
It’s a natural fit for the two “iconoclasts” trying to stick it to the Murdochs and the GOP establishment just because they can. The problem is that by not being on actual television, Trump isn’t going to get nearly as much exposure as he would have if he had simply decided to go on Newsmax or OAN. It won’t stop him from claiming however many tens of millions of “views” the Tucker video clip gets brought him a bigger audience than the debate, but this is one of those things that actually sort of matters. What better way for the RNC to have Fox News viewers imagine a party without Trump than to show them a primary debate stage without Trump on it?